Sentence examples for falling academic standards from inspiring English sources

At issue are rising tuition costs and allegedly falling academic standards.

This came at the cost of falling academic standards and poorly performing finances, which would see Stallybrass' authority challenged.

Tells how academic standards fell, and how the curriculum changed with the new student body.

"I called for Brumlik's sacking," he says, "because he had fallen well short of academic standards of decency.

Nothing could better illustrate the sorry level to which academic standards have fallen in many British universities in recent years.

But some of the same inequalities cited in Brown are still evident as 50 million children return to the public schools this month, many of them to failing schools that fall far short of new academic standards being adopted in just about every state.

As a result, he said, thousands of the most able pupils – many from disadvantaged backgrounds – had been left "drifting" through the first few years of secondary school, allowing academic standards to fall and the attainment gap between rich and poor students to widen.

Studies also show that in many African countries, academic standards have been falling rapidly because some universities lack the basic infrastructure needed to cope with massive growth in the student population especially when admission exceeds infrastructure carrying capacity (Konings 2002).

Critics of the system say academic standards have steadily fallen to accommodate increasing numbers of poorly qualified students.

"Legacies aren't the group taking up the most space or the ones who fall well below the academic standard," Ms. Hernandez concluded.

Dewey fell into disgrace, partly because some of his disciples misinterpreted his child-centered philosophy as a license to abandon academic standards, but in larger measure because educational traditionalists and political reactionaries misread his approach as permissiveness.