A commentator on TheStreet wrote this week, "The fate of for-profit education depends on whether the industry can reinvent itself as a viable competitor to nonprofit education by lowering costs, raising the standards and promoting realistic academic goals that are affordable to many low-income students.
Perhaps high school and college admissions advisers need to provide information about the importance of practical and realistic academic decisions.
Using these emails and recorded interviews for formal summative assessment could measure students' language abilities in realistic academic genres which extend beyond essay writing.
Students are only here for a week, but they get a realistic sense of academic life at Oxford, as well as other activities designed to address as directly as possible some of the barriers they might face in deciding to apply here.
Additionally, give students a realistic view of academic life.
They should have a realistic perspective on academic career prospects and work to reduce emotional and practical dependency on success in academia, Müller says, while acknowledging that "that is, of course, a very hard thing to do".
He eventually began painting in a more realistic and academic style, and by the 1930s he had broken with his avant-garde colleagues and disclaimed his earlier works.
Maybe this seemed like a realistic approach, given the low academic skills many of my students brought to high school but to me, it felt like a sham.
What it meant for many artists at the time was the depiction of observed reality rather than the portrayal of biblical, mythological or historical subjects in a "realistic" (or naturalistic) manner, as the academic painting tradition prescribed.
The report will also have a devastating effect on the post-graduate training of doctors, and its specific legacy with respect to university education will be the end of postgraduate academic medicine as a realistic career pathway in the UK.
