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academy

an educational establishment established and maintained by a person who has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of State so to do, in England and Wales. As well as any special requirements in the contract, the school must have a curriculum that meets the current legal requirements but with an emphasis on a particular subject area or areas as specified in the agreement. It must provide education for pupils of different abilities who are wholly or mainly drawn from the area in which the school is situated. Any payments due under the agreement by the Secretary of State are dependent on the fulfilment of conditions and requirements imposed for the purpose of securing that no charge is made in respect of admission to (or attendance at) the school or, subject to such exceptions as may be specified in the agreement, in respect of education provided at the school.

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Plato's Academy and his involvement in Syracusan politics.

S. Sara Monoson, Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy

Somoza's narrative begins when Heracles Pontor, a well-known Decipherer of Enigmas, is retained by Diagoras of Mardontes, a teacher of philosophy at Plato's academy, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the gruesome death of Tramachus, one of his outstanding pupils.

Jose Carlos Somoza. The Athenian Murders

When I read Ruiz to my students and talk about Plato's Academy at the beginning of the year, my students become intrinsically motivated.

How do you get students geared up for the new school year?

Somoza's novel takes the form of a translated ancient Greek manuscript centered on the mysterious death of Tramachus, a promising student at Plato's Academy in Athens.

Jose Carlos Somoza. The Athenian Murders

From Plato's Academy to Jefferson's University, the exemplary philosophers and institutional leaders Bourdeau commends are a lmost exclusively white men, and the model institutions he discusses are exclusively U.

Universitas: The Social Restructuring of American Undergraduate Education

In what they describe as a "cross between Plato's Republic and the 1001 Nights," Rothman and Sudarshan reinvent Plato's academy, melding their thoughts with those of their ancestors and contemporaries.