Sentence examples for lay schools from inspiring English sources

The first official lay schools came later and for a long time constituted a weak minority.

In the absence of lay schools, Rongbuk gave Gombu an education; but he was a reluctant novitiate who decided that the Buddhist monastic life was not for him.

Do we believe that resources are best used to set up lay schools - or do we work with existing religious institutions, even when the literacy they foster will come bearing views of society and civil rights that differ from our own?

"He founded the first lay school in Chile and was a Senator of the Radical party, which meant that he took a strong position against the old clerical conservatism.

The intervention was delivered by a lay school health counsellor who had attained a minimum of a high school education.

This paper reports on a case study of a lay school health counsellor led health promotion programme in secondary schools in Goa, India.

In settings where adolescent school health promotion is constrained by a shortage of teachers, health educators and qualified counsellors to deliver programmes, a lay school health counsellor could provide a scalable option for implementing health promotion in schools.

This paper presents a case study of a multi-component school health promotion intervention in India that was delivered by lay school health counsellors, who possessed neither formal educational nor health provider qualifications.

A task-shifting approach of delegating school health promotion activities to lay school health counsellors rather than education or health professionals shows promise of effectiveness as a scalable model for promoting the health and well being of school based adolescents in resource constrained settings.

The feasibility, acceptability and preliminary evidence indicative of impact of the lay school health counsellor delivered HPS programme suggest that this could be a promising model for definitive evaluation, and for subsequent scaling up of school health promotion, particularly where qualified teachers and health professionals are in short supply.

School leaders said the proposals were unreasonable and unworkable, and that neither the blame for nor the solution to violent crime lay with schools.