Sentence examples for steering students from inspiring English sources

"We're steering students toward the classes where they are predicted to make better grades," Mr. Denley says.

But instead of steering students toward the best opportunities and encouraging them to value their work, many institutions of higher learning are complicit in helping companies skirt a nebulous area of labor law.

COLLEGE LOAN CASES Fast-tracking a case that had been initiated just before he took office, Mr. Cuomo quickly amassed evidence that colleges were steering students to lenders that gave the colleges kickbacks or furnished insiders with various goodies.

The code, which came as a result of a continuing investigation by the attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, prohibits practices including giving a university money or other incentives in exchange for steering students to a particular lender.

Mr. Cuomo said his office had sent subpoenas and document requests to dozens of universities around the country, demanding information about arrangements with student loan companies that rewarded college athletic departments with payments for steering students to particular lenders.

In January, the New York attorney general's office sent subpoenas to 15 universities seeking data about how they administer their study-abroad programs and whether they receive cash bonuses, junkets or other perks for steering students to particular programs.

He has criticized a range of tactics including "kickbacks" to universities for steering student loan volume to companies and paying consulting fees to university aid administrators who provide students with information on where to borrow.

Bombeke et al's study [ 28] describes the "doctor-as-person as a central phenomenon steering student's patient-centredness".

Other Med Into Grad programs offer more targeted pieces of the medical school curriculum to science students--for example, steering neuroscience students toward neuroanatomy courses.

After his extracurricular activities — steering fellow students toward online casinos for a small commission — land him in trouble with the dean, Richie gambles his tuition money at an Internet poker site.

Even in this arena of cultural and educational links, United States diplomats say they hope to gain leverage over Iran — whose political influence here is vast and likely to grow after the departure of the American military — by steering more students and academics toward American ideas and, hopefully, more opportunities to study in the United States.