Example sentences of "education [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is clear that there is some justification for this , on the basis of the established relationships between Highers and A-level scores and success in higher education for traditionally qualified students .
2 In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century .
3 Intermediate measures of output have often been used as surrogates for ultimate output : the use of marking in examinations has dominated education for over 150 years .
4 As a result , by the time the DET did a survey of farm schooling in 1986 , only 3 per cent of the total of 5,782 farm schools offered education for more than seven grades , and 21 per cent did not offer education beyond four grades .
5 Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year .
6 Members of the education department and councillors alike have constantly striven to provide a high standard of education for as rich and diverse a society as one can imagine .
7 Jim Martin , EIS general secretary , said that such changes continuing in education for purely political reasons would not be tolerated by the Scottish public .
8 R. H. Tawney died in January 1962 , and admirers of the grammar school ( like myself ) reflected on the contrasts between Secondary Education for All ( 1922 ) and The future of Socialism ( 1957 ) , and on the deep , underlying tensions in the growing debate on secondary education .
9 It is no accident that the title of the Swann Report on children from ethnic minorities was Education for All ( Committee of Inquiry , 1985 ) .
10 Both the Rampton Report , West Indian Children in Our Schools ( 1981 ) and the Swann Report , Education for All ( 1985 ) appeared to confirm earlier anxieties .
11 The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation .
12 1985 Swann — Education for All ( Cmnd. 9453 )
13 In one famous Californian court case a school leaver sued the State Department of Education for precisely this reason .
14 Schools offering special education for visually handicapped pupils have in many cases a residential base but still accept pupils on a daily basis when this is practicable .
15 At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ .
16 It is posited here that the maleffects of reproductive patterns upon maternal and child health and mortality represent largely unnecessary personal and social burdens , some of which can be eliminated by successful family planning and some by the formal education of both women and men , but especially women .
17 I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’
18 The education of very small children is entirely in the hands of the mother and nurse .
19 Special schools for mentally handicapped children now exist throughout Prior to the 1971 Act , the education of mentally handicapped children was governed by legislation dating from 1944 , which advocated a selective procedure to determine which children were considered educable and which were not .
20 Considerable progress has been made in the education of mentally handicapped people since the legislation in 1971 .
21 These produced a memorable series of reports : on early leaving ; on education between fifteen and eighteen ; on the education of less academic children ; on higher education ; and on primary education .
22 Responsibility for the education of severely subnormal children in England and Wales was transferred by this Act from the health authorities to the local education authorities ; LEAs were thereafter responsible for all establishments caring for mentally handicapped children .
23 Responsibility for the education of severely mentally handicapped children was transferred from the health authorities to the local education authorities under this Act .
24 He had prescribed an education of almost Spartan rigour ; the comparison with Sparta is obvious , not only implicit .
25 Over the last twenty years a number of publications concerned with the education of visually handicapped children have given very prescriptive advice on the most suitable seating arrangements for classes which include visually handicapped children .
26 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
27 Her education from then on was the Sunday afternoon spent in the basement underneath the church in Halton Street , chanting the catechism .
28 Whatever the ultimate effects of the present move to academic excellence and competition in our schools I would point people in the diocese to notice the serious cuts which are being made within other areas of education in both Cumbria and Lancashire — and especially , in this time of discussion about juvenile crime , in the County Youth Services .
29 History has much to contribute to vocational education in both its narrower and broader definitions .
30 Maughan and Rutter ( 1987 ) report on an extension of Fifteen Thousand Hours where the opportunity was taken of the existence of the original 1970 data set to follow the progress of some of the pupils throughout their secondary education in either comprehensive or grammar schools .
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