Sentence examples for centres for learning from inspiring English sources

Save the Children called on world leaders to protect education by criminalising attacks, prohibiting the use of schools by armed groups, and working with schools and communities to preserve schools as centres for learning – especially in a conflict.

In the 20th century the Ramakrishna Mission, a religiously inclusive reform group originally organized under the leadership of its founder Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, also established mathas to house its monks and to act as centres for learning and the propagation of its teachings.

Gina Wisker is professor of higher education and contemporary literature and head of the centre for learning and teaching at the University of Brighton.

One of the desecrated sites was the Sidi Yahya mosque, built in 1440 when Timbuktu was a regional centre for learning.

In memory of his daughter he founded the Jane Holland Creative Centre for Learning at Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland, which promoted his passionate belief in non-racial education.

The grade two listed Cornerstone building, at the Creative Campus is an imposing example of 19th century architecture transformed by an award-winning and sensitive restoration into a 21st century centre for learning.

Even the venue for this weekend's festival, Dartington Hall, was a 500-year old wreck – until a couple of western Tagoreans bought it and, at his urging, transformed it into a centre for learning and agricultural work and to reinvigorate an impoverished rural community.

The university is intended to be a peaceful centre for learning, yet, it resembles a fortress [45].

It would attract experts in all kinds of BDSM or fetish play so it would really be a centre for learning.

I for one am looking forward to the advent of rocket schools – exceptional centres of learning for maths, science and computing that will help build the new (space-based) worlds of tomorrow.

Mr. Panezai adds that the centres provide opportunities for learning, socializing and recreation – including opportunities for children who were earlier excluded from the education system.