They worried U.Va. was falling behind in innovative digital technologies like online learning, and they wanted more accountability in faculty productivity and academic quality.
It was during those hard times that Harvard combined cautious asset management with a strategy of adding genuine value in the form of improved academic quality.
Students with lower-than-average SAT scores tended to have a stronger preference for schools known for athletic success, while students with higher SAT scores preferred institutions with greater academic quality.
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Higher education cannot make college rankings go away, but increased transparency and cooperation could lead to rankings that better promote true academic quality than any that have come before.
Kentucky's colleges have increased efforts to promote online education, and are also taking steps that could hurt academic quality, such as reducing course offerings and increasing the use of adjunct faculty.
Releasing NSSE, CLA, and post-graduate success data would be a good first step toward more transparency and would allow the producers of academic quality rankings to better serve both the consumers of and investors in colleges and universities.
As the standards movement gained strength in the early 1990s, however, educational and political leaders at the state, district, and even school levels began to show greater interest in how other countries defined academic quality and how U.S. students fared in relation to their peers in other nations.
For the last nine years, the guides have ranked career prospects for graduates among its other ratings like academic experience, quality of life and best professors.
For the last eight years, the guides have included a ranking of career prospects for graduates among its other ratings like academic experience, quality of life and best professors.
The UNITWIN G-PhEd Network will act as a new mechanism for the work of the FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce, which has been dedicated to developing tools and resources to help tackle challenges of academic capacity, quality assurance of educational systems and workforce competency in both high-resource and low-resource pharmacy education institutions.
The guide's league table is compiled using a number of criteria including student satisfaction, research quality, academic peer review, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, drop-out rates and graduate employment levels.
Harvard has been a strong proponent of using business cases in its MBA degree courses for years and believes the technique can be used by others to improve the quality of their academic offerings.
The Council of Great City Schools, a research and policy group that represents large districts, commissioned a study that found districts making the most progress had stable leadership, high academic goals for students, quality professional development for teachers and data analysis that helped alter teaching.
Evidence has recently mounted that quality preschool can boost academic achievement and job-earning potential.
The aim is true: to give these girls 10 years of quality school education and academic support.
These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.
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"We have ambitious plans for growth and Jaguar Land Rover is committed to providing the highest quality of both practical and academic training to develop future talent for the business, " she added.
Richard Suttmeier, a University of Oregon expert on Chinese science policy, said China hasn't figured out "the right formula" to pioneer new technologies in part because researchers are rewarded according to the number of academic papers they publish rather than the quality and novelty of their work.
Service manager Blanka Hubena said the university launched the pilot scheme as something useful to the community which would provide quality training for students and opportunities for academic research.
Alison Johnston is the CEO and cofounder of InstaEDU, an online tutoring company that makes it possible for student to get high-quality, one-on-one academic support the moment they need it.
Every single one of the assertions he claims to be untrue is, in reality, backed up by high quality evidence, from systematic reviews of the academic literature.
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They called for all Catholic trustees to endorse a phased transition away from the use of academic selection and for all boards of governors of Catholic Schools to engage with each other during the coming academic year to discuss how to move to "high quality non-selective arrangements within their area".
Several academic studies in the 1970s and '80s found that licensure boosted quality in professions such as dentistry, optometry, plumbing and real-estate sales.
There is no question that these are fantastic universities at which to earn a high quality education and carry that brand name and reputation for academic rigor with you into the workplace.
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The Ethics Teacher Training Course (ETTC) is designed to reinforce the capacity of experts and educators to teach ethics at various academic faculties and institutions, in order to expend and improve the quality ethics education around the world.
New USDA meal patterns and professional standards will assure improved quality child nutrition programs for our children which in turn will support student academic performance in the classroom.
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In addition, there are other partners that contribute to the IHP implementation, such as: water-related government organizations, the academic sector, research institutes, NGOs and institutions related to hydrology, hydraulics and water quality at regional and international levels, among others.
Britain, for example, tried for two decades to channel many of the less academic school-leavers into polytechnics that had been set up to provide degrees equal in quality to those offered by the universities, but with a more technical and vocational bent.
Since sometime during season one he has rated each episode using academic-style A-F letter grades not only on its plot, but on the quality of its medicine.
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To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase the quality of its education by recruiting higher-quality faculty, who are paid 5 percent more than their average peers in the academic labor market.
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