Example sentences of "sixth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixth text is the condemnation of anti-semitism : the Council ‘ deplores the hatred , persecutions , and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and from any source ’ ( Nostra Aetate 4 ) . |
| 2 | They were chosen for the award by an independent panel of judges comprising leading local journalists from the print and electronic media and are the sixth award winners from the state of Kedah and the 142nd overall since the scheme was launched in July 1975 . |
| 3 | This form of life was shared by the sixth forms of grammar schools and the universities to which their students proceeded , and it did not greatly differ whether the frame of reference was ‘ Cambridge ’ or ‘ Oxford ’ , or to import an Arnoldian variation on this model , Hebraic or Hellenic , directed towards ‘ criticism ’ or ‘ appreciation ’ . |
| 4 | In Britain university English was developed with undergraduate teaching primarily in mind , in a culture that included the sixth forms of schools . |
| 5 | We also value our school sixth forms , and will ensure they retain their place in the new system . |
| 6 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 7 | The number of 11–16 schools ( without sixth forms in them , that is ) was growing — from 9 per cent in 1965 to 21 per cent in 1968 . |
| 8 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 9 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 10 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |
| 11 | It was felt that combining the academic aspects of the sixth forms with the opportunities for applied study and more flexible course structures of further education could result in exciting new approaches to 16–19 education . |
| 12 | Most will have taken a Foundation course in Art and Design , but applicants from a wide range of backgrounds are welcome , including those applying direct from sixth forms . |
| 13 | Recruitment was still predominantly local , and the low numbers who studied foreign languages in the sixth forms secured University places with little difficulty , and postponed their decision to teach . |
| 14 | They felt , rightly or not , happier starting a course on level terms with newcomers from the sixth forms , than one in which younger students would have the advantage of an A Level course in the subject . |
| 15 | Schools threatened with closure or with the loss of their sixth forms are among the most likely to seriously consider opting out , and the Grammar School Association expects about one-third of the remaining 150 grammar schools to opt out . |
| 16 | The swing away from science in the sixth forms of secondary schools , which ran counter to the expansion of science and technology in the universities , was the subject of this investigation . |
| 17 | In 1986 there were 1945 comprehensive schools with sixth forms in England , with over 200,000 pupils . |
| 18 | They usually take pupils from several ‘ feeder ’ comprehensives without sixth forms in the area . |
| 19 | Certainly schools which have sixth forms try hard to make use of prior knowledge about each student 's performance and information about his or her potential . |
| 20 | But there is at least some chance of cooperation , in contrast to the absence of an obligation to plan together between higher education , sixth forms in secondary schools and colleges of further as well as tertiary education . |
| 21 | The Council considered papers and had discussions on the design of modular courses and issues affecting sandwich courses , responded to policy documents on sixth forms and engineering , surveyed its own past work and considered its future roles , discussed resource constraints and perceptions of its institutional visits and the work of the subject boards . |
| 22 | Traditionally Catholic provision for this age group was found in the Sixth Forms of our Grammar and Comprehensive schools and was confined in the main to A level provision . |
| 23 | From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than . |
| 24 | Many school sixth forms continue to operate as separate limits . |
| 25 | For such Catholic sixth forms or sixth form colleges , therefore , the challenge is not simply to be as good as the alternative but to exceed it in reputation and appeal . |
| 26 | It does n't say , some people think A Levels are a good thing and some people think A Levels are a bad thing , it would n't say something like that , it would n't be vague like that , it would say , A Levels are the qualification issued in most sixth forms in England and Wales , right , erm they generally need a two year course of study . |
| 27 | Peter Shuker , principal of the Darlington College of Technology , said half of the county 's over-16s stayed on in sixth forms or colleges like his . |
| 28 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 29 | What 's going to happen when the size of sixth forms shrinks ? |
| 30 | Is it still labour policy that erm sixth forms should be abolished and replaced by tertiary colleges ? |