Sentence examples for calling for university from inspiring English sources

A child of a schoolteacher and city planner from Ohio, she'd gone to Yale, where she majored in African-American studies and helped organize protests calling for university divestment from apartheid South Africa.

In June, for example, the council worked with Mr. Lieberman on a Congressional resolution calling for university trustees and administrators and state officials to press colleges to require students to take United States history to graduate.

At the British Council's Going Global conference in Dubai this week, a manifesto calling for university rankings to take the gender gap into account was discussed by an international grouping of senior women.

Organizers are calling for university and secondary school students to take to the streets in what they are calling a "national day of action" against plans by the Conservative-led coalition government to almost triple tuition, up to $14,500 a year.

There is precedent for this kind of state-level action – after the US's failure to sign the Kyoto protocol in the 2000s, a student group called Kyoto Now had similar objectives, calling for university campuses to draw up their own climate action plans in line with the Kyoto agreement.

I understand that Research Councils UK, the umbrella body for the seven research councils, is privately calling for universities to be exempted from the regulations.

Unsurprisingly, the HMC isn't calling for universities to give greater priority to students from comprehensives, which would be a nod in the right direction for social mobility.

In 1993, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) published a White Paper called 'Realising our potential (DTI 1993)', calling for universities to play a key role in national innovation and competitiveness.

Education Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Ms Stacey earlier this year, calling for universities to become more involved in A-levels, so they could better prepare students for degree courses.

This has been a repeated theme from Mr Gove, who has been calling for universities to play a greater part in the exam system.

On Dec. 10, a new strike was called for university students of all categories, in all the universities of France.