He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.
Understanding the fundamentals of programming at even the most basic level could be an important foundation for advanced learning.
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Last month the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (Acme), which has been consulted about the new exams, registered its own concerns that GCSE1 would not provide the proper foundation for further study at A-level.
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Without a blanket policy of nondiscrimination, corporate or foundation giving to the Boy Scouts of America at the national level is a veritable landmine.
Her stance was backed by the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK, who said there was no safe level of smoke and that the ban on smoking indoors should be absolute.
According to a 2005 survey by Catalyst, a nonprofit research foundation, women accounted for 52% of all employees at entry-level positions, but a mere 28% of top-level executives.
Gone is the basement level of the pyramid the heftiest slab a foundation of breads, starches and other carbohydrates.
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But the advice also works at a local level, as the book illustrates through the story of how the Tow Foundation improved juvenile justice policy in Connecticut.
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As SkyDrive already has some level of maturity, you'd hope that that means a relatively solid foundation of features, and you'd be largely right.
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At the professional level, we asked that athletes find a cause near to them to have a foundation that could help.
Over two decades of HeartMath research sets the foundation for this truly unique and effective approach to replacing old frazzled stress responses with a new level of personal balance and a deeper sense of ease and flow in the face of challenges.
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Research carried out in the same month by a secularist foundation suggested three-quarters of people who describe themselves as Christian in Britain displayed only a low level of belief and practice of the religion.
Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.
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