noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a college student/teacher/lecturer
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a sixth-form college student
a language student/learner
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Language learners often have problems with tenses.
a prospective student/pupil
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The college will be holding an open day for prospective students.
a research student
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He supervised many research students.
a student card
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Entrance is free if you have a student card.
a student demonstration (= by students )
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In France, student demonstrations were disrupting university teaching.
a student exchange
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Our college arranged student exchanges with four colleges in France.
a student grant
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If you are on a low income, you may be able to get a student grant.
a student loan (= money lent to a student to pay for university )
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Many college graduates are paying off huge student loans.
a student population
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The university has a student population of almost 5000.
a student protest
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Student protests were crushed by police.
a student/family counsellor (= helping students or families with problems )
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Student counsellors say there's a lot of pressure at college these days.
a university student
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Thirty years ago 33% of university students were female.
a work/student visa
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They'd sent their daughter abroad on a student visa.
exchange student
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an 18-year-old exchange student from France
full-time staff/student etc
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They’re looking for full-time staff at the library.
LEP students
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The number of LEP students has risen since 1993.
matriculated students
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matriculated students
mature student
new member/employee/student etc
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training for new employees
school students ( also school pupils British English )
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Most school students have musical interests of some kind.
student accommodation
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Universities have to provide student accommodation for first-year students.
student body
student government
student loan
student teaching
student union
student unrest
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Anti-war demonstrations became the focus of student unrest in the early 1970s.
undergraduate student/course/degree etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Girls and boys, women and men, black and white students are differentiated and polarized.
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I don't care about rock festivals or black power or student revolutions or going to the Moon.
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According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.
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Support in 1990 has enabled several thousand black students to continue into higher education.
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Not only do black students have problems with white students and white institutions, but splits occur among the black students themselves.
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In contrast, discrimination against black students occurs at the initial entry stage into the labour market.
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Many of the more intellectually sophisticated black students were embarrassed and even insulted by the crudity of Jeffries' appeal.
fellow
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Four of Aikenhead's fellow students whose views on religion Aikenhead claimed were similar to his gave evidence against him.
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He seemed to prefer to go travelling with his fellow students .
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Be prepared to accept a suggestion from a fellow student .
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Mimic only the language helper, not the supervisor or a fellow student .
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At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students .
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At college, the questions you and your fellow students pose are as important as the answers supplied.
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When I was a student one of my fellow students was a fairly rude, arrogant young man.
high
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Taught postgraduate and higher degree students profit from a very wide range of national and international contacts in the department.
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But they expressed the greatest concerns about the time it takes for workers to supervise and mentor high school students .
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On April 2, as schools and the university reopened, there were minor clashes between high school students and police.
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Y., collected stamps and, as a high school honors student , performed science experiments on the conductivity of seawater.
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In addition 7,000 high school students from around the world took part in Rotary's youth exchange programme.
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In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students .
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In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
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A sweet-voiced high school student named Laura Travis performed the song solo.
mature
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Walker suggests that if there is an optimum age for mature students it is likely to be in the late twenties.
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I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985.
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Some of them were mature students studying medicine, dentistry, law, engineering.
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This is particularly true in encouraging the admission of mature students , among whom local applicants are viewed especially sympathetically.
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Most research on women in engineering has been done exclusively on either school-leavers or mature students .
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The faculty welcomes applications from mature students .
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He was a mature student ... I had known him in fact as a child.
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The latter argument is based partly on the growing importance to higher education of mature students and continuing education.
medical
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Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students .
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The only educational investment most banks are willing to make without government subsidies or guarantees is for medical students .
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He sat where medical students usually sat, hands clasped before him, watching the rapid movement of the green-robed figures below.
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Almost from the start, as a young medical student , he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.
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He also freelanced, collecting bodies from alleys for medical students .
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In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.
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Amongst the people who came visiting was a young Maidenhead medical student .
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Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
undergraduate
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Since autumn 1998, full-time undergraduate students have been required to make a means-tested contribution towards tuition fees.
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One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.
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The cards were then presented to six groups of undergraduate students , each group containing four or five members.
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Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.
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But what about the undergraduate students back home who also need stimulation by brilliant people?
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Yale has an obligation to its undergraduate students .
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Linton lists as his perceived audience undergraduates studying microbiology, together with both undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine and veterinary science.
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Nisbet is furthest removed from the little intellectual worlds of ordinary people-the undergraduate students and citizens.
young
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This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
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But their young student athletes might not be as ready as they think.
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His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic.
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Almost from the start, as a young medical student , he embraced the patients other doctors tried to avoid.
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The best players tend to be very young , students in their early 20s, he said.
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Startled, his young student did so.
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Instead apathy reigns, not least among the young , even students .
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And for the young students , it might just take the fun out of learning.
■ NOUN
body
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Black-jacketed on the podium, he was on a different plane from the student body , silent and scribbling at his feet.
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In schools with an all-white student body , the average ran up to $ 350 allocated per pupil per year.
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There is a strong sense of community amongst the self-governing student body .
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Assisted by aides from surrounding neighborhoods, teachers at Jackson work valiantly with the diverse student body .
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The student body is cosmopolitan, including individuals from all continents.
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The makeup of the student body is a prototype of schools that fail.
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The student body thereupon came out on strike.
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They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body .
college
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It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students .
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Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students .
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Let's look at some typical groups of college students in Britain.
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Did a college student serious about building his future at once have to agonize over his future?
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The college student counselling services are well-experienced in such matters and can be very supportive.
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Karen was not an average City College student , but nobody would have thought to call her privileged.
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Equally, the community college students recalled more information when the relative importance of different ideas was made more explicit.
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A few college students have gathered in a square to swap soccer trading cards.
graduate
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It is not just overseas graduate students who have problems.
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As a first-year graduate student , I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.
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A paper for some graduate student , she thought.
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I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.
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I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.
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As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.
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In one, first-year graduate students were asked to take part in an experiment.
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Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.
law
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The mixed honours degrees mentioned below specifically cater for the non-vocational law student .
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Well, consider an instant poll of a class of first-year law students , asked Tuesday who they wanted for their dean.
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But it could not do without its law students who brought business and fame and brilliance to the town.
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Six years before, she had shocked her family and class by marrying a destitute Berkeley law student .
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And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford, Greater Manchester.
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The law student is not expected to learn every single rule in every single legal topic.
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Only 5 percent of our law students are black, and the figure is declining.
loan
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This student loans scheme has degenerated into open shambles.
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Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.
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Her student loan ran out earlier last month and she is now £500 overdrawn.
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Weld said he thought some federal student loan and job training programs were mired in bureaucracy.
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It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan - in total a yearly income of just £2,685.
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It borrows money by selling its own debt and invests in student loans .
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Picture, page 4 Rethink call from Tory peers follows banks' pull-out Minister in corner over student loans .
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Sallie Mae manages one in every three outstanding student loans , or about $ 34 billion, he said.
minority
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A drive to attract more ethnic minority students to Longlands College, Middlesbrough, is showing good results.
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Among minority students the figures were, predictably, much lower.
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Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students .
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He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.
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Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure.
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S.-born and minority students to consider careers in science and technology.
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Maybe a minority student has not had the same opportunities.
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Gross desperately pointed to the work of a lifetime to show that he was scarcely unsympathetic to the plight of minority students .
school
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First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
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In my travels around the country I have met with hundreds of high school students .
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The future was also theirs: Nonconformist Sunday School students came to 14,091,034.
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Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.
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Only Ray and a high school student named Devon Franklin remained standing in the middle of the nave.
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Mary's High School students may apply for one of two $ 500 awards.
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Once accepted into the program, high school students complete a core sequence of applied academics and technology courses.
teacher
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Even student teachers , who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.
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Are there special liability standards for substitute teachers and student teachers?
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We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College.
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This doctrine is illustrated by a New York case where a student teacher was injured while participating in a donkey basketball game.
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For example, a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers .
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Teachers and student teachers from six North County schools are taking part.
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The other letter is from Melanie, a 19-year-old student teacher in the village of Umvuma.
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I left school in 1941, and went for a year as a student teacher in my father's school.
university
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Thirty years ago 33 % of university students were female; now there are more women than men.
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The dance given by the university students was held in the upstairs Cyllene Salen.
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It's a blow to University students who've had to cancel performances they've worked hard to produce.
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He was 22 at the time, still a Stanford University student .
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Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.
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When the soldiers blocked university students from entering campuses the next morning, name-calling and fights broke out.
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In the fifties university student numbers had risen from 135,000 in 1949 to 220,000 in 1960.
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She will be sought after by university students and officers both, but she will prefer the officers.
■ VERB
allow
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The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation.
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Is it fair to allow certain students to do less?
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There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace.
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It will allow students in one school district to work with students in the next town or half way around the world.
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Thus allowing the student to be certificated for a breadth of technique in string instruments.
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Schools and classrooms can be restructured to allow students greater participation in the valid aspects of the school-governing process.
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Vocational Studies allow students to make an informed choice of career options.
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They provide expertise across a wide range of topics while allowing the students to contribute to the year-to-year developments in experimental techniques.
ask
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Then we asked the students to sit quietly with their eyes closed and think about the costs.
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Hold up the circular strip and ask the students how many sides it has.
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I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan.
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First they read them aloud, then Primo asks the other students if they understand.
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Remember that you have asked students to put on a public performance.
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The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.
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There is nothing worse than asking students to write a memo to Macbeth.
help
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It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.
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What is needed first in each school is a clear sense of direction-an articulated goal to identify and help work-inhibited students .
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This brought in loans to help towards student living costs.
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In order to help work-inhibited students as much as possible, it is extremely important to rule out any other suspected disorders.
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A new way of helping students leave a mark.
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This professional year helps students to relate theory to practice and later to make more informed career choices.
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Programs may be developed during school hours where professionals help work-inhibited students .
provide
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Bed spaces will be provided for 365 students along with creche and laundry facilities.
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To provide students with career exploration or specific occupational competencies?
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Projects provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate personal initiative.
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They have a wide view to help them look out for the hunters. Provide the students with pictures of animals.
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In addition, an updated record is provided for each student following the termly examination committees, showing the student's results.
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Apprenticeships and other programs with clear, competency-based standards provide students with real, marketable skills and a credential when they graduate.
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It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
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The rally, according to Merrill, provides students a channel to express feelings of violation and pain.
require
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There can be as much discussion as is required and students can be directed to known sources of topics.
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In mathematics, it included open-ended problems requiring students to show their work.
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Good assignments will also require the student to answer some technical catering questions and resolve syllabus issues.
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Are schools required to recognize controversial student groups?
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They are usable by any member of staff when not required by students .
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This requires that the student understands the terms used, especially technical terms.
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It said 78 percent of the schools require prospective students to demonstrate grade-level achievement.
teach
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As well as formal sessions there may be opportunities for developing informal and spontaneous bedside teaching both patients and students .
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He took up a job at the City Day College teaching day-release students .
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I have taught many students by these two criteria.
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By the case method, both cheap and easy, one can teach two hundred students as easily as twenty.
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That is the first lesson I teach my students at Bart's.
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It had developed a list of workforce-readiness objectives to teach students before they began working at the company.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an A student
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I was an A student, on my way to medical school.
an apt pupil/student
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But once at university I was an apt student.
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With every move she gave a little gasp, as her body, previous experience or not, proved an apt pupil.
fee-paying student/patient
fellow workers/students/countrymen etc
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As the permanent workplace becomes a shifting work space, daily face-to-face contact with fellow workers is increasingly sporadic.
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Host a quiz night for your fellow students.
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Not all of my fellow students were as pleased with me, though.
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Religion may affect employees' attitudes to their jobs and their relationships with expatriates and fellow countrymen.
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She and her fellow students were told that their mission was to free the peasants from feudalism.
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Stallabrass seems alienated from the labour of his fellow workers.
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To help you relate to your fellow students. 2.
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Workshops are an ideal opportunity to meet tutors and exchange ideas with fellow students.
model wife/employee/student etc
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Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
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First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
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He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
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How is that model employee of yours?
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In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
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Two other girls were model students.
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Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
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Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
people/women/students etc of color
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war.
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a farewell party for the overseas students
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extra help for disabled students
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He was accused of attacking a fellow student .
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Law students always have a lot of work to do.
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Mira hadn't seen Brad since their student days at the University of Wisconsin.
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Seventy percent of the university's business students have job offers by graduation.
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She's a student at Cornell University.
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The study found that drug use among high school students is rising.
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There are only 15 students in each class.
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We have a large number of mature students here, some with small children.
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We would welcome suggestions from both teachers and students.
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What was the social life like when you were a student nurse?
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Wiggins was a student of theology for many years before leaving the seminary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the first meeting with the students we discussed with them the arguments for this way of working and secured their agreement.
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How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it?
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Others are fortunate to find supportive faculty, administrators, and fellow students.
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Relying on math formulas or drills in class, the study suggests, bores many students and undermines their performance.
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Studies had shown that the more assessment tests a student failed, the likelier that student was to drop out.
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The device ensures that the students have the correct information and avoids copious note-taking.
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To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her.