Sentence examples for by aptitude from inspiring English sources
The culprits are selection by ability, by aptitude, by faith and postcode.
Labour may indeed be trying to extend selection by allowing "specialist" schools to select a proportion of pupils "by aptitude".
Are women in science and engineering limited by aptitude, as Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard famously put it, or by patterns of discrimination?
Some former grammars have retained the right to select a proportion of pupils by ability, and some specialist schools are allowed to pick up to 10% by aptitude.
Mossbourne does not even use the provision to select a tenth of pupils by "aptitude", and it bands applicants to ensure an all-ability intake.
On the other hand it is encouraging schools to develop a specialism (eg, technology or music) and is allowing such schools to select up to 10% of their intake by aptitude for the specialist subject.
The specialist schools, in particular, illustrate current confusions.Some of the specialist schools stand accused of setting tests which select not by particular aptitude but (oh, horror) by general ability.
In this way, playing a game is closer to reading a book, where the rate of consumption is dictated by the aptitude (or interest) of its consumer.
He was helped by an aptitude for blending reserve wines, a gift that allowed him to create one of the world's most sippable Champagnes, Krug Grande Cuvée NV.
Ayyan is Arvind's personal assistant at the institute, a wily sweeper's son of the untouchable caste with an affinity for mischief equaled only by his aptitude for it.
It would indeed be a good thing if New Labour completed its U-turn on selection and encouraged the creation of a wider variety of schools with a range of admissions policies, allowing some to select all of their intake by either aptitude in one subject or overall ability.In the meantime, the government is prepared to risk undermining some of Britain's best schools.
