After all, many medical schools these days are the recipients of a surfeit of cadavers for their students because the schools are allowed to pay for the funerals and cremations or burials of people who donate their bodies for medical purposes.
That's why many of the student competitions so popular in business schools these days take the form of business pitches, generally in the form of small teams making well-rehearsed presentations before panels of experts.
Example: Dade County's other public schools run for 180 days, while the Ryder school year will last 200.
Drivers have been warned about ice and snow on the roads of Herefordshire and Worcestershire as schools reopened after several days of wintry weather.
Hell, the Big East is in such bad shape these days that schools that were excited to join the conference months ago may now rescind those intentions.
All KIPP schools have longer school days and most have some kind of paycheck system for motivating students, and all are staffed largely by young, nonunion, still motivated teachers.
Chief Supt Gardner said local officers were conducting "reassurance patrols" and would be working with the local authority and fire brigade, as well as local schools in the coming days.
Some popular American charter schools now offer longer school days and shorter summer holidays.
Groups from five or more schools meet occasionally for study days.
Schools typically receive just two days' notice of an inspection rather than the previous long notice period of six to ten weeks, which led to anxiety among teaching staff.
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Most schools will have just one or two days' notice of an inspection visit.
Law schools are kinder, gentler places these days, with more experiential learning and collegial relationships between students and professors.
The Federation of Small Businesses has criticised head teachers for closing schools too readily, saying lost working days are affecting many companies.
Many schools saw applications stagnate during the heady days of the late 90s dot-com boom, only for demand to soar when the bubble burst and budding tycoons decided they could safely step away from the business cauldron for a while to improve their skills.
It would also sharply reduce independent schools' fundraising efforts which these days are directed largely towards bursaries.
And now, under the coalition's academy programme, schools or groups of schools will have more freedom to vary their days and terms.
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In addition to kind of asking them to do so today, what will you do in the coming days to try to get more schools on board?
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, estimates that schools, once open between 180 and 200 days a year the shortest period in South Asia are now functioning only 100 days a year.
And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Welsh government policy is that parents should not normally take pupils on holiday during term time but schools have the discretion to grant up to 10 days authorised absence for this purpose.
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Aberdeen's schools were re-opening after two in-service days, leading to busier rush-hour traffic in the snow.
Despite great resistance in Charlotte to the busing order in the early days, the city boomed after the last schools had been integrated in 1975.
It also links attendance to attainment in schools, citing research which found pupils who miss 17 days of school can drop a GCSE grade across all subjects.
The Ucas spokesman stressed that the December sampling point was a few days before the end of term for many schools and suggested that many applications would have come in after that.
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In Birmingham, the city where my constituency is, there are some of our inner city schools that are 98% Muslim and they do well and we have many examples of good multiracial schools and we ought to hang onto that in the days and weeks to come.
Whether schools had these resources when I was in college in the days of big hair and WHAM!
But the current moves by schools to start earlier don't affect the number of days of instruction, which are generally set in teacher contracts.
The schools and day care centers were told to close for 14 days as investigators tried to identify the source of the infection, said Tsang, the chief executive.
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Local schools, including Christchurch school, have also held non-uniform days to raise money.
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Mr Gove said that some academies (state schools outside local authority control), were already running longer school days while others had changed the structure of their school terms.
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