Sentence examples for academies compared from inspiring English sources

There are now 1,529 academies, compared with 200 in the last days of Labour.

In recent years, Asian Americans have been significantly overrepresented at the military academies compared to their share of the national population.

What's interesting is to look at academies and the freedoms that those academies have compared with other schools.

The head of the air-transport academy publicly compared the cadets to Pussy Riot, the protest group whose members were sentenced to two years in jail for attempting to dance in a cathedral.

In Austria, about 70% of prospective teachers had completed a commercial high school, e.g., a commercial academy (Handelswakademie), compared to about 40% in Germany.

However, this time there is a difference in scale thanks to the extent of Gove's reforms: 45% of all state maintained secondary schools are now academies or about to convert, and there are now 1,529 academies in England, compared with 200 when the coalition came to power.

In my mind's eye, I saw a multi-ethnic inner-city academy school comparing Shakespeare's Othello and Zadie Smith's White Teeth in the light of questions of race, then using the poetry of John Clare as a way of exploring the profound connection between human society and the natural environment.

More primary schools than secondaries have academy status – 2,299 compared with 1,884 – but currently 60% of secondaries have academy status compared to 13% of primaries.

The Times's analysis compared academy graduates with both new and experienced principals citywide, while the report by N.Y.U.

Of the men, 69% had acquired a music academy master degree compared with 80% of the women.

It also claims that sponsored primary academies improve their test results at more than double the rate of non-academies – 9 percentage points compared to 4 percentage points after two years.