Sentences with phrase «because of my academic background»

Perhaps this is because of my academic background and work experience.

Another need that he said he recognizes because of his academic background, first at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later at Dartmouth, is to expand access to and improve education in developing countries.

I have always loved art and because of my academic background decided I would retrain as an art historian, with a view to eventually setting up my own gallery.

Not exact matches

David Cameron's bid to improve his party's elitist image by introducing an «A-list» in 2010 largely failed because of his own background, an academic has claimed.

Whilst I certainly want far more local candidates and working class candidates selected by Labour, I won't write off Ed Miliband purely because he comes from a reasonably comfortable background (and I wouldn't exaggerate the riches of those on academic salaries either).

As a high school student, I continued to try to find the best path for personal development, but because of my background I was not looked upon as an outstanding academic prospect for college.

Because students from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to be more affected by a change in peer groups through day - to - day interaction with academically inclined peers and academic groups, there may be a greater effect of university education on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

He was a good match, he believes, because of his academic research background in pharmacology and his experience as a research professor at that institution.

«Even though my personal background differed in many ways to that of the Columbia students, who tend to come from the suburbs with highly educated professional parents, those students were very welcoming because they saw academic linkages.»

We're not really sure why that is the case, it may well just be because people who come from deprived backgrounds tend to have a lower baseline in terms of academic performance and therefore it's sort of easier to raise that.

MDRC has previously released two reports on these «small schools of choice,» or SSCs (so called because they are small, are academically nonselective, and were created to provide a realistic choice for students with widely varying academic backgrounds).

One recent analysis had to discard 75 % of its research because it had failed to account for differences between the backgrounds and academic histories of pupils attending the schools.

School district leaders and state education chiefs have been trying to figure this out for years now, especially because research shows that having a teacher from similar demographic backgrounds has social and academic benefits for students, most of whom are nonwhite.

He felt I brought a different dimension to the practice because of my academic and government background.

These lawyers trusted Ms. Willis because of her impressive background, professional experience, and academic achievements.

Because a fit model's responsibilities don't require a background of academic knowledge, the sample relies on one detail from the candidate's high school education.

Yet, because children's academic functioning interacts with other factors (e.g., children's temperament, family background and cultural tradition), preschool programs that rely on custom - designed curriculum tend to provide better outcomes as they integrate different types of approaches and take into account children's emerging aptitudes.