Sentence examples for students from modest from inspiring English sources

There were fewer bright students from modest backgrounds.

The Chancellor of Exchequer's Pre-Budget Report promised a ray of hope to students from modest backgrounds struggling with access to the established professions.

Like many centrist Democrats, she prefers to talk about expanding opportunity while proposing individual measures with a redistributive aspect, such as providing child care for working mothers and expanding financial aid for students from modest backgrounds.

"Harvard will also travel with Princeton, Yale, and the University of Virginia to visit 20 more cities in the fall, reaching out to students from modest economic backgrounds," said Kanoe Lum Williams, assistant director of joint travel.

Even though Harvard has restored early admission starting next year (as have Princeton and UVA), all three institutions will continue this travel to reach out to students from modest economic backgrounds.

America's leadership role in the world in the next generation will be profoundly affected by whether or not we are able to make it possible for students from modest and poor economic backgrounds to achieve the American dream.

That is a problem for a coalition government committed to fairness, and the government is making it a problem for the universities.For the past six years the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has prodded universities to admit more students from modest backgrounds and from state schools.

While we have restored early admission to meet the rising demand for this option and have instituted changes to encourage students from modest economic backgrounds to apply early we hope all students will use early admission in a thoughtful manner and only when it is appropriate for their individual needs.

The distance that one of my students travels from modest A-level or BTec results to actually becoming a lawyer or an accountant is value added, which is how we would expect to be assessed," he says.

This is an extravagance all the more galling for the plight of many students who come from modest means, must skimp and save to attend, and are still loaded down with debt when they leave, critics say.

It is a very good system, but what Laura Spence has been offered is what any US student from a modest background would get from Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and the rest.