Sentences with phrase «by university admissions officers»

«It is wholly unfair of the minister to try to blame schools for the consequences of decisions taken by university admissions officers.

Not exact matches

A former Penn admissions officer who shared excerpts from applicants» essays on her personal Facebook page is no longer employed by the University.

Two and a half years ago, I had a child applying to college and was told by an admissions officer at one of the University of California campuses that they expected 8 to 13 AP courses for applicants who could expect to be successful in the quest for admission.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Some colleges have incorporated social media into their recruiting efforts by launching Facebook applications (see Plattsburgh State University's page) and MySpace profiles (such as the University of Scranton's), but because those sites were designed for communication among friends, many students don't feel comfortable interacting with college admissions officers there.

Furthermore, back in January 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report with recommendations endorsed by a who's who of deans, admissions officers and education experts representing all eight Ivies, as well as a host of other prestigious universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and even a few of the nation's top high schools.

Last year, LA Unified's Chief Academic Officer Frances Gipson said that California's public universities had approved the online credit recovery courses provided by Edgenuity and others as acceptable for admission.

The SAT is used by U.S. universities to help evaluate more than a million college applicants a year, and so a major security lapse could cause havoc for admissions officers and students alike.