adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
academic/educational standards
▪ There had been a policy of raising academic standards within the school.
an educational aim
▪ the educational aims of the school
an educational establishment (=a school, college etc)
▪ It’s a large educational establishment with over 2,000 pupils.
educational facilities
▪ We aim to improve the provision of educational facilities such as libraries.
educational qualifications
▪ Too many children leave school without any educational qualifications.
educational/academic background
▪ The interviewer will ask you about your educational background and work experience.
▪ Postgraduate students come from a wide range of academic backgrounds.
educational/social etc psychology
▪ experts in the field of developmental psychology
financial/educational/research etc institution
▪ the government and other political institutions
for political/military/educational/medicinal etc purposes
▪ This technology could be used for military purposes.
social/economic/educational disadvantage
▪ Unemployment often leads to social disadvantage.
the educational establishment
▪ The proposals sent shock waves throughout the educational establishment.
the political/legal/educational etc system
▪ The country is rightly proud of its legal system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
achievement
▪ So educational achievement rather than nepotism offers a background to the respect, status and deference accorded to elites.
▪ As I have said, my borough's levels of educational achievement are low.
▪ There is some variation in educational achievement from country to country within the United Kingdom.
▪ Compact aims to motivate young people to improve their educational achievements.
▪ The measures of educational achievement discussed above all show differences between the sexes.
▪ In the period since Swann the collection of official statistics on educational achievements has displayed a slightly greater sensitivity and discrimination.
▪ There is also increased awareness that educational achievements are closely connected to national cultures and traditions.
activity
▪ At the end of the war in 1945, the growth in the District's educational activity was very impressive.
▪ But a federal appeals court held that in this case it was not a constitutionally protected educational activity.
▪ This would include: Expansion of union research and educational activities in this field.
▪ Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge, he took an active part in several educational activities.
▪ What must be most striking to readers is how little difference there is in these two underlying premises for educational activity.
▪ Under Communist rule, as with other religions, services were permitted but no cultural or educational activities.
▪ Regrettably, this attitude does not extend to our educational activities.
attainment
▪ A personal philosophy is something which all people have nomatterwhat their background, class, or educational attainment.
▪ We have already seen that output cognition is closely related to level of educational attainment and socioeconomic Position.
▪ As well as such differences in educational attainment, there are differences in the characteristic linguistic behaviour of various groups.
▪ Even the lag in educational attainment that continued to mount from the late 1970s did not account for the differences.
▪ Their educational attainment was also being affected because their rooms were too cold to study in.
▪ Among those with lower educational attainment the national differences are greater.
▪ Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment.
▪ Both talking politics and feeling relatively unrestricted about with whom one can safely discuss politics are closely related to educational attainment.
background
▪ If they are beginning their training, what is their educational background?
▪ Managers come from a variety of educational backgrounds.
▪ Otley found that a rising proportion of senior army officers had elite educational backgrounds.
▪ All students, regardless of their educational backgrounds, come with some basic observations and knowledge about science.
▪ There was snobbery, and attitudes formed by social and educational background.
▪ All of us do have good educational backgrounds.
▪ Undifferentiated comparisons which ignore parental occupations and educational backgrounds and environmental conditions like housing are also of very limited value.
▪ Because of the diversity of duties and levels of responsibility, their educational backgrounds and experience vary considerably.
change
▪ The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years.
▪ Further, genuine educational change in these settings is next to impossible given the logistical difficulty of just getting the staff together.
▪ For this reason it is appropriate to take a base-line review of the nature of educational change as a whole before proceeding further.
▪ Thus, for the question about the slow pace of educational change you could set a paragraph to answer the following questions.
▪ These three examples, juxtaposed, serve to highlight the nature of educational change.
▪ Since the 1972 Nuffield Survey was carried out, three major educational changes have occurred.
development
▪ Certainly, these early learning years are crucial to a child's educational development.
▪ Unlike the restricted professional, he is interested in theory and current educational developments.
▪ In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development.
establishment
▪ An economic system justifies itself by pointing to the wealth it produces, and an educational establishment to skills and knowledge.
▪ To be sure, there is much within the educational establishment that cries out for reform.
▪ One of the problems is that educational establishments can't renew their equipment as often as desirable.
▪ The most striking feature of the post-war period has been the increase of use of educational establishments by all socio-economic groups.
▪ It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long, which is totally unacceptable.
▪ The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants' type of educational establishment.
▪ HENLEY-NEDERLAND Henley-Nederland is an independent, private institution and a recognised educational establishment.
▪ However, devolution is already quite a commonplace activity in many educational establishments around the world.
experience
▪ The deaf of all countries face similar educational experiences and suppression of their sign language.
▪ The educational experience was undiluted at Black Mountain.
▪ From a positive standpoint, that kind of happening brings with it an educational experience with a particular degree of vitality.
▪ Alumni and grandparents are also encouraged to be part of the Pilgrim family and educational experience.
▪ It reminds us that the National Curriculum is not the whole educational experience of a child.
▪ Most colleges have routinely sought to produce qualified student bodies whose mix is in itself an educational experience for those in it.
▪ The beauty, variety and good nature of these wonderful plants has provided a marvellous educational experience at our village school.
▪ The initial political socialization research emphasized the overwhelming importance of early socialization, from the family and from early educational experiences.
facility
▪ National Trust Gift Shop, educational facilities, light refreshments and guided tours are available in the Summer.
▪ It too often produces inferior educational facilities in the predominantly Negro schools.
▪ The first half of the nineteenth century saw a notable development in deaf history aside from the growth of educational facilities.
▪ Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
▪ Most live with only minimal sanitary, health and educational facilities.
▪ Neither state offers women a separate-but-equal military educational facility.
▪ The creation of a Gas Museum in the refurbished site will be a unique tourist and educational facility.
▪ There are no educational facilities. 9.
institution
▪ Priests and laymen of all three religions organized educational institutions and missionary propaganda.
▪ The committee submitted guidelines that applied to off-air recording by nonprofit educational institutions.
▪ He added that governments seriously underfunded educational institutions, which are the traditional home of fundamental research.
▪ They also may become superintendent of a school system or president of an educational institution.
▪ On Jan. 18, educational institutions were closed for the winter holiday a week early.
▪ The number of educational institutions does not meet the acute needs of the region.
▪ The structure for managing performance in educational institutions can be illustrated as shown in Figure 5.8.
▪ While there has been an increase since independence, educational institutions still fall far below the needs of the respective countries.
issue
▪ Advisory groups were created to look at various educational issues.
▪ What are the educational issues in Barrow?
▪ These involved more people at a local and regional level in educational issues and also provided forums for discussion.
▪ Drawing the distinction between what is satisfactory and what is not raises three substantial educational issues.
▪ And fourth, this is not going to be a close scrutiny of the current wave of educational issues and innovations.
level
▪ The committee called for greater emphasis on language at all educational levels, with increased spending on staffing, accommodation and other resources.
▪ George finds himself talking and listening to women and minority workers, people with educational levels and cultures different from his own.
▪ Editors were instructed to mould their articles far more to the educational levels of workers and peasants.
▪ Expectation of treatment by government and police also varies among educational levels.
▪ The war has accentuated the disparities both in educational level and general economic status between different regions of the country.
▪ That is a fairly important question compared to a question concerning the educational level of the battered wife.
▪ Typically however in most countries females are under-represented at all educational levels, the more so the higher one goes.
▪ The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality.
material
▪ In women's magazines and educational material the apple conjures good food and health.
▪ Digital diversity educational materials to assist national civil rights organizations in educating their constituencies on using technology.
▪ Business programs and educational material have not yet been bootlegged on any large scale in Britain.
▪ Appropriate educational material will continue to be co-ordinated, evaluated and distributed to schools as it becomes available.
▪ In addition, it will provide information of practical value for designing anti-racist educational materials.
▪ Bebe Hinds, branch chairman, was overwhelmed with the warm response of the public to the educational material given out.
▪ The authors also point out that much more work needs to be done to maximise the use of educational materials.
▪ If education is supposed to be free, then educational materials should also be free.
need
▪ Other pupils with special educational needs will not have statements.
▪ Identifying the educational needs of a handicapped child falls within the province of an experienced teacher.
▪ Traditionally children with special educational needs have been seen in terms of a deficit model - just as disruptive children have.
▪ As far as children with special educational needs are concerned, there are for me two main worries.
▪ Moreover, drama activity is also a particularly powerful facilitator for pupils with special educational needs.
▪ Adapting the curriculum just for children with special educational needs may lead to their becoming increasingly isolated and segregated within the classroom.
▪ By focusing on the educational needs of the poor, the act avoided the religious controversy that killed its proposals under Kennedy.
▪ Pupil assessment is continuous so that the child's future educational needs can be determined.
opportunity
▪ Second, general educational opportunities are under threat.
▪ But his main ploy was to portray Weld as a friend of the rich eager to reduce educational opportunities for ordinary citizens.
▪ It appeared to be a feasible solution to a series of problems, and an interesting educational opportunity.
▪ But, little by little, educational opportunities began to be foreclosed for girls.
▪ Also the material benefits of Prussian citizenship had begun to show in improved living standards and educational opportunities.
▪ She had early ambitions to be a marine biologist, and always claimed that lack of formal educational opportunity prevented her.
▪ This supports educational opportunities for those over 50.
philosophy
▪ The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
▪ Even more fundamental than these pragmatic constraints, however, is the educational philosophy underlying the two initiatives.
▪ These projects include curriculum development, educational philosophy and goals, teacher upgrading and in-service training.
▪ Within each teacher's subject area there are competing approaches that conflict in educational philosophy as well as in teaching style.
policy
▪ Comparison of Anti-sexist and anti-racist Policies On the surface anti-racist and anti-sexist educational policies are in tune with each other.
▪ But the courtroom is not the arena for debating issues of educational policy.
▪ Thus educational policy was oriented both to perceived economic needs, and to broader social goals of equality of opportunity.
▪ Then it will be liberal parents who become concerned about educational policies that violate their values.
▪ New educational policies take their justification from the experiences of racism suffered by black citizens.
▪ The first task in scrutinizing educational policies, therefore, must be to examine their implicit categorization and labelling.
▪ There is little doubt that these are proper, necessary and central focuses for educational policy and practice.
▪ Aboriginal affairs On Oct. 26, 1989, the government launched a new national educational policy for Aboriginals.
practice
▪ In all educational practice lies a vision of the future.
▪ The Piagetian / constructivist vision is that educational practice and development need not and should not be at odds.
▪ Scriven has charged evaluators with the responsibility for judging the merit of an educational practice.
▪ Basically, educational technology is the application of technological innovations to educational practice.
▪ Up to the 1960s behaviourist models of learning pervaded educational practice.
▪ The concept of adaptation has major implications for educational practice and will be discussed further.
▪ Unfortunately evaluation is very difficult and has seldom been done in special educational practice.
▪ But Dewey's application of it had a very direct effect on educational practice in the classroom.
problem
▪ In reality, what is being funded is not interactive video but a solution to an urgent educational problem.
▪ This is an educational problem and school counselors are available to help; their assistance should be sought.
▪ Likewise, the teacher is most motivated to study educational problems when pursuing his own problem defined in his own language.
▪ The educational problem we are facing has been known for nearly a decade.
▪ The educational problems we began with can be interpreted in a more realistic and systematic way.
▪ Educational theory does not by any means have the answers to all our educational problems.
▪ His educational problems were aggravated by his refusal to wear glasses, without which his eyesight was very poor.
process
▪ Thus attention may be focused on the educational process or on the output or product of this process.
▪ This policy of constant education must inevitably extend to the continuation of the educational process beyond normal school-leaving age.
▪ Consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process.
▪ Judgements are a crucial part of knowledge, learning and any educational process.
▪ This direct experience of seeing books being valued and enjoyed has been a timely reminder of their importance in the educational process.
▪ Such equipment and materials being used as an accompaniment to or in educational processes. 3.
▪ More importantly, will the employer adequately fulfil his obligation to complete the educational process by producing sound technicians and businessmen?
▪ There is, accordingly, an element of uncertainty about the educational processes in higher education.
program
▪ The authors have obviously taken note of the thousands of users of the first release to bring you this wonderful educational program.
▪ Many individuals also attend training and educational programs sponsored by industry associations, often in collaboration with postsecondary institutions.
▪ The culprit: an educational program he had installed for his 3-year-old daughter.
▪ Though the educational program is designed for college-bound students, great attention is also paid to athletics and extracurricular activities.
▪ One can lose a sense of perspective, too, if one overlooks the positive side of Catholic educational programs.
▪ To the extent that educational programs purport to teach social knowledge, legitimate opportunities for social interaction must be provided.
▪ In the early 1950s Highlander work shifted to make educational programs on the civil rights issue its major priority.
▪ But he is heading off to preschool, and we wanted to get him some educational programs.
programme
▪ Physical education is highly valued and forms part of a fully integrated educational programme based on a unitary conception of man.
▪ This is an example of the sociological method of evaluation being used for summative evaluation of the products of an educational programme.
▪ A great deal can be accomplished given the correct educational programme.
▪ The remaining two terms cover the basic theory of education and teach how to plan an effective educational programme.
▪ The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect.
▪ The educational programme was submitted, but the college did not visit until October.
▪ As in Britain, changes in health care are only haphazardly incorporated into the educational programme.
▪ This would provide a base and headquarters for the proposed educational programme.
programmes
▪ Much of the responsibility for running our community and educational programmes has now been devolved to our business and operating sites.
▪ It organises seminars and educational programmes on a wide range of current issues.
▪ Programmes at the parks shall be in accordance with educational programmes and social exchange programmes developed by the city for adults and young adults.
▪ There's educational programmes, not that Mrs Feather needs education.
▪ Partners might feel that personal and social development should be set out clearly among the objectives of educational programmes.
▪ The second approach to prevention is the implementation of educational programmes aimed at modifying the attitudes of young people to attempted suicide.
▪ Changes in the national provision of educational programmes for our industry.
▪ If they were educational programmes they probably had their own teaching built in too.
provision
▪ School closures have seriously affected educational provision.
▪ Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision.
▪ Compact enhances educational provision in two ways.
▪ Regional differences in educational provision are substantial.
▪ Both therefore see special educational provision as having an essential role to play in bringing about changes in mainstream education.
▪ Thus provision intended to help dyslexic children with their special difficulty is special educational provision.
▪ In both cases, educational provision for the black majority was largely left in the hands of missionaries.
▪ This creates grounds for closure of the less popular school and thus reduces educational provision in the more deprived area.
psychologist
▪ The educational psychologist spent some time explaining the legal side of Statementing, which is complex.
▪ Gordon was an educational psychologist who had devoted his career to the issues surrounding the teaching of disadvantaged youth.
▪ She was counselled by an educational psychologist and her condition rapidly improved.
▪ This is a critical problem for teachers, advisory teachers, advisers and educational psychologists to resolve.
▪ In 1936 a survey of Jarrow elementary school children was undertaken by an educational psychologist ....
▪ It consisted of the advisory teacher, an educational psychologist and sixteen of the teachers who had been at the course.
▪ After she had left, the head and educational psychologist explained the Statementing procedure in more detail.
▪ She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist.
psychology
▪ Furthermore, the results will be relevant to educational psychology, socialization process, child rearing and moral development.
▪ A good place to begin is with the encounter of educational psychology and schooling.
▪ Courses in applied areas such as educational psychology are also taught.
purpose
▪ A code of conduct relating to the use of software acquired for educational purposes has been adopted by the University.
▪ In this instance, the word was used for educational purposes among high school seniors.
▪ It fulfils a dual educational purpose.
▪ Those beyond help he's arranged to be euthanized; other partially disabled animals he's kept for educational purposes.
▪ This emphasises the educational purposes of the placement to the young people, the school and the employers.
▪ Many of the people who come under the first proposal would be paying back loans for educational purposes.
▪ It's a good book for further educational purposes.
▪ Moving home: An organisation devoted to the use of historical houses for educational purposes is leaving London and moving north.
qualification
▪ Most of the dentists do not have any educational qualifications.
▪ If you have just started working then it would be better to put your educational qualifications at the beginning.
▪ Mary was forty-six and had left school without any educational qualifications.
▪ Similarly, we might consider whether educational qualifications or length of service are not also components of pay scales in Western companies.
▪ Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings, agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport.
▪ It also asks about their work, their educational qualifications, and whether they have moved house in recent years.
▪ The authors define five recruitment strategies which can be summarized as follows: 1 educational qualifications perform a determinative function.
▪ The South East is the leading region in terms of the educational qualifications of its work force and the level of school attainment.
reform
▪ The point of our educational reforms is to improve standards.
▪ He has worked with the heavily Democratic Legislature to pass educational reform.
▪ A Nine-point plan for educational reform 1.
▪ Californians overwhelmingly favor the educational reforms that the state has embraced over the last few years, according to a new study.
▪ To regard them as a formal but irrelevant accoutrement of educational reform would be a severe managerial mistake.
▪ Mr MacGregor said that he would delay introducing the scheme because of the demands made on teachers by other educational reforms.
▪ Labour has failed to build a popular consensus around educational reform and was trumped by Ashdown's penny on income tax.
▪ Can class barriers be broken down by educational reform?
research
▪ Between them, these statements identify three characteristics at the heart of educational research.
▪ He scorns educational research as a self-indulgent and pointless waste of time.
▪ This could well be a useful source of information on local educational research.
▪ The prizes are awarded for educational research studies conducted by teachers or other practitioners whose jobs do not normally include doing research.
▪ The epistemological foundations of educational research have also been the subject of intensive scrutiny.
▪ It examined the direction, organisation, funding, quality and impact of educational research.
▪ Since that time, not only have views of education and educational research changed, but so have views of science.
service
▪ Schools School bookings and educational services.
▪ In a New York case, a federal district court found that a nonprofit educational service agency was guilty of copyright violations.
▪ The persistent pattern of inequality in economic, social and educational services has contributed to the widening gaps between regions.
▪ About 9 out of 10 were in educational services in elementary, secondary, and technical schools and colleges and universities.
▪ For two years prior to 1987 there was unprecedented industrial action by teachers which seriously dislocated the educational service.
▪ We need to provide an educational service that does not promote disruptive pupils nor reject disruptive pupils.
software
▪ Ironically, it is the small educational software specialists rather than the big battalions who saw this trend developing.
▪ Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., which sells educational software, dropped 15 percent, or 3, to 17.
▪ Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc.
▪ Sounds like an endorsement for Rhode Island-based Hasbro Industries' entrance into the educational software market.
▪ At present the department has a library of some 400 pieces of educational software.
▪ Geometry Blaster is from the Davidson company, a pioneer in educational software.
▪ Categories include word processing, spreadsheets, accounts packages, databases, utilities, graphics and communications as well as educational software and games.
▪ Early experiments with educational software were not considered productive in enhancing the learning process.
standard
▪ Correspondingly it must be recognised that an individual has entered work with a particular educational standard.
▪ They insist that virtually all of their students reach a high educational standard.
▪ We have begun the job of raising educational standards and breaking down the barriers between the vocational and the academic routes.
▪ In the context of the debate about the curriculum, economic decline and supposedly falling educational standards were important elements.
▪ Clinton called for uniform educational standards without regard to income level.
▪ The Education Reform Act of 1988 in promoting that separation will undoubtedly contribute to the raising of educational standards for some.
▪ For more senior jobs individuals will have already demonstrated an appropriate level of intelligence by their educational standards and successful work experience.
system
▪ Could it be that the bourgeois educational system was flawed?
▪ All of these results have been achieved by young people who are often invisible within the current educational system.
▪ In the next decade, microcomputers will stimulate radical changes in every part of the educational system.
▪ Through school-to-work, companies can directly influence the educational system and improve the lines of communication between educators and employers.
▪ What is so special about higher education as opposed to any other part of the educational system?
▪ Countries do not compete well unless they develop their educational systems.
▪ Demographic pressures were signally important in producing change in the educational system.
technology
▪ The systems approach to educational technology involves four basic activities or stages: 1.
▪ Funding for educational technology would double to $ 500 million.
▪ Basically, educational technology is the application of technological innovations to educational practice.
▪ Somehow one does not find very much in the various educational technology journals on these matters.
value
▪ The underlying educational values in language teaching, then, are not often clearly stated or conceptualized.
▪ Academic freedom is not absolute, and courts balance it against competing educational values.
▪ Assessment is likely to have educational value, however, only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer.
▪ This analysis illustrates the potential health educational value of mass publicity surrounding fundraising activities.
▪ But does it come up to scratch for educational value?
▪ While two innovations embodying quite different educational values attempt to coexist it is unlikely that both will be successful.
▪ Just think of the educational value!
▪ Most college lecturers now have private doubts about the educational value of lectures.
work
▪ Meanwhile, he was making friends of working men and trade unionists, and devoting himself to educational work.
▪ One new development in our educational work has been with schools and community organisations.
▪ He helps to equip trade unions to do their own educational work.
▪ Alice Berwicke, visiting Plymouth for the association in 1881, found reclamation and educational work in full swing in the local branch.
▪ After the triumph, we will have to concentrate on educational work so that women are at last in a position to express demands.
▪ The Rudolf Steiner schools are renowned for their fine educational work with the mentally handicapped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ educational TV programs
▪ a leading publisher of educational books and software
▪ a shop selling educational toys for 7 to 11 year-olds
▪ After retiring, he remained active in educational programs at the laboratory.
▪ Different children have different educational needs.
▪ Low-income children do not have the same educational opportunities as children from wealthier families.
▪ Many educational institutions have not been able make needed improvements because of funding cuts.
▪ The American educational system is in need of reform.
▪ We offer a wide range of educational and sporting activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eighteen of the 33 respondents said they would welcome training in educational methods and principles.
▪ In the next decade, microcomputers will stimulate radical changes in every part of the educational system.
▪ It appeared to be a feasible solution to a series of problems, and an interesting educational opportunity.
▪ My daughter became friends with Lonnie, 17, in an educational enrichment program.
▪ That won't be the only educational legislation.
▪ We have already seen that output cognition is closely related to level of educational attainment and socioeconomic Position.
▪ Younger lawyers often have greater need for current cash to support young families and pay off educational loans and mortgages.