Sentence examples for standard schools from inspiring English sources

Determined to end long NHS waiting lists and improve "bog standard" schools, Blair more than doubled health spending and was almost as generous to education.

Small firms are less likely to provide apprenticeships or work experience.Many countries are now trying to bridge the gap between education and work by upgrading vocational schools, encouraging standard schools to form closer relations with local companies, and embracing apprenticeships.

A department for education spokesman said Gove's letter had been sent via the government's standard schools email route because it was the quickest and most efficient way to get messages to schools, and was also published on Governornet, the website for governors.

Our standard schools are not, by any stretch of imagination, democratic communities.

That means no more sink schools and no more 'bog standard' schools either.

Along with the science-based medicine now considered standard, schools teaching "diverse types of medicine, [including] osteopathic, homeopathic, chiropractic, eclectic, physiomedical, botanic and Thomsonian" flourished, with students and patients choosing the one they liked best.

For financial reasons, the districts have not added substantially to the standard school year, which is about 180 days.

This approach to cutting costs is possible because Oregon requires only that districts adhere to a "standard school year," Mr. Evans said.

Then came "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an autobiographical love story destined to become -- too late for Hurston -- a perennial best-seller and standard school text.

The Russian edition was particularly successful and became a standard school textbook, possibly as a documentary account of life in the heart of the capitalist empire.

The pass mark for the matric, the standard school-leavers' exam, has been cut to as low as 30% for some subjects.