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An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.
The Skinners' Kent Academy is a secondary school in Royal Tunbridge Wells with academy status. An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements.
The Academy credits Skolsky with "the first confirmed newspaper reference" to Oscar in his column on March 16, 1934, which was written about that year's 6th Academy Awards. [32] But in the newspaper clipping that Skolsky referred to, he wrote that these statues are called 'Oscars', meaning that the name was already in use. [29]
Academy of Sciences. Scientist III: after Master thesis or Diploma, equal to Assistant; Scientist II: after Doctoral thesis/PhD/Dissertation, after Dr. Grade (3–5 or 7 years work after Master), equal Chef Assistant, *Associate or Post Doc; Scientist I: After second Post Doc (1 or 2 years work after PhD/Dr), equal Senior Assistant or Senior ...
Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly financed but independently run school; Academy, one of the school organizational models; French regional academies overseeing education; Military academy; Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece c. 385 BCE
Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii. The concept of grouping students together in a centralized location for learning has existed since Classical antiquity.Formal schools have existed at least since ancient Greece (see Academy), ancient Rome (see Education in Ancient Rome) ancient India (see Gurukul), and ancient China (see History of education in China).
An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.These institutions often offer degrees at various levels, usually divided into undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.