What's the difference between academy and conservatoire?
Academy
Definition:
(n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
(n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
(n.) A place of training; a school.
(n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
(n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(2) The payments were for services ranging from "project management" to "HR consultancy", according to the academy chain's company accounts.
(3) But he added: “My concern is that if we are to see a rapid move to a world in which all schools must become academies then there will be an enormous challenge to ensure that schools remain properly rooted in their local communities and accountable to parents.” A spokeswoman for the Department for Education rejected all the criticisms.
(4) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(5) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(6) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(7) In contrast, the 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment" , published by the New York Academy of Sciences, comes to a very different conclusion.
(8) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(9) Good grades in English are also crucial for schools, which face being closed or converted into academies if results fall below government targets.
(10) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(11) Pulis says the 20-year-old “just hasn’t been at that level to play games, having come from academy football”.
(12) 760 patients suffering from acute pulmonary oedema were treated between 1980 and 1986 at the Institute of Anaesthesiology of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw.
(13) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(14) A sample of 558 pediatricians selected at random and 385 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Adolescent Health (SAH) completed a 41-item questionnaire.
(15) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(16) Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land.
(17) The victories, at the Sony Radio Academy Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, will be a boost for protestors hoping to persuade the BBC that the stations should be saved.
(18) "The Academy and Medical Royal Colleges are not able to support the bill as it currently stands.
(19) Very few have been through a police academy and most are entirely untrained.
(20) The Liberal Democrats fought the 2010 election in explicit opposition to free schools and academy plans.
Conservatoire
Definition:
(n.) A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly its other services ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 also have no room for the debate, fronted by STV’s political editor Bernard Ponsonby from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
(2) In the end, I studied composition at Birmingham Conservatoire.
(3) The two-hour debate will take place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland , in Glasgow, in front of an audience of 350 members of the public.
(4) Pianist Liam Noble has a foot both in the traditional jazz world, and in the changing one, as a player and as a teacher at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music.
(5) The communique is endorsed by more than 400 arts, academic and scientific institutions and individuals, including the Creative Industries Federation, the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Philharmonic Society , Rada, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and St Andrews, and – among others – Cox, Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the cellist and principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, Julian Lloyd Webber.
(6) As the post was to take charge of chamber music at the Parma Conservatoire, he learned invaluable lessons about listening to other musicians and lost no time in familiarising his Italian students with scores by Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky.
(7) Her parents, Caroline and Julian Pike, were opera singers (her father is now professor of vocal and operatic studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire) and she loved to watch them perform - "I spent quite a lot of time in rehearsal rooms or in the wings, looking at them being the stars.
(8) British schools of music face competition from European and US conservatoires that charge lower fees – or, like the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, offer full scholarships.
(9) She danced as a child too, getting into the Trinity Laban Conservatoire at eight: "I'll be very honest with you.
(10) Scott Rawlings, a 21-year-old pianist from the Conservatoire, said of Cable, "I know I like him.
(11) Theillaud began teaching at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique d’Orléans, where the teenage Cotillard enrolled to study acting.
(12) Sturgeon was seen shaking her head at the first minister's bizarre line of questioning about aliens as she watched the first Salmond v Alistair Darling TV debate live at Glasgow's Conservatoire.
(13) Music Royal Conservatoire of Scotland courses OMG's Cameras Everywhere is a free week of music video-making in London (29 July-4 August); Royal Conservatoire of Scotland kids' courses include a "junkyard jam", making music from scrap (from £35); and Youth Music Theatre has courses in Edinburgh and south-east England (£495).
(14) He auditioned for a place at the French Conservatoire d’Angers with Tchaikovsky’s Flight of the Bumblebee.
(15) Alejandro talks in private about this being one of the poorest corners of Europe, insisting: "And see how this is where the talent is – not only in the conservatoire.
(16) When US conductor Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms last year (for the first time in its 119 seasons) it caused a flurry of regressive comments – including those from Bruno Mantovani, head of the Paris Conservatoire, who said most women would find conducting too “physically demanding” .
(17) Education: St-Martyrs Canadiens Primary School; Joseph-François Perreault High School; Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique du Québec Productions: L'attaque quotidienne, 1979; Saturday Night Taxi '80; En Attendant '82; Circulations '84; The Dragons' Trilogy '85; Vinci '86; Polygraph '87; Tectonic Plates '88; Needles And Opium '91; Midsummer Night's Dream '92; Seven Streams Of The River Ota '94-96; Elsinore '96; Geometry Of Miracles, '99; The Far Side Of The Moon 2001.