Sentence examples for universities backed from inspiring English sources

The threatened "robust and challenging" regime for universities, backed by numerical targets for admission of students from poor homes, has given way to much softer criteria.

ADS, the trade body that represents the aerospace and defence sector, said major advances in mobile communications, flatscreen televisions and the systems that led to the development of the internet all came from universities backed by defence industry investment.

Students at at least five other universities backed up her claims; some said they were working 12 hours a day.

But faculty at the state's universities — backed by national higher education groups — say he is risking the quality and prestige of one of the country's leading state universities to fuel his presidential ambitions.

It helps to have many universities backing the project.

Sheffield University had initially threatened to further dock pay but the university backed down after staff protests.

The university backed the school authorities' contentions that her posting was "unprofessional" and might "promote under-age drinking".

This article was amended on 28 August 2013 to reflect that the university backed down and admitted 1,800 students.

The university, backed by the big guns of academia, argues that the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, forbids disclosure of such information — and threatens the loss of federal financing if it hands over private records.

Instead, the university backs a London-wide student representative body, to include the rapid growth in the city's higher and further education institutions outside the University of London.

A native English speaker with a BSc in psychology from a UK university back-translated the Italian version into English.