"apart from schools" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means "excluding schools" or "not including schools." Example: "Apart from schools, there are many other factors that contribute to a child's academic success."
Few environments, apart from schools, were single-sex, she said.
An awkward compromise is proposed: no new selective schools will be allowed, apart from schools with a specialist flavour (such as music or languages), which will be allowed to select by ability in their specialist subject.
Apart from grammar schools, schools are not allowed to select on ability, except for some schools with subject specialisms, which can prioritise up to 10% of their intake on aptitude for the given specialism.
How many people in this country, apart from school children, are required to attend daily worship?
And yet there are many people who get through their entire lives without ever reading a novel apart from school assignments.
In 2010 a study by Egypt's government found that, apart from school textbooks, 88% of Egyptian households read no books.The degree to which a government keeps control of the textbooks used in classrooms is a good, if imprecise, guide to its commitment to ideological control.
But the persistence of the brutal and dangerous custom, despite an official ban and public-awareness campaigns, is disturbing.A government survey this year found that, apart from school textbooks, 88% of Egyptian households read no books, and three-quarters of families do not read any newspapers or magazines either.
Consider two workers, an immigrant from country j and a native-born, who are identical in observed characteristics X i j = X i can, apart from schooling level, and earn the same wage net of country fixed effects.
But apart from school books that need to be read, parents should not force books on their children and should let them read what they like - whether that is comics or football magazines - so they realise reading is fun.
But I never saw anyone else apart from school kids in there, ever.
To examine the potential of changes that may have occurred apart from school curriculum, results in experimental schools were compared with one control school district, where no differences were observed.
