In 1990, the struggle between the two camps revolved around admission to the highly prestigious, autonomous military academies.

The sons of impoverished farmers poured into the military academies and increasingly turned against corrupt urban politicians.

English folk music is similarly under-represented in the concert hall and in dance academies.

He enjoyed visiting schools, military academies, museums, zoos, parks and scientific institutes.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centur ies, scientific academies helped support potential adjudications by recording new research results and pr ior ity claims.

They offered fewer subjects than comparable white academies, but provided tuition in washing and ironing, which might prove useful to girls for whom domestic service constituted a probable occupation.

A casual look at the academies might give the impression that they were mostly social in nature, that they functioned as a pastime for bored aristocrats and ambitious letterati.

Partly excepted from this crisis were some major national research centres at the national academies of sciences, but the crisis severely damaged regional and local institutions and heritage protection.

Moreover, a close-knit social network exists among graduates of the different military academies, many of whom have taken impor tant posts in the military and elsewhere.

The admissions criteria of these academies have provoked acrimonious debates about secularism and the role of the military in fashioning the country’s political culture and educational policies.

Is it to sit in our academies and insist that we know the truth, we are the experts who can say that it was not so?

What about academies and agricultural societies, banks and bridges, charitable associations and churches?

By about 1750, most scientific academies had established regular contact with one another, exchanging publications and occasionally collaborating on joint scientific projects requiring many scattered observers.

Sponsors of academies are expected to play a key role in the strategic leadership of the schools they support.

No provision for expenditure on technology academies was made in either 1987–88 or 1988–89.