Sentences with phrase «as learning institutions»

As learning institutions bestowed with the societal charge of preparing informed citizens and knowledge workers, schools must help their students and graduates master the dominant information landscape of today and tomorrow, not just yesterday.

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Education provider Navitas has confirmed it is in advanced negotiations with US - based and other global learning institutions, saying it would reveal details of a partnership as early as this week.

Three months into his new job as dean of INSEAD (no. 2 on Poets & Quants» non-U.S. MBA rankings) it's déjà vu all over again as he learns the ins and outs of a new institution.

And despite lessons learned from the economic crisis — where, arguably, too many extroverted risk - takers in leadership positions wrought financial ruin — and the value of having quiet leaders who, as Good to Great author Jim Collins puts it, «build not their own egos but the institutions they run,» a workplace stigma around introversion still exists.

As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»

It's a good educational book, good one for the students and the institutions that are higher learning, it can benefit from to help these young people as they enter the workforce become more successful.

«The public has a right to know what happened, and we should be able to learn from that and figure out what we need to change in our institutions to get better as we go forward.»

It described the nation's largest bank as «insular», saying it had not learned from experiences and mistakes and its «continued financial success dulled the senses of the institution».

Suddenly we learn, almost as an afterthought, that the institution of marriage may have to change to accommodate the special needs of homosexuals.

Einstein could, even as a non-sectarian institution, learn from the Jesuits of Georgetown about the insights into healing and care that religion uniquely provides.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

As New Urbanists came to realize that existing zoning ordinances, street design manuals and housing industry practices were all impediments to making traditional towns and neighborhoods, they began developing new kinds of zoning ordinances; found sympathetic traffic engineers to help write a different set of street design standards; renewed the practice of creating high - quality pattern books to guide home - builders; and learned how to persuade lending institutions of the economic advantages of financing traditional neighborhoods.

As one who is also learning to be church outside the institution, I can fully relate to that feeling of fatigue at having to defend the decision.

Fisher: As a secular institution of higher learning, Reed strives to provide an environment that is open to all denominations and faiths.

Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University, the other new nonsectarian institution of higher learning, grieved over a government report that as of 1876 there were 545 degree - granting institutions in the country.

As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning.

He expected to go to Harvard or Amherst as others from his community usually did, but he learned to his surprise that it had been determined to send him to Fisk University, an all - black institution in Nashville, Tennessee.

Although Bok shares the widespread skepticism of «competency - based learning» as it is practiced in some institutions, he credits the apparent success of this approach to the clarity of the objectives its practitioners have established.

As a result of this act at least one institution of higher learning was established for these practical purposes in each state.

Second, if there is a breakdown, as there has been this year, and speakers are disinvited or effectively forced to withdraw, no one should step into the breach.If you care about civility and procedure on campus, if you care about the college as an institution of higher learning, you should not reward bad behavior.

To learn to put up with this empirical church is the way both of Christian humility at its best and of Christian growth in God's grace, not to mention the patent fact that such cooperation may do much to make the empirical institution more conformable to its intention and significance as the Body of Christ.

They built lively and vibrant institutions of learning — St. Olaf, Concordia, Augsburg, Augustana, Luther Seminary — as well as hospitals, orphanages, old people's homes and publishing houses.

It is important to stress that the two dominant lines of criticism noted above began during the 1870s and 1880s at precisely the same time that the modern research university emerged as a new institution of higher learning in America.

Boston, after all, is known as the Athens of America, not the Corinth of America: This city, with good reason, has been called the academic capital of the nation — and, given the massive accumulation of institutions of higher learning here, it may well be called the academic capital of the world.

Process thought has much to offer in suggesting a sound perspective on the principles that should govern the work of — as it should also determine the approach to — education both of the young, whether they be children or adolescents, and of adults who are enrolled in institutions of higher learning or in other ways participate in what appropriately is called the educational process.

One aspect of the problem is administration; particularly in institutions of higher learning, treatment of various departments and their faculties is as discrete, isolated substances, seeking their own competing self interests, that need to be balanced, instead of a community of common inquiry embarked on the quest for a common vision.

This dilemma is well illustrated in Protestant institutions of higher learning which, as we have seen, typically aspired to be public institutions as well as church institutions, pursuing the laudable goal of serving the public as well as their own people.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

The differences within the churches is something that they as institutions have learned to live with — a duality that provides a balance and corrective to the excesses of either group.

But because the church must learn to be the community of faith, we must abandon the idea of the church as an institution of power.

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

However, this third step will improve black institutions of theological education only if the love of learning (the condition for theology) prevails there and in the family and the community, where the discipline of learning to love (the work of theology) is regarded as the ultimate joy.

This essay was written with the conviction that the curriculums of all institutions of higher learning should include courses in the religio - scientific study of a variety of religions, including some of the major religions of the East as well as the Judeo - Christian religious traditions of the West.

The predator's skills and attitudes are also those cherished by the economic establishment, and successfully learning them is the way value is most profoundly appropriated at MIT and at other institutions of higher education as well.

Sure, Jewish teaching, but Christians and the Church as an institution would do well to learn from this.

The focus of concern here would be to help each Christian learn how to function as an agent of the kingdom in the main institution with which he or she is involved.

Although the work of the foundation can not mitigate the present drought crisis, landowners in Texas and other stricken areas are fortunate to have such an institution as a focal point for learning the lessons of how best to prepare for droughts of the future.

I have watched Mourinho's career evolve as a succession of seriously wealthy and influential men, controlling some of Europe's most revered footballing institutions, each learn too late that there is less to him than meets the eye.

And just as we think of colleges as institutions of higher learning, so it is with gambling.

Marriage generally does not support activities and friendships outside the couple, as I've learned in my research for The New I Do, leading some to call it a greedy institution.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Whereas Mr. Hayford must have made this irresponsible conclusive statement which can only be based on observation but not one born out of a study, the management and SRC of GIJ must note that as an institution of higher learning, students are to be seen to live according to the ethics of the profession.

«I was shocked when I learnt about this event on social media, at a time when as a country we're cutting budgetary support to various institutions and as such we the citizens would want to see some seriousness in government business, the Akufo Addo administration is rather thinking of a celebration.

President Mahama said government had released GHC 37 million cedis to the Controller and Accountant General's Department to be paid to appropriate recipients as their books and research allowance as part of government's resolve to facilitate teaching and learning at the tertiary institutions.

«Our agencies in charge of educational development must find a way of encouraging our youth to aspire learning in the country's institutions but as well attract foreign students and researchers so that our global ranking of universities can soar,» Buhari said.

«In April 2017, the party's school working committee, based on its previous report proposed the formation of the Ghana Institute of Social democracy as an institution of higher learning and research to train many party comrades and other interested stakeholders in the fundamental principles and philosophy of the party.»

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toAs I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toas it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

Opponents of affirmative action are requesting admissions data from institutions of higher learning to make sure the schools are adhering to the policy of using race as one of many factors rather than having it be the determining factor.

Interestingly, none of Zhan's new grants are from NIH, but he says the skills he's learned as an ECR transfer readily to applying for grants from other funding institutions.