Sentences with phrase «traditional academic science»

But he also feels that there is no going back to traditional academic science.

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It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.'s controversial blood - testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the science behind the claims that the startup could do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.

And where custom dictates that for the sake of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other human science) has a genuine right to autonomous existence.

Our task is to rediscover the theological dimension of the world, a dimension removed from it by traditional academic theology which abandoned the world to science.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

Traditional science publishing relies on institutions and libraries buying subscriptions and site licences to academic journals.

Traditional careers in academic science increasingly are recognized by many grad students and postdocs as being restrictive and problematic.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

The introduction of the new English Baccalaureate (eBac) stemmed from the government's concern that there had been a «dramatic collapse» in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in traditional academic subjects including English, maths, science, foreign language and humanities.

The school's philosophy is that student interest drives learning, and much of the traditional academic content (math, English, social studies, science) works to enhance students» career and technical interests.

The Ebacc focuses on traditional academic subjects: English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.

In our primary niche (medical education), medical students often must endure academic torture by studying complex medical science concepts through the traditional medium of organized study, including attending boring classes, reading dense textbooks, and practicing thousands of arduous vignettes.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

SPR members view prevention science as an emerging discipline that brings together the strengths and unique contributions of many traditional academic disciplines.

A new science - themed D.C. charter school plans to open its doors this fall across the street from a traditional school that serves the same grade levels and has the same academic focus, highlighting a lack of coordination that has drawn increasing scrutiny in recent months.

• Enhancing and enriching a variety of traditional academic lessons, from science to language arts.

Well, it's not supposed to be true in science — perhaps the traditional definition has been scrapped by many in order to gain grants, air time, and «positions of greater authority» in the academic and research communities.

You will earn a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University that combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic boundaries.