Some, such as the Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford and the School of the Damned in east London, were set up by art students and recent graduates who could not afford rising course fees and were dissatisfied with the structure, ethos and curricula of traditional art degrees.
The NHS is always changing and over time, successive governments have attempted to put down their own markers, trying to shape the structures and ethos of the NHS according to their own outlook and ideology.
The structure and ethos of good, safe, science is ingrained into UK research culture.
In the last few months, the structure and ethos underlying Fortress Germany have begun to crack like a house on a California fault line.
Take for example Benefit Corporations (more commonly known as B Corps) and how this sort of structure and ethos could aid many of the ills found within for-profit corporations today, specifically with respect to employee engagement.
This ethos structures decision-making processes and norm development around an exploration of controversies.
"The Company's ownership structure, its unique ethos and purpose, and the recent diversification of its portfolio offer some protection from the current economic storm.
Although the Islamists of the Brotherhood have dominated elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, another broad segment of the population harbors deep suspicions of the group's conservative ideology, hierarchical structure and insular ethos.
Instead, the new civil rights movement combines localised power structures with an inclusive ethos that consciously incorporates women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activists.
In retrospect, the crew's composition might look like tokenism, but cultural differences were also integral to the show's ethos and structure.
