Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' educational [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These ideas became the basis for the Parents ' Educational Union , which was established in 1887 in Bradford . |
2 | The Workers ' Educational Trade Union Committee ( WETUC ) |
3 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
4 | The decision to wind up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers ' Educational Association . |
5 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
6 | That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed . |
7 | That the Workers ' Educational Association recognises its particular responsibility for the furtherance of liberal studies , at a time when stress is increasingly laid on the need to encourage and aid the development of technical education . |
8 | Now , by a quirk of history , the machinery for carrying out such schemes of training in drama was not to be found in normal educational administration , but in the huge network of social services administered by the National Council of Social Services , a voluntary body financed by Carnegie Trust which since 1919 had co-ordinated the work of various national organisations such as the Village Drama Society , County Rural Community Councils , British Drama League , the Federation of Women 's Institutes , the National Association of Boys ' Clubs , Townswomen 's Guilds , the Workers ' Educational Association , County Youth Committees , the Standing Conference of Drama Associations and Hull University 's Extra-Mural Department , the only university to take interest in Community Drama . |
9 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
10 | Sadler 's inquiry joined many other calls for a comprehensive extension of day-time continued education : government committees , teachers ' organizations , the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) , the Labour Party , and the Liberal-inspired Education Reform Council all asserted their approval , Nor was the issue ignored by the House of Commons where between 1908 and 1914 a number of Bills were presented without success . |
11 | The university works in partnership with bodies including the Workers ' Educational Association , councils and independent adult education centres . |
12 | Even within more formal patterns of education , initiatives ranged from those which tended increasingly towards the institutionalization of a national system overseen by the state ( Education Acts from 1870 to 1902 and beyond ; the formation of School Boards and Education Authorities and a national Board of Education ( 1899 ) ) to a number of semi-state programmes such as , from the 1870s , the national " extension movement " , the National Council of Adult Schools Association , and later , the Workers ' Educational Association . |
13 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
14 | This element of self-improvement recurs throughout the accounts of working-class leisure organizations founded on principles of social concern and there is a clear overlap of membership with , for example , the Fabian Society and later in the century , the Workers ' Educational Association . |
15 | The course is designed for part-time teachers of adults in a wide range of organisations and educational establishments such as further education colleges , the Workers ' Educational Association , the Services , prisons , hospitals , libraries and voluntary organizations . |
16 | The traditional liberal approach to adult education as exemplified in the University Extension and WEA movements ( from the 1870s and 1900s respectively ) formed the core of the approach of the responsible Bodies ( RBs : that is , University Adult Education ( UAE ) Departments and the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) ) in the inter-war years , and , in their period of greatest growth , from the 1940s through until the late 1970s . |
17 | At the Home Farm Trust , run by the Workers ' Educational Association , Medau classes for residents now go into their tenth year . |