Sentences with phrase «than academics»

This work is about more than academic achievement — school communities have the potential to be transformative for students and staff beyond the walls of the school.

Evidence confirms that student skills other than academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes.

Particularly when prestige, enormous signing deals and outrageous salaries make winning in the sports arena more appealing than academic achievements.

Commercial awareness, strong communication skills and, in some cases, foreign language fluency, may be more important than academic qualifications.

Getting a job is about more than academic performance.

In the fast - changing 21st century, our children need even more than academic skills and knowledge.

The free school is unusual for focusing on vocational rather than academic qualifications, as these are typically provided in further education sector.

Those that did large amounts of industrial rather than academic research said they received less money than they deserved.

Thus, measurement of mass balance is of more than academic interest.

They turn their noses up at young people who take the occupational route, rather than the academic one.

Success in life depends on more than academic learning.

What do you consider to be your most significant achievement other than your academic results?

Students are more than their academic grades — you know it and their parents know it.

It takes more than academic ability to impress graduate employers.

The report cited that private school students may have lower incentives to perform well at university and therefore are more likely to invest more effort in social life rather than academic work.

You don't always need a 2.1 or a first; many employers will accept 2.2 s because they are typically more interested in your skills and experience than your academic results.

Your hiring manager would want to know more about your performance, job roles, and responsibilities maintained rather than your academic degree.

Here, students are given more than academic school education.

The process offers a dynamically different way of conducting research, and of bringing it to a much wider audience than an academic publication could.

Earlier we read that engineers (all branches) are generally more skeptical of this premise than academic scientists.

Cost values reported by private companies tend to be lower than academic estimates, though there is no a prior reason to believe that either is inherently biased.

Unfortunately for him, the local university is more of a playground than an academic institution.

It is all about presenting solutions to practical problems, rather than an academic study of the subject.

We know that there is more at stake for our students than their academic performance alone and we understand our responsibility in recognizing and supporting the whole child.

Some scientists mistakenly believe that start - up biotechnology employers have fewer political players than academic labs or larger corporations; I can tell you this isn't true.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

This was obviously not from any lack of scholarly ability on his part, but rather from his prior decision to pursue pastoral ministry rather than an academic career.

On climate change, the researchers found that political identity was a more important signal of where respondents stood than their academic acumen or scientific sophistication.

It is important to recognize first of all the mission of schools is bigger than academic preparation.

And remember — by the time you have completed a piece of business documentation, you will most likely have learned much more about the process than your academic employers.

Members complete the full application process just once rather than every academic year.

If the professor does make a profit on her work — a best - selling book rather than an academic article, say — she may qualify as self - employed.

Employers who review this kind of resume typically see a candidate who would rather focus on workplace accomplishments than academic accomplishments.

Early child education is more about social and emotional development than academic.

Though it might appear at first glance that native studies is more important than academics at these schools, it is not.

Students using vouchers experience academic losses that are larger than the academic gains experienced by students not using vouchers.

Anyone with a modem is free to call, and most are far easier to use than the academic networks.

No Child Left Behind emphasized academic proficiency, test scores from a single moment in time, rather than academic growth.

She looks at the students as whole people, and at this stage she is focused more on social and emotional skills, rather than academic milestones.

To accomplish this, your child will need to learn skills in more than the academic areas.

This system has for decades produced many more Ph.D. s than the academic labor market can absorb.

Some sought a sense of comfort and a welcoming atmosphere rather than academic rigor.

Yet, in her conclusions, she overlooks several important additional considerations as to why think tank work may receive more coverage than academic research.

While she has published extensively in scholarly journals, her new book reads more like a self - help volume than an academic one.

But we'll also be looking at, other than the academic outcomes, general health and wellbeing measures and also sleep measures.

Clearly this definition is much broader than the academic focus of our current accountability system.