Sentences with phrase «education study group»

In May 2015, the Graduate Education Study Group, appointed by VU's Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, recommended that postdoctoral scholars be brought under one umbrella and under the leadership of the Graduate School at VU, including the establishment of a single, centralized office.

The three STEP programs help parents learn effective ways to relate to their children from birth through adolescence by using parent education study groups.

Not exact matches

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

This, combined with our approach of studying the Great Masters rather than secondary texts and doing this in seminar - style groups of maximum 15 students, makes the education and formation we offer truly life - changing.»

These needs should be regularly addressed in sermons, in Bible study groups, as well as in parent - education groups.

In the lay academies of the continent, the «house churches» of Britain, the ecumenical retreat centers in the U. S. and elsewhere, in denominational and local church camps, youth assemblies, parent education and Bible study groups, hundreds of persons are discovering the excitement of life - to - life communication in small groups.

He started a service for children and a study group for boys in the sixth form (the last year) of their education.

For then education is not merely the function of the Sunday morning church school or the weekly study groups, but of all of church life.

Teachers of parent - study groups prepare to conduct the small groups which have developed as offshoots of the Parent Education Center's Sunday morning program.

Not long ago I gave a talk to a group of students studying for advanced degrees in education.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

In making this proposal I am building on a suggestion first advanced by James F. Hopewell.Growing out of years of involvement in a group exploring different ways to study congregations [1] and his own ground - breaking Congregation: Stories and Structures, [2] Hopewell wrote an essay, «A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education.»

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

Volume V, Number 2 Balance in Teaching, Balance in Working, Balance in Living — Roberto Trostli Adult Education in the Light of Anthroposophy — Michael Howard Setting Priorities for Research: Attention - Related Disorders (ARD) Study — Kim Payne and Bonnie River - Bento Learning Expectations and Assessment Project (LEAP)-- Leap Project Group (Staley, Trostli, K. & B. Anderson, Easton) Sexual Abuse in Children: Understanding, Prevention, and Treatment — Michaela Glöckler, M.D.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

And researchers in Canada and Belarus also finished a comprehensive study, for the first time controlling for education and socio - economic factors by dividing mothers in Belarus into two groups: one in which mothers were encouraged to breastfeed by their care providers and one in which no additional encouragement was offered.

The study, by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, analyzes the accuracy of four commonly encountered talking points relating to the AP program:

However, there was no significant difference in level of education between the three study groups.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

Applicants are expected to be familiar with Waldorf Education and anthroposophy through faculty study and other study groups, workshops, and conferences.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

For instance, the study of Mattar et al. revealed a marginal increase in EB at six months after delivery among the group which received a prenatal educational intervention highlighting the benefits as well as the management of breastfeeding issues as the main content of the educational material (booklet), video, coaching session and counselling, compared to the group receiving only the booklet and the video, and the one recipient of only routine prenatal care, concluding that that educational material alone in the prenatal period is not enough and that specific prenatal education that addresses breastfeeding following a single meeting through counselling can significantly improve

24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages, including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visitation (2 studies)

These studies demonstrate that group prenatal education can have a significant impact on breastfeeding initiation.

Childbirth education does appear to be able to reduce fear of childbirth.5 While one study found childbirth education associated with increased odds of vaginal delivery, this may be due to the high proportion of women with a planned repeat cesarean in the control group.6

The aim of the study is to describe and to understand midwives» and child healthcare nurses» experiences of working with parent education groups through their descriptions of the role and what they find rewarding and challenging in that work.

The authors who interviewed the fathers of the intervention group (M.A.) and of the control group (P.C.) were unaware of the study hypothesis, and they were asked independently to cooperate in a parental education project.

The aim of the study was to describe and to understand midwives» and child healthcare nurses» experiences of working with parent education groups through their descriptions of the role and what they find rewarding and challenging in that work.

In Sweden, where the current study was carried out, parent education groups are held during pregnancy and throughout the first year of the newly born child (Fabian et al., 2005, 2006; Barimani and Hylander, 2012).

In a welcoming address, the vice chairman of the homeland study group, Mr Gotthold Yao Agra, said the Western Togoland was clandestinely removed at all levels of education in Ghana with the view to creating a vacuum that will consume the identity as a state among United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organisations.

Rebell and Weingarten were chosen by Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve on the 25 - member Education Reform Commission, a group he tasked in April 2012 with studying how to improve student performance in the state.

Cuomo said he will appoint a «representative group» from a pre-existing education commission he created to study the Common Core, and has asked that group to release its findings before his State of the State address in January.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

The legislation, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August, received support from the Police Athletic League, civics education group Generation Citizen and the Association of Teachers of Social Studies.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

Turnbull and his colleagues produced a study, published in 1991 by AVERT, the AIDS Education and Research Trust, which suggests there are considerably higher risks for some groups in prison.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

Changing the Culture of Math by E. Francisco, 16 September 2005 Since 1998 the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Program has helped women, especially those from underrepresented groups, enter graduate studies in mathematics.

The study, published today in open access journal Frontiers in Psychology, shows that this xenophobia, or a fear of other groups, was a strong predictor of a Brexit vote regardless of people's age, gender or education.

The doctors and 254 women who provided contact information and enrolled in the study were assigned randomly to either a control group (the women received a list of resources and normal physicians» care if needed; the doctors received a basic education packet on intimate partner violence) or an experimental group.

A study care manager regularly called patients in the intervention group to provide basic psycho - education; encourage healthy habits (sleep, exercise, avoid excess alcohol); assess treatment preferences for anti-anxiety medications; monitor response to treatment; and inform their primary care physicians of their care preference and progress.

Researchers have long studied and documented the influence religion has on social groups; however, few have examined the role it plays in education.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

In a study published last year in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 68 women attended four 90 - minute sessions of mindfulness - based group therapy consisting of meditation, cognitive therapy and education, whereas 49 women were assigned to a delayed - treatment group.

To conduct the U.S. National Science Foundation - funded study, researchers examined a group of 4,451 students from 752 high schools across the United States and followed them from 2002 to 2012 using the records of the Education Longitudinal Study of the U.S. National Center for Education Statisstudy, researchers examined a group of 4,451 students from 752 high schools across the United States and followed them from 2002 to 2012 using the records of the Education Longitudinal Study of the U.S. National Center for Education StatisStudy of the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.

U-Multirank was produced by a group of institutions led by the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies in the Netherlands and the Centre for Higher Education in Germany, and backed by $ 2 million from the European Union for the years 2013 to 2015.

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The survey began with a group of some 3000 women who were pregnant in 1983 and followed the general health, nutrition, medical care, and survival of their children; it has since expanded into an intergenerational study of health, education, and sexual behavior as those children grew up and are now having children of their own.

«Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15 % of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school,» writes Dr. Marie - Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.