Sentences with phrase «on academic rigour»

Whilst the school will focus on academic rigour it will also provide the opportunity to follow a more vocational route.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

Not exact matches

Newman wanted his new Catholic university to incorporate the strengths of Oxford, with its academic rigour and emphasis on the cultivation of the intellect and its historic religious (albeit by now Protestant) life.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

All our qualifications and modules are based on a set of key principles which take account of the needs of leaders and the education system; draw on the very best international research and evaluation evidence; ensure both academic rigour and leadership practice; involve leaders in the creation of materials; and provide opportunities for modules to be adapted to reflect different contexts.

«Later tunings are on the detailed plan and are used to interrogate practicalities, iron out concerns, and ensure academic rigour.»

The harsh reality is that this new emphasis on increased academic rigour and memorising ever increasing amounts of information has been targeted at the most distracted generation.

These two issues include a call from the legal profession for students that are better prepared in their academic training to take on the rigours of practice and a call from the community at large for the cost effective delivery of legal services.

Powered by his academic rigour, out of the box approach, productive investment paranoia and focus on historical patterns, Turr has been publicly commenting since 2008 on macro-economic trends.