Sentence examples for above academic from inspiring English sources

That sounds fine, except that the saccharine stories represent a rich commercial opportunity for their government-approved creator, Sali Rayner, and place social conformity above academic excellence.

Athletics had traditionally been valued above academic success, and coaches had routinely pressured teachers to raise the grades of star players to maintain their eligibility.

Now, Dr. Krekshi's larger challenge is to reverse decades of placing political orthodoxy above academic inquiry, reforming a curriculum that forced students to spend years studying Colonel Qaddafi's eccentric Green Book and a faculty he calls "90 percent contaminated".

Page A10 TRIPOLI UNIVERSITY'S REBIRTH Dr. Feisel Krekshi, the new dean of Tripoli University, faces the challenge of reversing decades of placing political orthodoxy above academic inquiry, reforming a curriculum that forced students to spend years studying Colonel Qaddafi's eccentric Green Book and a faculty he calls 90 percent contaminated.

I feel the danger in this is that it puts graduates into a rut within a job market where practical experience increasingly seems to be valued above academic qualifications.

"It makes the school look like it's trying to protect itself and putting its reputation above academic freedom, which a university should never do," she told VICE.

You might have thought that in light of the above, academics would have wanted to protect their students.

Posse focuses on leadership--above academics--when selecting predominantly minority students from low-income families.11 The program's 6-year graduation rate is over 90%, even though Posse students would likely not be admitted to these colleges without the program.

The St Paul's "marathon" is the most obvious example of the emphasis that the school places on physical activity, to complement its above-average academic results.

Taking their cue from this definition, testers have especially scrutinized students with average to above-average academic performance — after all, how can a student do so well and be significantly restricted?

We have detected at least three drawbacks in the above-mentioned academic developments.