Some Jewish scholars view Hasdai ibn Shaprut's father ( the apostate previously known as Isaac bin Ezra ) as the primary driver for enticing the heads of Jewish Academies, in Babylon, to come to Spain.

The educational ones were commonly known as Dissenting Academies.

The city is best known for the Culver Academies preparatory boarding school.

The transference in meaning of the term from the learning session to the institution itself appears to have occurred by the time of the great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, Sura and Pumbedita, which were known as shte ha-yeshivot, " the two colleges.

The Royal Society of Canada ( La Société royale du Canada ) also known as RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada ( SRC: Les Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada ) is the senior national, bilingual body of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists.

Helmuth Rilling ( born 29 May 1933 in Stuttgart ) is an internationally known German choral conductor, founder of the Gächinger Kantorei ( 1954 ), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart ( 1965 ), the Oregon Bach Festival ( 1970 ), the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart ( 1981 ) and other Bach Academies worldwide, and the " Festival Ensemble Stuttgart " ( 2001 ).

He graduated from the Culver Academies and Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one-man show for which he is best known, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight ( for which he won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award ).

They are collectively known as the Culver Academies and are located in Culver, Indiana, USA.

Carling is also known for sponsoring various live music venues in the United Kingdom, including Carling Academies in Brixton, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Islington, Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne ; the Shepherd's Bush Empire ; the Manchester Apollo and the Carling weekend music festivals which takes place at the end of August each year over two venues-Leeds and Reading.

Both schools bring with them deeply treasured values of community, tradition and purpose to the newly formed institution known as The Albany Academies.

The Minnesota State Academies for the Deaf and for the Blind, including the State Library for the Blind, are located in the southeast part of the city above the Straight River.

According to a tradition preserved in the academies, Rav Ashi was born in the same year that Rava, the great teacher of Mahuza, died, and he was the first teacher of any importance in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Raba's death.

It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone ( Spanish-speaking ) nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies.

In 2007 the African Academy of Sciences, was a signatory to the " statement on sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change ", the joint statement of African science academies, organized through the Network of African Science Academies, confirming anthropogenic global warming and presented to the leaders meeting at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.

The document was signed by the eight art academies that sponsored the creation of the statue: The Central Academies of Fine Arts, Arts and Crafts, Drama, and Music ; the Beijing Film Academy ; the Beijing Dance Academy ; the Academy of Chinese Local Stage Arts ; and the Academy of Traditional Music.

De Union Académique Internationale ( UAI, The International Union of Academies ) is an organisation of many national academies from more than 60 countries and several international academies.

Although the Government allows academies to select 10 % of pupils by ability, ESF Academies do not do so, being fully comprehensive schools for local children.

Following the 2010 General Election the Academies Act 2010 was enacted, vastly expanding possibilities for schools to become academies.

* The National Academies Forum-the peak body for the four learned academies in Australia.

The four Finnish academies have an organ for cooperation, the Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Science and Letters.

ARK Academies and Edutrust invested £ 4m and are to run two academies each.

During the Third Congress of Academies, held in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1960, an agreement was reached whereby the governments of countries with a member in the Association would be obliged to provide financial support to their respective academies and the greater Association.

Chino Hills High has 4 academies that allow students who wish to pursue particular careers in the Academies may enroll.

There are 109 faculty members who have been elected to the National Academies.

Both countries are full members of the Rio Group, of the Latin Union, of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, of the Organization of American States and of the Organization of Ibero-American States.

* Both countries are full members of the Rio Group, of the Latin Union, of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, of the Organization of American States, of the Organization of Ibero-American States and of the Union of South American Nations.

It is unclear if " Academies ", which are a hybrid between state and independently funded / controlled schools and have been introduced to England in recent years, will ever be introduced to Scotland.

Federal agencies are the primary financial sponsors of the Academies ' work ; additional studies are funded by state agencies, foundations, other private sponsors, and the National Academies endowment.

Hanlon wrote, " As the Military and Naval Academies are the backbone of the Army and Navy, so must the Aeronautical Academy be the backbone of the Air Service.

These new County facilities are used for training Berkeley County law enforcement officers, reserve deputies, and handling Citizen Academies to inform the public of what the job entales of all deputies at the department.

Two of London's most successful City Academies are in Hackney with another two in development and plans to rebuild or renovate every other Hackney school by 2016.

There are many other Academies ( grouped under the Association of Spanish Language Academies ) that may or may not have an official normative recognition, but nevertheless cooperate in the creation of the Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas ( a compendium of corrected typical mistakes and doubts ).

In this dictionary, whose production was agreed upon by the 22 different Spanish Language Academies, we are told:

The Royal Academies are independent organisations, founded on Royal command, that act to promote the arts, culture, and science in Sweden.

Also included in the Royal Academies are three scientific societies that were granted Royal Charters during the 18th century.

The Prizes are awarded in four categories and decided by committees of three of the Swedish Royal Academies:

ECNU has a faculty body of over 4, 000, among whom there are 1986 full-time teachers ( including over 1, 000 professors or associate professors ), 11 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering ( six of them are academicians of both Academies ), 11 members of the “ State Council Academic Appraisal Committee ”, eight specially hired professors or lecture professors for the “ Yangtze Scholar Award Program ” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, nine “ state level talents ” chosen by the “ New-Century Talents Project ,” ten “ National Outstanding Youth Fund ” award winner, 80 specially hired professors or lecture professors for ECNU ’ s “ Zijiang Scholar Award Program ”, and 105 tenured professors.

Other floors in the tower are occupied by various organisations and commercial companies, including Environment Agency, Altitude 360 London, free software promotion company Canonical Ltd .,-the company that sponsors the Ubuntu project ; the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the UK India Business Council, the Audit Commission ( soon to be wound up by Eric Pickles ), event caterers Salt and Pepper, Private Food Design and the firm Lewis PR.

The upgrade plans are in close alignment with a report issued December 2006 by the National Academies, " Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States ," which defines a scientific agenda for a U. S .- based rare-isotope facility and addresses the need for such a facility in context of international efforts in this area.

In the chain of command, graduates of the two Military Academies in Athens and Thessaloniki are considered higher in seniority compared to professional officers of the same rank who graduate from specialized Military Schools.

The reports of the IOM are made available online for free by the publishing arm of the United States National Academies, the National Academies Press, in multiple formats.