Sentence examples for backgrounds of students from inspiring English sources

Such checks actually go back to at least the 1950's, when the United States wanted to prevent the transfer of technology to Communist countries, although consulates seldom scrutinized the backgrounds of students or visiting scholars.

Then consider the socio-economic backgrounds of the students likely to be forced into courses on £7,500 or less, and the backgrounds of students still likely to proceed on to degrees at £9,000 per year.

"What the court said is that diversity isn't about race, it's about the individual backgrounds of students," said Mr. Parks, who has long been active in working against racial preference systems.

"Affordability is absolutely a key part of what we are here to do," says Gillies. "In our view, to charge a £9,000 fee for a large number of our courses would be really restricting the backgrounds of students".

Indeed, if last spring's New York City test scores for charter schools were subjected to a more sophisticated analysis that took into account the backgrounds of students in charter and regular public schools, it is not clear that charters would fare as positively as they did on the state's eighth-grade exam.

Given large differences in academic preparation due to differences in the family backgrounds of students and the quality of the primary and secondary schools they attended, there is little scope for dramatic shifts in graduation outcomes by re-sorting of students across campuses33.

Indeed, there should not be an achievement gap by the racial or ethnic background of students, or their socioeconomic backgrounds.

The government does not produce decent statistics on the class background of students, so it knows little of how its money to widen access is spent, and the relationship between universities and local schools is random.

People at Leeds are not just worried about the funding cuts affecting (and directly leading to the closure of) their faculties, but also the extent to which this will change the socio-economic background of students here in the future.

Therefore the socio-economic background of students in semi-private schools is likely to be superior to that of students in public schools.

One of the studies by Kristiansen & Indarti (2004) affirmed that there is no statistically significant impact of age, gender & educational background of students on their entrepreneurial inclination.