"It would send out a message that the university is not able to resist political interference and is unable to separate politics from academics, which is a basic requirement for those trying to carry out decent academic work," he said.
With such a large number of bowls, organizers scrambled to fill slots with three teams that finished with losing records — but decent academic scores.
'Our people' were generations of students whose school life had flitted by without them gaining so much as an elementary level of learning, judged by any decent academic standard". Like most villages, Haji explained, the only school in Breswana had been a poorly-run public school, with two or three teachers and hundreds of students.
With U.S. colleges enthralled by the prospect of full-tuition international students, and a range of businesses willing to falsify applications for students, admission is easier than ever for rich Chinese students with decent academics and some modicum of English.
Though he will be remembered as a great Shakespearean, Howard also, in 1981, created a major new role: as Halder, an apparently humane and decent German academic who progressively becomes a Nazi, in CP Taylor's drama Good.
It is preserving what is left of the almost invisible amateur status of college athletes and trying to assure what might be their only hope of a decent future -- academic achievement.
Though the concerns this book brings into focus--for decent character and academic literacy--may never be trendy or easily applied, Lessons from Privilege presents sensible, powerful, and profitable ideas for enhancing the humanity and dignity of education in America.
In many communities, social norms do not encourage academic achievement, decent values or family stability.
Bizarre is the word that strikes me: a room full of about 40 decent, experienced, intelligent people – academics, lawyers, campaigners and politicians – treating each other with the utmost courtesy while they traded points about a new bill of rights and responsibilities.
In addition to my academic pursuits, I am a decent fiddler, a half decent jeweler, and a pretty bad dog trainer.
What we demand - free education, universal living grants, decent pay and contracts for all academic staff, freedom from police repression, the decolonisation of the curriculum, and more - can only be won in our communities and on our campuses.
