Example sentences of "majority of students " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of students become acclimatised to these sensations after a few flights , but every instructor is aware that some students are particularly sensitive to these feelings and can develop a total abhorrence of stalling and pitching manoeuvres . |
| 2 | There is a further factor that feminists have drawn attention to , which is that the majority of students of English are women , whereas the majority of academics teaching it are male , and that the female students have a built-in deference to male teachers and to the minority of male students . |
| 3 | Clearly this offers no solution for the majority of students from low-income families , while for most rural children no such alternatives exist . |
| 4 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 5 | Although the majority of students — some eighty per cent — come from the province , there is a cosmopolitan character about the student population . |
| 6 | For the majority of students to succeed and become a teacher is not the dream it once was ; nor does the possession of the title ‘ teacher ’ enjoy the prestige with family and friends which was once common . |
| 7 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 8 | Though the great majority of students never became deeply involved in radical activity , those who did , together with pupils lower down the education ladder , made up over half the 7,000–8,000 political offenders of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 9 | Another general observation worth making is that , whereas in the past the majority of students at British colleges were likely to be male ( except perhaps on specialized vocational courses such as fashion design , hairdressing or nursing ) , higher and further education in Britain now attracts almost equal numbers of men and women students . |
| 10 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 11 | It contained the majority of students in post-compulsory education . |
| 12 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 13 | This chapter may stimulate them to contribute to the effort of welding together insights from different disciplines , rather than , as the majority of students seem to do , keeping their finance lenses firmly in place when reading finance texts and then changing to sociological lenses when reading sociology . |
| 14 | Entry qualifications are generally the same , that is five O level GCE passes or their equivalent , as those required to continue on to degree and other higher level courses , which is indeed what the great majority of students do when they have successfully completed their foundation courses . |
| 15 | It is also the case that the great majority of students entering advanced courses in art and design have come from foundation courses , a few having come from school with GCE A level passes in art . |
| 16 | As far as the former are concerned , the term ‘ advanced ’ is applied to vocational courses in the sense that the level of work achieved is similar to that of other high-level courses , although the entry standards may sometimes be lower , and the majority of students taking them have already successfully completed Foundation Courses . |
| 17 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 19 | if , during a dictation practice , the majority of students have an abnormally high number of spelling errors , one might infer that the teacher has either dictated too fast or chosen a passage too difficult for the level of that class . |
| 20 | The majority of students have not felt obliged to take out loans as they have not thought it necessary . |
| 21 | These increases will have resulted in the vast majority of students being better off overall . |
| 22 | Last year the majority of students did not take up their loan facility . |
| 23 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 24 | As indicated earlier it is not essential for the findings to be communicated by means of a written report , but it is likely that this will be the mode adopted by the majority of students . |
| 25 | By far the majority of students spend their years at University with a minimum of uncertainty but when difficulties arise , the Director of Studies is there to help . |
| 26 | An ordinary BSc degree may be taken at the end of the third year but the majority of students proceed to the fourth year of the BEng honours degree . |
| 27 | It is clear that the majority of students entering higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications are mature students , and the research which we have been discussing deals almost exclusively with students who are not just non-traditional entrants but also mature . |
| 28 | However the vast majority of students entering higher education do so on the basis of Highers or A-levels , and a definition of non-traditional which refers to students entering on the basis of qualifications other than the minimum prescribed Highers or A-levels or equivalent qualifications seems to be the most useful one . |
| 29 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 30 | It was emphasised that only limited information was available about the performance of Access students in higher education , and that the vast majority of students who had completed their higher education course came from one Access course . |