Example sentences of "education and [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In higher education , for example , the idea of the autonomy of the University Grants Committee ( replaced in 1988 by the University Funding Council ) as a buffer between the universities and the Department of Education and Science has been shattered and the Department has regularly intervened with advice to universities and polytechnics about subject areas which should have greater or less resources .
2 His upbringing , education and training had been based on the assumption that in any situation his class were the natural leaders .
3 Meanwhile , as Layard and Nickell ( 1989 ) have shown , Britain 's recent record on education and training has been notably inadequate .
4 The dysfunctional force of this distinction between education and training has been reinforced by the binary system of state and public schools and by the belief in a ‘ classic ’ non-vocational education as a gold standard or jewel in the crown against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged .
5 The two related factors that have worked against an integration of education and training have been traditional recruitment into the professions via Oxbridge , and the view that the summum bonum of English education is A levels .
6 Truthfulness and openness are particularly difficult aims to have in a British organization where so much of our education and background has been devoted to concealing feelings and to suffering heroically without protest .
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