Sentences with phrase «bigger than academic»

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With amiable charm and a refreshing lack of pretense, Professor Tim Clydesdale has penned a more - than - hopeful volume with the message that the Big Questions can be back on the academic table.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

The biggest tragedy of Labour's tuition fees is that they were introduced without any mechanism to make sure they produced a better deal for students, rather than leaking out into things like the unreformed pensions of baby - boomer academics.

Although government, industry, and academic commitment to cooperation has more than once proved to be a powerful force for science and scientists, if and when it might return is the biggest question of all.

Germany is a much bigger market than the Netherlands, and the current negotiations may be European academics» best shot at the big flip.

I know that at Middlebury College where I teach [elite students at], a wonderful academic institution, graduates [every year] more than a handful of kids whose biggest desire is to go start farming some place.

Since its creation in 2002, more than 1300 mouse models were done for our customers: academic labs, European Union or big pharmaceutical groups.

The National Board of Review, a collection of film enthusiasts and academics founded in 1909, is better known for packing its annual awards dinner (to be hosted by Willie Geist on January 9) with big names than for predicting Oscars.

«This is bigger than the social studies curriculum or the academic mission.

They mistrust claims of voluntarism and find the potential loss of state sovereignty a bigger threat to America's educational wellbeing than today's uneven standards and slipshod academic performance.

Sean explained, «The utility of perceived conscientiousness in predicting how well students do aligns with other research showing that it is how hard students work, rather than their IQ, that is the best predictor of academic grades, but the bigger story is that there is no accuracy at all unless you control for attractiveness bias.»

«They learn that knowledge is bigger than just academic classes.»

However, research by economists Stephen Cameron and James Heckman suggests that the real problem may be that poor children simply don't do as well in school, a somewhat discouraging conclusion since sending families bigger checks to help with college is arguably easier than improving academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.

That figure was more than all other Big Ten Conference institutions combined, with the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor placing two academics in the top 50 and Northwestern one.

raised graduation rates by more than 60 %, and had the biggest academic improvement of any large school system in California.

She certainly knows that poverty is a significantly bigger barrier to academic achievement than the barriers she identified Tuesday.

When you look at academic and professional publishing, Amazon may actually be an even bigger player than with trade publishing due to the lack of retail sales space compared to that for mainstream books.

But your point raises the question of why the academics who run the state - funded granting agencies favour the «luvly models run on big, all flashing, computers» rather than the run - of - the - mill scientist working «in the peace and comfort of his own little lab.»

Sykes, who studied law at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and Dalhousie University, spent more than six years at the big law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP before moving to the academic world.

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