Premier Norman Manley was a Rhodes Scholar (1914), awarded annually by the Oxford based Rhodes Trust on the basis of academic achievement and character.
Obama, for his part, sallied forth from a solid base of academics and well-educated professionals, as well as African Americans.
Since many people who fit into the targeted user base of academics, techies and subject experts have high incomes, he said, they'll be able to afford two or all three of those services.
Based on academic studies of the effect of changes to voter ID laws, we had estimated that the law would have reduced turnout in Pennsylvania by 2 percent and reduced President Obama's margin relative to Mitt Romney by about 1 percentage point.
Mr Gove said he wanted vocational courses to be "complemented by a base of core academic knowledge".
Minnich's 1990 book, Transforming Knowledge, draws on both a feminist critique and pragmatist practices to advocate for a rethinking of the patriarchal assumptions at the base of our academic traditions.
Motivated by the clinical issues facing the practitioner, ideas for research that arose directly from practice were systematically solicited and developed through dedicated workshops and events and then linked with the perspectives and skill base of the academic partners.
Participants from both groups remarked that through these links and relationships (usually fostered by the network chair and network manager) opportunities emerged for i) project up-scale, that is expansion of the reach and scope of the project; ii) social marketing of network achievements and iii) engaging a broader base of clinical, academic and policy-maker groups.
The third recommendation is to create diverse groups based on academic abilities of the student and expertise of the teacher.
Finally, Lowell — and his counterparts at Yale and Princeton — realized that if a definition of merit based on academic prowess was leading to the wrong kind of student, the solution was to change the definition of merit.
