Sentences with phrase «academic route»

The Government will fail many of our young people if it does not provide a high - quality alternative to traditional academic routes.

If you're not the entrepreneurial, risk - taking type, you can pursue a more standard academic route.

She had no intention of following a traditional «publish or perish» academic route where «most researchers don't ever come out of the lab and interact with the community,» she says.

The Strategy — developed in partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and co-ordinated through an expanded role for the Careers and Enterprise Company — will help young people choose the career that is right for them, alongside the # 500 million investment in new T levels to deliver a world - class technical education system on par with the high - quality academic routes available.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: «Our school leavers now have a widening range of opportunities available - from industry - led technical professional options to long standing well - established academic routes.

New York City's selective career / tech high schools, Delaware's Sussex Tech, and career academies in various urban areas show how students can benefit from this alternative to the usual academic route.

Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton said he was concerned to see a decline in the pass rate overall and feared that this may be the result of driving children down this narrow academic route.

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), there are generally three different academic routes prospective RNs may choose from in order to earn the training they will need to prepare for the NCLEX - RN and eventually secure a job.

Alongside FE, Universities will have role partly to give parity with more academic routes and partly to give a route to higher education for vocational courses that had not previously had access to HE.

Labour leader warns that «forgotten 50 %» of young people who choose not to follow a traditional academic route are at risk

If in the end the student feels that it is logistically more feasible or even more desirable to pursue another academic route, sometimes that is the best for that particular student at that time, and as a mentor, you have no choice but to support the student in that decision.

Students who want to do a teaching internship, for example, could emphasize how the experience will allow them to improve their communication and presentation skills, which will be valuable if they end up deciding to take the academic route, he says.

At first Gray, who studies tumor - fighting nanoparticles, planned to follow an academic route.

In the case of two black colleagues who also chose the academic route, they returned to their undergraduate HBCU alma maters.

For some, the decision to follow an academic route within a government research institute is a tough one: many of my fellow earth science graduates secured high - flying, well - paid jobs in the petroleum industry before their studies were even complete.

I'm doing a clinical research, writing grants, writing papers, and going down the academic route, but I care so much about the world that I'm also teaching the public, doing TED Talks, creating a website, writing books, and giving the public the same tools that I'm researching and letting them know, «Here's the science behind why I've designed it this way and why I'm doing the science this way.»

Launched in January by Prime Minister Theresa May, the strategy includes plans for a radical overhaul of technical education to address its historical undervaluation in the UK and provide a credible alternative to the academic route for young people who choose not to go to university.

According to the most recent data, 81 percent of high school students are taking an academic route; only 19 percent are «concentrating» in CTE (which means earning at least three credits in a single CTE program area).

On opportunities for young people, Neil said: «This is an exciting and, often, daunting moment for young people and there is a fantastic array of options available that act as a springboard to a good career, from technical and vocational qualifications to academic routes.

The research also found that by age 15 or 16 the aspiration to go to university made a large difference to A-level choices, with three quarters of those who felt they were not at all likely to go to university choosing to not continue onto an academic route.

«It could reduce drop - out rates at age 16 and age 17 from both vocational and academic routes.

The news comes as critics have argued that the curriculum is a reflection of the government's «obsession with a narrow set of subjects in a rigid framework» and is likely to damage the chances of young people who do not follow an academic route into work.

We also need to show students how and where to use it, which for a great deal of students could mean going on to an apprenticeship or employment rather than following a traditional academic route.

Analysing gender, the report found that: boys were significantly less likely to have continued onto an academic route post 16 than girls; the absence of KS5 data is especially evident for disadvantaged boys, as almost 60 per cent of the disadvantaged boys in this sample did not continue on an academic route; and that disadvantaged boys were almost three times less likely to go on to enter four or more AS - level exams or to enter three or more A-level exams than other more advantaged boys.

Despite the UK's academic route being held in the highest esteem worldwide, technical and vocational education falls towards the bottom of the global league.

Dick and Meg with their son on the steps of their Chauncy Street apartment in 1962 Growing up in the rural town of Chazy in upstate New York, less than 10 miles from the Canadian border, Richard «Dick» Dodds, M.A.T.» 62, relied on financial help to pursue his educational goals — an academic route that eventually led to the Ed School and, later, to a sabbatical at Oxford.

Growing up in the rural town of Chazy in upstate New York, less than 10 miles from the Canadian border, Richard «Dick» Dodds, M.A.T.» 62, relied on financial help to pursue his educational goals — an academic route that eventually led to the Ed School and, later, to a sabbatical at Oxford.

Skills minister, Anne Milton commented: «I want to see everyone whatever their background, wherever they live to have a chance to get a rewarding career or job in engineering whether they come via a technical or academic route.

Some may choose an academic route, while others may go for a vocational course.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said: «David Cameron's government has damaged school standards by allowing unqualified teachers into the classroom, pressing ahead with the failing free schools programme and having no plan for the forgotten 50 % of young people - those young people who do not wish to pursue the traditional academic route.»

It's heartening to hear that the government is to provide a high - status alternative (to academic routes) from education to employment.

New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can «move around» between vocational and academic routes to keep their options open, a leading...

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the English Baccalaureate «reinforces the idea that anything other than a traditional academic route is the poor relation».

New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can «move around» between vocational and academic routes to keep their options open, a leading Conservative MP has said.

If you choose the academic route, select a school that has experience placing service dogs with disabled people.

He has rejected the academic route of organized institutions, through self taught methods and a non traditional approach.

If you chose to go down the academic route, salaries are comparable to other lecturers and teachers in the same institution.