Sentences with phrase «most academic students»

«I'm very aware that the best known private schools do a lot of work to prepare their most academic students to apply for Oxford and Cambridge,» said former education minister, Stephen Twigg.

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«The academics at Truman definitely keep students busy but aren't unmanageable especially with a staff that is, for the most part, open and more than willing in aiding in student success.»

Federal student loans have many advantages over private loans, and in most cases a borrower should extinguish all available federal loans for any given academic year before relying on private loans.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

The colleges and universities might well be writing the death warrants of their own credibility through the increasingly childish and irrelevant ravings of their most notorious academics and students — but they were never where the real danger lay.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

Older students» previous academic work often has not been strong or is not the most helpful preparation for theological study.

Fisher: Because students frequently change their subjects of academic interest, I think it's most important for students to consider the academic philosophy of the institutions to which they intend to apply.

Recent surveys indicate that most students do not regard cheating as a serious offense, and that many accept it without difficulty as one of the tools of academic success.

In the United States most colleges require that students be exposed to a spread of courses, introducing them to a range of academic disciplines, but students are soon able to order most of their work to their anticipated jobs.

As most professors will tell you, today's student culture is fixated on identity politics and is terrified of anything less than an «A.» In sum: diversity and academic achievement, with «merit» defined as the maximization of both.

They hurt not only other academics, but ruin student careers too — the most deplorable thing to see.

We believe that these are the most critical years in a child's development, when we can help establish a cultural identity and academic foundation that will allow students to flourish in high school and beyond.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

Most school breakfast programs were created to assist low - income families, but many school officials now view a nutritious breakfast as an academic tool for all students, as valuable to learning as computers and textbooks.

Most academic studies find that teachers account for between 1 percent and 14 percent of variability in student test scores, while Cuomo wants to base 50 percent of teacher evaluations on test scores.

Dr. Gall is a retired college administrator who most recently served as Dean of Students and Academic Services at CUNY's New York City College of Technology (City Tech).

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

While the speech was undoubtedly lengthy and did contain some words of praise for this most «noble» of professions, its real agenda was buried within the rhetoric, «idealistic» students being encouraged by leftist academics to view the people they work with as «victims of social injustice» who are to be pandered to.

GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the fee hike in some Nigerian public universities which is posing a threat to the academic sojourn of most students It was like a nightmare when Bowale Aderemi (not real name) heard that the N25, 000 tuition fee he normally pays at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, was no -LSB-...]

He recalled with nostalgic feelings the combative exploits of the National Democratic Coalition, Civil Liberties Organisation, Academic Staff Union of Universities and students» protest that led to the positive changes in the country, most especially during the military era.

However, part of the explanation could also lie in the city's curious demographics, which include an unusually high proportion of students (most of whom will have been at home elsewhere for the summer vacation) and academics (most of whom will have been in Tuscany.

We hope to begin construction soon on a new academic building on the North Campus, the one that most students from Grand Island and the Tonawandas attend.

It would be wrong however to characterise this seat as being made up of academic quadrangles, ivory towers and Guardian reading students — most people here are not students.

Four years later, UFT Community Learning Schools (CLS) are helping students succeed, with the schools in the CLS initiative the longest showing the most academic growth.

Most academics in the sciences contribute to their fields by building research groups, populated with staff and students.

And since the mother language of most PhD students is not English, well, they want to get better at academic writing as non-native English speakers.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

The real problem is that most students (of all ethnic backgrounds) are turned off academic careers long before they complete their doctorates.

Are most of the members of the academic staff active in research (i.e., do they have research students or staff, and are they still publishing)?

Here's the result that has gotten the most press: Academic research careers were less popular with the late cohorts than the early ones in all disciplines, suggesting, perhaps, that graduate students are disillusioned by exposure to the lives and careers of their faculty advisers.

The failure to diversify the faculties and student populations in most earth and space science departments suggests that there may be prohibitive barriers, inappropriate pedagogical practices, or insensitive policies that make the academic environment unattractive to underrepresented groups.

Most of Davidar's former students work in conservation, although some are academic biologists.

Dickensheets has found his experience with commercial instruments to be beneficial, and like most academics in engineering today, trains his students to be practical problem - solvers.

But, just like other academic scientists, they also publish their research in peer - reviewed journals, and most supervise research students and do other forms of university - level teaching.

We found that, while most students were intent on an academic career when they entered graduate school, most were also aware that the majority of graduates pursued other opportunities.

We found that, while most students were intent on an academic career when they entered graduate school, most were also aware that the majority of the graduates pursued other opportunities.

For decades, trainees — graduate students and postdocs — have performed most of the day - to - day work of academic science.

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

In a comparison of American, Dutch, Israeli, and Russian students headed by economist Jan Magnus of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, Americans proved the least tolerant of academic dishonesty and Russians were the most tolerant.

Students also used «brilliant» and «genius» to describe their professors most often in academic fields such as philosophy and physics, in which women and African - American students are a distinct minority, StoraStudents also used «brilliant» and «genius» to describe their professors most often in academic fields such as philosophy and physics, in which women and African - American students are a distinct minority, Storastudents are a distinct minority, Storage said.

An analysis of more than 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessors.com, where students write anonymous reviews of their professors, found that students most often use the words «brilliant» and «genius» to describe male professors and in academic disciplines in which women and African - Americans are underrepresented.

About 50 % are foreigners and 80 % work in university settings, where their status is most likely to be uncertain; although postdocs in industry and government labs tend to fit smoothly into existing job categories, academic postdocs may work in situational limbo, being neither faculty, staff, nor students.

He found that the money did not make much of a difference in the academic achievement of the students most likely to be affected.

The number of applications and the academic competitiveness of a school's incoming class were increased by making the lists for Happy Students (2.9 percent increase) or Most Beautiful Campus (2.3 percent increase), whereas applications and competitiveness were negatively affected by being on the Least Happy Students (about a 5 percent decrease) or Unsightly, Tiny Campus lists (5.2 percent decrease).

«Dr. Axelrod is one of our most popular teachers, sought after by graduate students because of her dedication to mentoring students throughout their academic careers,» says Sherman Wilcox, chair of the Department of Linguistics there.

Most graduate students and postdocs have a narrow window of opportunity to succeed in landing an academic or industrial position.

Review: Chemistry and the construction of life — A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets.

The academic employment prospects for people with PhDs vary by subject, but in most Humanities and Social Science subjects the situation is grim even for the very best students.