I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultural/scientific/academic exchange
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The mayors of Tokyo and New York signed an agreement to encourage cultural exchanges between the cities.
academic credentials
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Her academic credentials include an MA and a PhD.
academic freedom (= freedom to teach or study any ideas )
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She refused, on the grounds of academic freedom, to amend the course.
academic qualifications
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Eva had excellent academic qualifications.
academic success (= success in education )
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There is no evidence that early teaching of reading leads to academic success.
academic tenure
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to acquire academic tenure .
academic writing
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In academic writing, you should avoid contractions such as "don't" or "aren't".
academic year
academic/educational standards
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There had been a policy of raising academic standards within the school.
academic/political/environmental etc criteria
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The winning product must satisfy a range of environmental criteria.
academic/political/literary etc circles
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There has been a lot of debate about this issue in political circles.
an academic curriculum (= involving studying from books, not practical subjects )
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They unquestioningly accept the traditional academic curriculum.
an academic essay
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Mature students often need practice writing academic essays.
an academic/practical etc turn of mind
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youngsters with an independent turn of mind
educational/academic background
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The interviewer will ask you about your educational background and work experience.
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Postgraduate students come from a wide range of academic backgrounds.
intellectual/academic ability
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No one doubts his intellectual abilities.
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A degree is evidence of your academic ability in a particular subject area.
medical/academic/technical etc staff
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We would like to thank all the medical staff at Broadgreen Hospital.
political/scientific/academic etc credibility
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A school's academic credibility often depends on its exam results.
the business/scientific/academic etc community
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The idea has received intense interest from the business community.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
purely
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Are the competing views purely academic debates, or do they also reflect wider social interests? 4.
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Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man's widow.
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One could be forgiven, however, for viewing this as a purely academic philosophy.
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Such divisions are not, so to speak, purely academic .
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But asking which of these young overseas players is the better is purely academic .
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In this sense we are not concerned to produce a book by academics for a purely academic audience.
■ NOUN
ability
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Their degree is evidence of their academic ability in a particular subject area.
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All will have a positive academic ability .
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His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability .
achievement
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Mr. Sayeed Does my hon. Friend agree that assessing ability only in terms of academic achievement sells young people short?
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The students were chosen because of their strong leadership potential, academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities.
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Core skills are those which are basic to all vocational and academic achievement .
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Does divorce interfere with academic achievement ?
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Evidence of recent academic achievement is normally required.
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Likewise, early reading problems and low scores on achievement tests are often used as an indicator of anticipated weak academic achievement.
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A prevailing sense of relief and a chance for everyone to forge a career non-reliant on academic achievement .
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The extent to which school-to-work can raise academic achievement is less clear.
background
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My literary and academic background was something, I often felt, I was expected to apologise for.
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His academic background includes the study of law at Harvard.
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Postgraduate and post-experience diplomas and certificates are, in general, designed for students with a wider range of academic backgrounds and experience.
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Money was certainly a major consideration, as were location and academic background .
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A strong academic background , preferably an advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
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Computing is a subject open to applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds spanning the arts and sciences.
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As we saw earlier many of those interviewed had little traditional academic background having left school at an early age.
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Candidates from government, commerce or academic backgrounds are invited to apply.
career
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I used to think about an academic career when I was a student.
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After college, they moved on to literary and academic careers and began a rightward march through the 1940s and 1950s.
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He began his academic career as a physiologist and pharmacologist.
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The administrative breakdown of components in the academic career are: research, teaching, and community service.
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In Petah Tikva my wife had just started a promising academic career .
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We look forward to meeting you and wish you every success in your academic career .
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The categories in the framework supposedly can be applied to academic careers , roles, and the works of particular scholars.
circle
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He also expressed his disappointment at the lack of support from his colleagues in academic circles .
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The burden of the essay will be merely to indicate how voluntarism can succeed in academic circles .
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We have described two uses of the survey method which originated outside academic circles .
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There is much of it already in academic circles and also in business centers.
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Criticism and debate are to be welcomed, however, and should not be confined to academic circles .
community
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The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality.
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But now a new outlook is sweeping large segments of the academic community .
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Henley hosts conferences to report research outcomes from both its own and the wider academic community .
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It recently launched a program to cull the academic community for new technologies that will help ease the gridlock.
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The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge.
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That is why the academic community has erected its appraisal systems, with anonymous referees and appraisers.
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It should also be noted that many of these issues have not greatly exercised the academic community in this country.
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It follows that the academic community and research are directly interrelated.
course
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Like professional courses , academic courses come in several sub-types.
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They have eliminated the general track and replaced low-level academic courses with ones that teach college-preparatory content in new ways.
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There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.
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These supplement their core academic courses , which are taken with the rest of their classmates in the regular high school.
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The first provides a more general form of academic course than the specialized academic degrees described above.
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High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
department
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The study was conducted in a subregional radiotherapy centre and an academic department of gastroenterology and therapeutics.
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They direct and coordinate activities of deans of individual colleges and chairpersons of academic departments .
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Traditionally, professors were the heads of academic departments .
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Today the aggressive presence of deconstructionism that shook up so many academic departments in the 1980s has receded.
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Many such activities were organised this year in co-operation with academic departments .
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The curious thing is why a university made Mr Jeffries head of an academic department in the first place.
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Such staff usually have a close relationship with the academic departments .
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A first approach to an entity model for an academic department of computer science is given in Figure 3.1.
discipline
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The reason can perhaps be found in the fact that company law as an academic discipline boasts no long and distinguished pedigree.
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I made all kinds of friends. 1 learned academic discipline .
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Rivers played a fundamental role in the establishment of both experimental psychology and social anthropology as academic disciplines in Great Britain.
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Feminist scholars have shown how all academic disciplines have been dominated by a male view of the world.
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This is the academic discipline which is the intellectual concept of both theories and methods.
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The groupings that form around academic disciplines are both cultures and anti-cultures.
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He must be able to place his subject both in the context of other academic disciplines and of society as a whole.
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This principle is not the special prerogative of anthropology, and it transcends all the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines .
field
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Only in their most elementary courses do other academic fields offer even a partial parallel.
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Attention is turned away from the academic field rather than inward.
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The Delegates meet at intervals to determine policy, in particular publishing policy in the academic field .
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Hughes does not look very far for what is unique to sociology as an academic field of inquiry.
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Her academic field was ethno-psychology, and she had long been interested in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
freedom
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Near facilitates the rapid transfer of information about attacks on academics and academic freedom on a global basis.
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Parducci felt her dismissal violated her right to academic freedom .
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This is entirely in keeping with the theoretical debate over academic freedom which we find in the literature.
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On the other hand, some judges do not believe that academic freedom applies to public schools.
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And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom .
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The serious charge that academic freedom was violated on his campus has yet to be addressed.
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Now, the latter three are clearly matters of academic freedom , given the way in which academic freedom is commonly understood.
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Is academic freedom the same in public schools and in colleges?
institution
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He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources.
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Virtually every academic institution , it seemed, wanted a piece of the pie.
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Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based.
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Virtually all of them see their academic institutions as complex social worlds with competing pressures and multiple tasks and goals.
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The article illustrates at least three important issues confronting many academic institutions .
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Because fraternities are privately owned and run, they are for the most part beyond the jurisdiction of academic institutions .
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The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower: it is journalism that gives the lead.
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Employers have until recently been kept at arms' length and away from sensitive areas of involvement within academic institutions , including management.
interest
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The performance itself was important, but it was almost of academic interest .
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At the time Jane Gilbert told these stories, they were of more than academic interest to her.
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Neither of them had pure academic interests .
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These graced stately homes, were used in libraries and by those with a specific academic interest in botany or horticulture.
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Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man's widow.
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His academic interests focus on cancers of young adults, particularly lymphomas and testicular tumours.
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That this may or may not be implicitly Rawls' own view is only of academic interest .
journal
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It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines.
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A new academic journal , Fashion Theory, hopes to document and analyze such moments in the evolution of the style industry.
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The supreme court's rulings have been controversial, much criticised in academic journals , newspaper leaders and news magazines.
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Gallons of ink have been spilled in academic journals and in newspapers over monetary policy.
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Society and other academic journals tend to have longer periods between acceptance of their papers and publication than commercial journals.
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The Wiconsin Sociologist, which I edited from 1970-1983, is an academic journal and a newsletter.
library
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It is a pity that much of the work done has been linked to specific titles in an academic library setting.
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Our primary objective is to collect, organize and disseminate information and materials relating to academic library orientation and instruction.
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Hart's Book selection and use in academic libraries provides a useful summary of recent literature.
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The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist.
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None the less, logistics problems of making books available in special and academic libraries remain, and warrant research.
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They still remain by far the biggest group although most use is concentrated in the academic library sector.
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But the overall basis of academic library funding is changing significantly.
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Most public library authorities, and some academic libraries, now rely heavily on approval collections.
life
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Kogan and Becher have argued that, beyond the individual academic , the department is the basic unit of academic life .
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Tammy was also picking up on the expectations of academic life .
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Not unexpectedly, this officer left the police and moved into academic life .
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She went four more years without hospitalization, but the stress of academic life came crashing down once again.
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They are seen as an important part of academic life in the School.
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Leave aside that Lewis is far from alone in attacking academic life these days.
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Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life .
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There seems to be little doubt that work-inhibited students have limited faith in their ability to persevere in academic life .
performance
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One in three said financial hardship had affected their academic performance and future plans.
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This profile fit with her academic performance in school.
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She scored top marks, and received the Lord Wolfenden prize for outstanding academic performance .
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As for Stewart, his physical development was improving, and he took pride in his academic performance at Kingswood.
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The analysis carried out concentrated mainly on the relationships between undergraduates' academic performance and their entry qualifications.
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About the Families Investigators have long linked unfavorable family situations with poor academic performance .
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The school has tried to use technology and writing across subjects to improve students' academic performance .
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Some studies have documented lower dropout rates, improved attendance, greater academic course-taking, and better academic performance .
qualification
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No formal or academic qualifications were required for this, and she did get some training.
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She had no academic qualifications of any kind, but most exceptionally the faculty had admitted her for doctoral study.
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Does the health authority have any provision to assist young people to acquire the necessary academic qualifications for entry to nurse training?
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Despite his lineage and academic qualifications , Denholm was modest and retiring to a fault.
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Importantly, dropping out of college has not deprived him of academic qualifications .
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Technical workers with an academic qualification are tending to replace the engineers of former years.
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Only 12 members had any academic qualifications , and the highest achievers were those from mainstream schools.
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The courses will be college based, they will be vocationally relevant but they will also offer academic qualifications .
record
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There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records .
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Aside from the dismal academic record of ability grouping, it has a divisive social consequence as well.
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The headmaster, Wilfred Mulryne, is immensely proud of the school's academic record .
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Economics allowed investment banking recruiters to compare directly the academic records of recruits.
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Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits, her gaucherie for poise.
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The academic record of many poor black students is dismal and getting worse.
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Whether he would have made it with his fairly anaemic academic record at Wellington is another matter.
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They gave her copies of the papers they had written, and she kept close track of their academic record .
research
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We also need to develop bridges between academic research and its application.
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Unfortunately, academic research is not always about telling the truth.
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Is he aware that such cuts in academic research will prove to be economic short termism with vengeance?
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One teacher asked Unz what academic research he had consulted.
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Interestingly, this attitude contrasts starkly with how people conduct their clinical practice or academic research .
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In Delaware, employers are helping assess student prod products that combine academic research with its real-world applications.
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In academic research we submit our findings to rigorous peer review.
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The laboratory provides an environment for academic research , client based projects, teaching activities and advisory and information services.
researcher
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Through the scheme the client group will be put in touch with a suitable academic researcher if they have not themselves nominated one.
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The data were gathered for a carefully selected national sample of voters in a survey designed by academic researchers .
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In the light of these difficulties with measuring job satisfaction, academic researchers have made two responses.
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But what happens when academic researchers go out on a political limb with their findings?
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A new study* by three academic researchers has tried to find out.
skill
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Access to a wide range of academic skills .
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They need to learn the skills of stick-to-it-iveness more than academic skills.
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In fact, there is no division and social and academic skills and abilities differ widely.
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It may therefore be concluded that work inhibition is not a function of intelligence or weak academic skills .
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By contrast, it is easier to confirm an academic skill weakness through the use of standardized achievement tests.
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The students will never forget these experiences, and they are learning academic skills in the context of use.
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By the time students complete the first grade, it is fairly easy to assess students' basic academic skills .
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Working together, the staff developed numerous ways to use the neighborhood around the school to teach academic skills .
staff
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Perhaps the relationship between academic staff and student is essentially different so that regulation is required.
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In both these forms of education there is co-operation between library and academic staff .
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The total number of academic staff has risen from 284 in 1987/88 to 348 in 1991/92.
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From time to time papers are offered by members of the academic staff and by visiting speakers.
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The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff .
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It needs to be recast, so that it extends beyond academic staff to embrace the student body.
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Our relations are more adult and friendly than those of many academic staff rooms that I have seen.
standard
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Under intense political pressure the strict academic standards which first prevailed were relaxed, and entry was broadened.
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But educators there have shown that high academic standards and the concepts under-girding school-to-work are not mutually exclusive.
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We are putting in place new mechanisms to ensure that academic standards are maintained in higher education.
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All the academic standards are all locally developed.
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Competition for the few places available is keen and a high academic standard is required.
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Initially, Peter won the sympathy of a few board members with his critique of the program s academic standards .
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Corporate leaders also have championed the need for higher academic standards , most recently at the National Education Summit in 1996.
study
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The staff teaching these courses should be qualified by appropriate experience and specialist academic study .
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Although these manuscripts have been known for a long time now, they have been the object of academic study only.
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Wrong provides a level of daily-life detail often missing from academic studies .
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At the core of the academic studies is a basic rule: Investors believe in the status quo.
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None the less, anthropology soon became an independent academic study , first by amateurs, and later by university researchers.
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But as Marshall knew, economics is not just an academic study , but also a craft for practitioners.
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First, the academic study of the concept has been profoundly transformed in the past twenty years or so.
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Everything about the traditional high school works against the merger of vocational and academic studies .
subject
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Asked if he thought an over-emphasis on sport could disadvantage black kids in academic subjects , he answered: No.
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It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
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He had never taught boys who were less than well-grounded in traditional academic subjects .
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It called for all students to earn a certificate of initial mastery in the core academic subjects by grade 10.
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To discuss the choice of academic subjects . 3.
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The rest of their time is spent in academic subjects .
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How then did this apolitical, academic subject come to play such an important part in the development of Marxism?
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Each academy has at least one integrated project per year that combines the career theme with the separate academic subjects .
success
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Tutorial colleges can offer academic success where the almamater has failed.
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They saw themselves as academic successes .
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From 1927 onwards, the objective was no longer solely not to be a loser by achieving bourgeois academic success .
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Intelligence Tests Schools use intelligence test scores to predict potential for academic success .
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This suggests that extra life experience can be translated into greater academic success .
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Again, academic success came easy, bud this time I was really interested.
work
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For two years I worked as a residential officer in old people's homes in addition to my academic work.
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He himself had stopped doing academic work years beforehand.
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But once her academic work began, Margaret felt the faith of her childhood unfolding in all its richness.
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So it was evident that Dan was able to persist in some of his endeavors-but not in his basic academic work .
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They found only one parent objected to schools dealing with values, as this would harm academic work .
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Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.
world
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I have had similar experiences in the academic world .
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He is not highly protective, but neither are most scholars in the academic world .
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In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
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But the academic publishing world has been hit just as hard as the rest of the academic world.
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What we may learn is that ascribed status in the academic world needs to be replaced by craft or performance status.
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In 1979 an operational researcher was brought in from the academic world to look at the use being made of Exminster.
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Demos takes in figures from the business, trades union and academic worlds as well as journalists.
year
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In the last academic year it published 23 major articles, and produced 26 papers in its Discussion Paper series.
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School officials hope to put the stricter promotion standards into place this academic year .
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Hon. Members will be aware that the access fund allocations for the current academic year have already been made.
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In the next academic year the Tutoring Scheme is to be extended throughout the University.
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Good Luck with your enrolment and the start of the new academic year - see you in October.
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On April 7 the government ordered the closure of all schools and the university, and declared the current academic year invalid.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the school/academic year
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A dud for most of the year , with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.
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Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year .
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In the academic year 1990/91, work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards.
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That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year .
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The Counselling Service offers a number of group workshops and skills acquisition classes during the academic year .
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The paper was discussed by branches and Federations during the academic year 1956-57 and at the District Council of July 1957.
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The Transit minibus will be used for outings and visits throughout the school year .
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To bring together these keys to the curriculum, the school year is organized around themes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an academic education
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an academic institution
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Her name is well known in academic circles.
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How is academic achievement to be measured?
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I'm not particularly academic , but I love to read.
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I wasn't very academic , and l left school at sixteen.
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If you're academic , you can take some of your exams a year or two early.
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Increased self-confidence can help improve academic achievement.
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Leon was unemployed, and had no academic qualifications.
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Teachers must provide challenging activities for their more academic pupils.
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The academic year starts September 3.
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The budget meetings are not for academic discussion - some hard choices must be made.
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The new law raises concerns about academic freedom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.
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Each academy has at least one integrated project per year that combines the career theme with the separate academic subjects.
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In both these forms of education there is co-operation between library and academic staff.
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In recent years, schools have become more involved with students' emotional welfare as well as their academic achievement.
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Markowitz's two-parameter model spawned an academic industry engaged in exploring the ramifications of the investor behaviour implied in the original formulation.
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Not unexpectedly, this officer left the police and moved into academic life.
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Now they are criticized because they are not academic enough.
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The relationship between idealism and politics is not academic .
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Academics can usually get time off teaching to do their own research.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project.
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Bragg says that universities urgently need to convince academics that popularising research is respectable.
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In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan.
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No academic would allow such superficial assessments in his or her own discipline.
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Some have injected low-level academics into low-level vocational classes.
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Students also will be able to have direct contact with professional academics and researchers.
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The Alice in Wonderland feeling never really disappears for an academic in the world of vocational training.