Sentences with phrase «secure university places»

The World Challenge expedition has aided my students in learning skills that will not only strengthen personal growth, but will also help secure university places and impress future employers.

As thousands of students pick up their A-level results today, analysts are expecting many to fail to secure a university place, as a small army of school - leavers skip the gap year in order to attend university before higher tuition fees hit next year.

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

The pressure to secure a university place is higher than ever this year.

Not exact matches

The colleges and universities were intended as the original confident and secure places for Catholic projection onto the American scene.

Since it sees the mandate as a relationship between the bishop and the theologian rather than the university, the Bevilacqua proposal also places the responsibility for securing the mandate on the Catholic theologian, not on the university.

Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by edward haviland miller university of iowa press, 596 pages, $ 35 Jefferson's public career focused on securing for Americans,» the historian Edmund S. Morgan has written, «a right of expatriation from the past.»

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

Over 275,000 students who applied to enter university this year are yet to secure a place, latest figures show.

«Disproportionately, young people from ordinary families will dominate amongst those students who will lose out on a university place and who will not be able to secure a job to tide them over until next year.

With thousands of students skipping their gap years to grab a university place before tuition fees rise, 673,000 students are trying to secure one from only 350,000 university places available this year.

The University's vision is to secure a place among the world's top 50 by 2015.

Here, five Stanford University scientists reveal 10 tips from their own experiences when attempting to secure a place

The University may place a Postdoctoral Scholar on investigatory leave with pay without prior written notice in order to review or investigate allegations of misconduct or dereliction of duty, which warrant immediately relieving the Postdoctoral Scholar from all work duties and / or require removing the Postdoctoral Scholar from the premises and securing University resources.

Set on following my dreams, I secured a place at University and worked my way through to complete my degree.

It's great to see so many students securing a place at university, improving their career chances and delivering the skills our economy needs.»

He said: «I'm absolutely thrilled to have secured a place at Loughborough University.

In light of these results, our students have already secured places at some of the top universities in the country and we all share their feelings of relief and delight.

«Well done to all those students who have worked so hard to get their results and secure their place at university or college.

High - performing Sharnbrook Upper School is celebrating record A level results today — with students achieving outstanding grades and many securing places at some of the world's best universities.

«Our sixth form is committed to supporting our students achieving the very best results possible, including navigating the university application process so that they can secure places at Russell Group universities, including Oxbridge.

Beth Rounding — who achieved three A * grades and an A * for her Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), which secured her a place at Warwick University to read Psychology

A strong focus on STEM subjects has consistently helped students at this school secure places at top universities.

«Our long - term economic plan is delivering world class schools and ensuring young people have the skills they need to secure a good job, an apprenticeship or a place at university.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

«He was very able, looking forward to GCSE results at a very high level and very capable of going on to achieve the kind of grades which would have secured him a place at any one of our best universities.»

«I secured a place at the University of Bristol to read law and subsequently also completed my Legal Practice Course there.

In 2012, she was awarded a scholarship grant to pursue her postgraduate study in law at Singapore Management University where she secured a place in the Dean's List.

For those lawyers who still believe the most secure place to store their client information is in their heads, there's an inexpensive technological device being developed through the University of California and the University of Oxford in Geneva which allows users to hack directly into someone's brain.

Our writers have produced thousands of successful resumes for people worldwide and helped them with securing either a job position or a place in a college or university programme.