Sentence examples for academic attributes from inspiring English sources

LIKE countless other high school guidance counselors, Lloyd Thacker has never believed that the academic attributes of colleges could be tabulated and ranked like the won-lost records of professional football teams.

Mamphela Ramphele, a wise and nonpartisan anti-apartheid activist and academic, attributes this in part to the sense of impotence that infected South Africans — and not just blacks — under the bleak tyranny of apartheid.

Placing professional attributes on the same level as other academic attributes helps "legitimise" professional behaviour as a core requirement.

A recent paper by Canadian and Chinese academics attributes this growth to the creation in 1995 of the five-day working week as the norm, and the subsequent introduction of "Golden Week" holidays.

Are these non-academic attributes just "extras" -- luxuries that schools serving poor or working class kids just can't afford?

Non-academic attributes are assessed in various ways and may include references, veterinary and/or animal experience, extracurricular activities, volunteer and work experiences, personal statements/essays and interviews.

The non-academic attributes listed in this document, along with the attributes found in the Pew Report and the Lewis and Klausner paper [ 3, 6] were compared and found to have overlap and similarities.

These findings may be supported by Powis & Bristow who found an association between high academic and poor structured interview scores, suggesting that selection based heavily on academic attainment may weigh against the non-academic attributes we seek [ 63].

Some academics attribute the holiness of Jerusalem to the rise and expansion of a certain type of literary genre, known as al-Fadhail or history of cities.

Initially an administrative body with some judicial duties, the Chancery experienced an explosive growth in its work during the 15th century, particularly under the House of York, which academics attribute to its becoming an almost entirely judicial body.

Academic Mark Rose attributes the efforts of Milton to promote the "bourgeois public sphere", along with the Glorious Revolution's alterations to the political system and the rise of public coffee houses, as the source of growing public unhappiness with the system.