Sentence examples for focused academic from inspiring English sources
Besides a strong and focused academic record, he also looked at extracurricular activities.
"I'm a dilettante, I choose from all different things," she explains, "I'm not like a focused academic".
Besides a more hands-on, small-group, individually focused academic environment in the classroom, students also receive group and individual sessions with a psychologist.
Most students choose their major before going to a university, and then enter highly focused academic programs in which they have only a handful of electives.
Mr. Kroll also thought that Vance would benefit from focused academic help, so he introduced him to Ms. Goldberg, a 30-year-old investment analyst for General Motors who had volunteered with the board to tutor a teenager.
"It's a complete globalization of the system," said Mr. Dupasquier: not only are more recruiters looking across borders for hires, but national recruiters are increasingly looking for the same thing in graduates: work experience and practical know-how, social and communication skills, motivation and willingness to learn, rather than narrowly focused academic qualifications.
"This kind of collaboration would be unlikely to happen in England," says Rudd. "In the UK, collaborations tend to be between a small number of laboratories and we would ask relatively focused, academic-type questions.
He left to form Fulcrum Learning which runs parental engagement programmes, focused on academic development.
She went to a small private school which was "very focused, very academic - but there was no extra-curriculum".
