academic standard

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandstandard

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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standard
noun
uk
/ˈstæn.dəd/us
/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofacademicandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Overall, the book is of a very highacademicstandard, as one would anticipate from this series.
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They have attained anacademicstandardof excellence we can all acknowledge and praise.
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They have over the years increasingly come to discharge a particular and vital function by providing an education of highacademicstandard.
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In those areas theacademicstandardin schools is extremely low.
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If theacademicstandardis to be improved, that may require more books.
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It is of a very highacademicstandard, and in due course we shall have to think about that aspect.
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In order to enter such a school it was necessary to attain theacademicstandardlaid down by the university.
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In providing studies of a highacademicstandard, they perform at least two functions.
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We do not accept the selective principle that they go to a boarding school because they reach a necessaryacademicstandard.
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Will he confirm that theacademicstandardof the students at these centres is chiefly specialised in the direction of games such as space invaders?
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It is to ensure that the community has doctors and lawyers reaching a certainacademicstandard.
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Many good young boys who have these attributes may be lost if theacademicstandardis kept too high.
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They are three very different schools, all of roughly equivalentacademicstandard, but the schools are run in very different styles.
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Apart from passing at interview, candidates must have, therefore, approximately the sameacademicstandardas boys awarded scholarships.
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In providing studies of highacademicstandard, they perform at least two important functions.
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In schools with large numbers of them they tend to be the pace setters, and often raise the wholeacademicstandard.
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I make no criticism of it or theacademicstandardattained by it.
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We say that some of those grammar schools and direct grant schools, and schools which have a very highacademicstandard.
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There can in fact be advantages in employing a dyslexic person, particularly one who has achieved a goodacademicstandard, as some do.
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