Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj -er] education " in BNC.

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1 It needs to be firmly said that these essentially non-instrumental disciplines do not constitute a dilettante add-on to higher education , unnoticed if lost .
2 After 16 , A-levels will remain the ‘ gold standard , ’ but schools will teach more vocational courses which will also be used for entry to higher education .
3 Although Sir Frederick Dainton , formerly a chairman of the University Grants Committee , spoke in 1984 of the need for a ‘ global , school-based assessment including profiles to end universities ' reliance on A levels ' for their admissions selection , it is exceedingly unlikely that entry to higher education would ever come to rely on profiles , or any other in-school method of assessment alone .
4 Special prominence was given to the value of community policing within densely populated areas , the value of widening entry to higher education , the meritocratic recruitment of elites , the role of harmony in companies and the Japanese welfare system of ‘ security without entitlement ’ .
5 Table 6.1 Probability of advantaged and disadvantaged school leavers qualifying for entry to Higher Education
6 It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background .
7 They are available at three levels and are aimed primarily at those seeking entry to higher education .
8 Many students will wish to use these modules for entry to higher education , and negotiations on this important area are currently taking place .
9 In some areas new modules have been written to meet the needs of students seeking entry to higher education .
10 Further information on programmes which have so far been developed to enable students to gain entry to Higher Education can be obtained from the Scottish Wider Access Programme ( SWAP ) — see page 22 .
11 In summer 1991 the Government invited SCOTVEC to develop general SVQs to meet the need for broadly-based qualifications which are relevant to employment in a range of related occupations , and also for entry to higher education and further training .
12 Discussions are continuing with the Scottish Universities ' Council on Entrance regarding possible future recognition of the new general SVQ in science at level III for purposes of entry to higher education .
13 Indeed in recent years the CNAA have suggested that the term ‘ non-standard ’ should no longer be used , since this implies a standard from which other students are deviating ; instead we should be considering a range of qualifications , all of which may be suitable as preparations for entry to higher education .
14 Evidence for the importance of preparation for entry to higher education also comes from Yates and Davies ( 1987 ) study of former Access students .
15 Given also the evidence of the weak performance of younger students with more marginal traditional qualifications , it seems likely that if these students gained entry to higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications that their success rates might be expected to be more limited .
16 Admissions tutors are criticised for failing to use CNAA regulations more flexibly and allowing A-levels to continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to higher education .
17 Findings show that A-levels continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to Higher Education .
18 The design of the qualification allows candidates to select groups of modules which are equivalent to Standard Grades for the purposes of entry to further education .
19 Shortage of money was not the only impediment to higher education .
20 Here the issue is one of general educational failure , as measured , for example , by reading age , CSE and O level passes , entrance to Higher Education , etc. ( see , for example , Little , 1975 ; Tomlinson , 1986 ; Rampton , 1979 ; ILEA , 1983 ; Swann , 1985 ) .
21 Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such .
22 Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff :
23 Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ?
24 The latter argument is based partly on the growing importance to higher education of mature students and continuing education .
25 The UK polytechnics have performed a signal service to higher education by showing how professional education can be developed , with practice being placed firmly in a framework of systematic intellectual exploration .
26 Accordingly , we can say that the academic community stands in a direct relationship to research but in an indirect relationship to higher education .
27 This subject will be dealt with fully with respect to higher education in the second part of the chapter .
28 The rate of applications for student loans this year is almost double what it was a year ago , recruitment to higher education is soaring and student numbers have increased by 10 per cent .
29 These policies have largely been abandoned , leading to an increasing social imbalance in recruitment to higher education , militating against the chances of those from working-class and peasant backgrounds .
30 The employers yesterday increased their offer to further education lecturers from 5.3 per cent for the year to April , to 8 per cent , with a £700 one-off , lump sum payment for the 17 months to September next year .
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