Sentences with phrase «as education action»

As Education Action Group's Steve Gunn wrote last week,

For instance, 230 million pounds were wasted on a policy known as Education Action Zones that was meant to encourage partnerships between business and schools in deprived areas.

Not exact matches

The organization recommends «actions» based on what issues people are interested in, such as health, education and the environment.

A lack of formal education, as well as investing experience, led to herd - like behaviour with stocks routinely rallying hard as investors followed the actions of others rather than using more traditional investment strategies like fundamentals or technicals.

When we create content at IDC to support our clients» content - based marketing efforts, we first indentify our clients» target audience (buying persona) plus buyer cycle stage (i.e., general awareness / education, preference, purchase and post-purchase; within each stage there are specific tasks or «jobs» you prospects / customers need to accomplish such as, short list creation, business case development, final recommendation and decision, etc.) We also consider our clients ideal outcome or action they want their target prospect / customer to take once they interact with the content or messaging.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

As I have said, price action is like reading a book from left to right; you have to know what happened on the previous page for the current page to make sense... this is a skill mastered with education / training, time and experience.

The investor education booklets cover the basics of several key investor topics such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds as well as provide information on the action steps you need to take at different stages of your life to prepare for your long term financial security.

But I do believe that we, perhaps with careful education as children, are capable of rising above our immediate selfish desires and doing things that are altruistic, and I DO N'T believe that such actions require the intervention of supernatural entities.

The graduates may in the short run have the relevant skills to help congregations organize themselves to engage in the several practices that comprise their common life (religious education, worship, pastoral care, social action, gathering and maintaining resources, etc.), to nurture and sustain them in those practices, and to grow as organizations.

It was as a tutor in Oriel College that Newman first had the chance to put into action his view of what university education should be like — and it proved to be controversial.

One year (4 units) of clinical pastoral education in community mental health, or its equivalent as defined by national certifying clergy organizations professionally concerned with community mental health and community action.

Against the sort of picture of theological education illustrated by Stackhouse's proposal, Wood rejects the view that theology bears on action as theory applied to praxis.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

>> > «And do you really expect me to give links to all the speeches made by right - wing politicians as they seek to justify their actions as regards education funding?»

He has some intelligent things to say about the madnesses of multiculturalism and affirmative action, and rightly deplores the national preemption of questions such as abortion and religion in public education.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.

Since the race question is a world issue, and not simply a local or national one, education and action as to its world implications are necessary.

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

Hence it deals with the theory of preaching, of Christian education, of social action and of worship as well as with the theory of divine and human nature, of God's activity and man's behavior.

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

It's an incredible opportunity for school nutrition professionals in Arizona to learn more about breakfast - in - the - classroom, to hear from their peers who have successfully implementing BIC, and to network with state - level partners as well as the original Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom: Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), and the School Nutrition Foundation (SNF).

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

As one of the actions in the School Food Plan, the Mayor of London, working with the London Food Board, and the Department for Education committed to jointly funding two flagship food boroughs in London, with initial funding of # 1.2 million.

Homebirth is just as safe» because homebirth in the UK is nothing like homebirth in the US, and most homebirth midwives in the US are actively fighting against having a system like the UK, because they don't want the medical education, they don't want to follow standards of practice, they don't want to be held responsible for their actions and outcomes.

If her D - MER is severe, and yet she is not at risk for weaning then using education as treatment, natural remedies and lifestyle changes is the more appropriate course of action.

She serves as the IBCLC for 8 counties in the LAACT Action grant project providing prenatal breastfeeding education and lactation consultations per physician's order.

Our suite of education and community outreach programs position Mass Audubon as a leader and catalyst for conservation by inspiring and stimulating individual and institutional action, ensuring that our members, visitors, and program participants feel and act upon a deep sense of interconnection and responsibility as stewards of the natural world.

Our International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Registered Nurse helps you recognize the possibilities for overcoming breastfeeding hurdles, as well as education in your setting, and takes action to provide assistance to fill those challenges.

The IWD otherwise known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace has since gained international recognition and celebrated world wide in different forms and even gained the status of a holiday in some countries such as Ukraine The day has also been marked under various themes encompassing peace and security, human rights, gender based violence, conflicts and hunger, education, gender equality, empowerment and affirmative actions, inclusion of woman in decision making, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and many more.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

Several crucial aspects then weigh in our conduct, actions and propensity to act morally or immorally, of which the environment (such as education, or social and cultural context) and exogenous conditions are crucial.

Those events unfolded as the state teachers union on Wednesday filed the first official petition asking State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board member.

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

The state budget could end up in court under some scenarios, as state lawmakers are discussing possible legal action against Governor Cuomo's budget, and his proposal to link a number of unrelated items, like ethics reform and education changes, to the spending plan.

The former Education minister disclosed that as part of its many plans to commemorate the first anniversary of the abduction of the girls by the Boko Haram sect, the group will from Wednesday, the 8 of April, begin a Global Week of Action with the theme: #ChibokGirls #NeverToBeForgotten which will terminate on Tuesday, 14th April, 2015.

BP Diaz appointed Geneal Chacon as the borough's representative to the Panel for Educational Policy, which holds approval power over the actions of the City Department of Education.

I believe, as do many others, that it is time to take action to improve our education system.

The New York state budget might end up in court under some potential scenarios, as state lawmakers are discussing possible legal action against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, and his proposal to link a number of unrelated items, like ethics reform and education changes, to the spending plan.

I see the action of the British Government as a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to provide Nigerians quality education, health and other basic necessities of life to Nigerians.

I see the action of the British Government as a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to provide Nigerians quality education, health and other basic necessities of life.

The state budget might end up in court under some scenarios, as state lawmakers are discussing possible legal action against Governor Cuomo's budget, and his proposal to link a number of unrelated items, like ethics reform and education changes, to the spending plan.

But first, realize that cutting education aid and SUNY and CUNY are not the best actions, as one of the things we can pride ourselves on is the state's educational infrastructure - as pitiful as it may now be.