0 a college that teaches people the skills needed for a particular job -- академия
a military academy
1 an organization whose purpose is to encourage and develop an art, science, language, etc -- академия
the Royal Academy of Music
Sponsors of academies are expected to play a key role in the strategic leadership of the schools they support.
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.
What about academies and agricultural societies, banks and bridges, charitable associations and churches?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
