Students from "tougher backgrounds and less academic schools" appear to out perform when they get to university, Mr Willetts said.
Most who do not, and many of those at less academic schools, go ultimately into specialised training for one of around 350 trades, from gardening to glass-blowing.
These will also be linear - rather being than taken in "chunks" and there will be no separate "foundation" papers for less academic pupils, where the maximum grade possible is a 'C'.
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.
In the tables, we are also offering the option of seeing which institutions have performed best in Advanced GNVQs, to reflect the long-standing concern that ranking institutions by A level results automatically disadvantages further education colleges, which tend to have a more vocational, less academic focus.
The survey is less rigorous than an academic study.
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Great teachers are less focused on their specific academic discipline and more interested in helping students solve problems.
As universities select applicants on academic merit, less well-qualified Scottish students might be squeezed out and have to go to fee-charging English universities.
Besides the pay gap, academic life is less secure than it used to be: staff who would once have had tenure are as sackable as anybody else.
In June, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that women pursuing careers in academic medicine earn significantly less than men.
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So far in this academic year it has less than half the number of new students it had in the previous year, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.
Yes, many smaller, perhaps less-known private colleges still offer academic merit aid of substantial value.
The vast majority of American universities are obsessed by rising up the academic hierarchy, becoming a bit less like Yokel-U and a bit more like Yale.
More recent academic studies indicate that the multiplier is less than 1.0, and perhaps much less.
Decentralized church systems with a history of less formal schooling historically outperform top-heavy ones with heavy academic requirements.
Carr being 5-foot-6, 17 years old as a sophomore and a likely NCAA academic non-qualifier have something to do with his less-than-stellar ranking.
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This is an ambitious book, offering an analysis of the failures of academic economics and a call for a more inclusive, less materialistic society.
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Today we have 50 sets of state academic standards--some world-class and others far less.
Past the Pretoria Academic Hospital, the main road heads left, while a less-used lane curves to the right.
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This implicit guarantee is slightly less airtight than the pledge on Treasurys, but the difference is probably academic.
However, they are consistent with a growing body of academic research that shows reducing government spending leads to more, not less economic growth and a greater number of jobs.
In this case from collegiate sports, a collection of schools with like-minded philosophical and academic missions have opted to leave money on the table and receive less media money initially in order to protect the long-term legacy of their brand value of their conference name.
But he is much less enthusiastic about how questions over the plays' authorship have also now entered the academic mainstream.
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He proceeds more or less chronologically, following Amis from his suburban London childhood to Oxford, a series of academic posts in Britain and America, and then back to London again.
David Sanders, an Essex University academic who studies the relationship between economic variables and voting intentions, finds his equations ever less trustworthy.
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But it is not clear - judging from an exchange of academic views on Radio Scotland and taken up by Radio 4's 'More or Less' last week - that an independent Scotland would have had to accept the full bill for bank activities beyond its borders.
On 7 December 2012 indeed, a Regional Conference gathering no less than 50 participants (national and international specialists in gender equality, representatives of international organizations, the academic community, governmental institutions, intergovernmental organizations, etc.) will take place in Moscow in the premises of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
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Yet a wide variety of academic research shows that parents are not happier than their childless peers, and in many cases are less so.
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