Sentence examples for diploma up from inspiring English sources

Degree-holders earn more than 80 percent more than their peers with just a high school diploma, up from about 40 percent more as of the late 1970s.

City students continued to struggle with the math exam last year: 74.4percentt of those who were supposed to graduate in June met the standard for a Regents diploma, up from 72percentt last year.

The resulting course was successful in relatively rapidly bringing a class doing a "bridging" diploma up to the level required for dealing with a second-year course.

And Paulie, who got his high school equivalency diploma up here in Alaska, where I recently attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a new shelter with many more beds.

Intermediate entries rose by more than a third to just under 14,000 as the exams were rolled out to more schools, with the pass rate for Intermediate diplomas up from 73% in 2012 to 79%.

In his experience, a school's diploma makes up about 40 percent of a candidate's prospects, with grades, experience, background and the actual job interview constituting the rest.

"It's just not realistic," said Alan Lazarus, director of funded programs for the Brentwood School District, where 34percentt of students received a Regents diploma last year, up from 28percentt in 2001.

With the few dollars we had left after framing that diploma, picking up the roses and paying for our lunch on commencement weekend, we bought some gas to drive home and help our graduate start looking for a job.

There is a payoff for the long bus rides: The 48 SandHoke seniors are in a fast-track program that allows them to earn their high-school diploma and up to two years of college credit in five years — completely free.

Banks can't foreclose on a college education, but I would guess that given the option, many college graduates, both employed and unemployed, wish that they could erase their student loans in exchange for a hit on their credit score and having their diploma torn up and being legally prevented from claiming any college attendance.I don't think this is a particularly apt analogy.

"My Hopkins diploma opened up doors that otherwise would have been closed, and allowed me to live the American dream," he wrote.