Sentences with phrase «higher education points»

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education points out that the editors - in - chief of two other prominent scientific publishers, Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier, declined to sign the letter, although they agreed that journal impact factors shouldn't be used to evaluate individual scientists.

As Inside Higher Education pointed out, academics «inhabit a parallel publishing ecosystem: a constellation of university presses and journals that publish slowly, offer few economic returns, and subject all work to painstaking peer review.

Not exact matches

«I think higher education will be in trouble,» Elmore told Business Insider, pointing to the rise of online learning and mounting college debt.

It's a point of view that's gaining traction: The fictional Gregory is said to be based on billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a vocal critic of higher education.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

That latter approach makes much more sense if the point is to make higher education more affordable for middle class families who can't afford to sock away large sums in 529 investment accounts.

Instead, create high - quality gated content for prospects seeking education or ways to solve their pain points relevant to your target market.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

The overriding point here is that education cost inflation is raging higher every year.

I understand your point — you mean college instead of «secondary education» (high school) but its worth correcting.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

In a 2009 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated book.

Also I find interesting that the article points out those of less education scored worse than those with a higher education.

But from the point of view of the ideals that have shaped higher education in the past, this is a disaster.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

At one point it even commends to the attention of the EU «examples of Member States combining the liberal legislation of abortion with effective sexuality education, high - quality family planning services and the availability of different contraceptives which combine lower abortion rates and higher birth rates.»

Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

I have nevertheless tried to discern here, by tacking back and forth between them and noting certain revealing points of intersection, the shape of the conversation that provides the current context for discussion about religion and higher education.

John B. Cobb makes a crucial point in this regard: «Since the actual decisions about the course of history are made on other grounds and on the basis of a situation that is not Christ - centered, one cuts oneself off from all that» (Occasional Papers, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1:12, August 9, 1976, p. 6).

Besides, what better use of my GI Bill education than to present what I know now to have been the intellectual high point of my military career?

But in these lectures I will be emphasizing, from my Christian point of view, what is wrong with contemporary education and the new form I would like to see higher education take.

Similarly, the «open Christian» point of view can not permit a definition of the end of higher education in terms of the acceptance by the student of a Christian ethical view of life.

There is a role for pointing out the higher education and IQ of atheists, such as when Christians wrongly claim the opposite or when discussing analytic skills and education, but is not, in itself, an argument for atheism.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

Bless the man for teaching America kids lack nutritional education and pointing out our high fat diets excluding school, but lets get to the real solutions and quit blaming others around him.

This birth mother would like to continue with her college career at this point and would like a family, too, that values higher education for their children.

Gatorade G - Force Infiltrates Schools Under Guise of «Hydration Education» Read how Gatorade employs a sales force dedicated to winning over every «point of sweat» — the company's own term for the high schools it aggressively targets.

Unfortunately in some discussions the lack of sewing experience and stress points in a carrier was obvious and I hope parents and manufacturer alike will find proper education on high quality sewing.

This course explores Waldorf high school education from a multitude of vantage points and with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities that teaching today's teenagers offers us.

Raise of the corruption and favoritism, in some nations is common to see that government workers, and officers aren't chosen by their education or skills, they are pointed because their party's militancy or in some cases because their are family members of a high government officer.

A record number of city high - school juniors took the SAT exam last year — with black and Hispanic kids posting the biggest percentage - point gains, according to the NYC Department of Education.

The high school graduation rate in New York State barely budged last year, inching up just half a percentage point, according to data released by the state Education Department.

Mr. Sanders seems to be echoing President Obama, who pointed out this summer that the $ 80 billion the country spends on incarcerating people could pay for universal pre-kindergarten education, a doubling of salaries for high school teachers or the elimination of public college tuition.

Students are embarrassed because they know that they are listening to and spouting a bundle of scaremongering lies, spin and propaganda about what is, in fact, a funding proposal that makes higher education free at the point of entry and easier to afford than at any time since Labour introduced tuition fees.

He pointed out that the development of children through education is dear to President Mahama and as such the NDC government given a «massive infrastructural facelift» to Jema Senior High School with Ampoma getting a kindergarten complex and modern ICT Centre.

The deputy prime minister responded by pointing out Labour had broken election manifesto promises on higher education funding in 1997 and 2001.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for her part, pointed out that State Senator Toby Stavisky, a Queens Democrat and high - ranking member of the Higher Education Committee, had introduced a bill last year to provide free tuition for New York State residents to SUNY, CUNY and community colleges — a sign, she said, of the importance of having a unified Democratic Albany.

Spending on education as a proportion of GDP rose steadily in the period 1997 - 2009, reaching its highest point of 6.2 % of GDP in the period 2009 - 10 during Gordon Brown's New Labour government, according to the IFS.

Reduce student hunger: The governor has proposed a five - point plan to reduce student hunger from kindergarten on up through higher education.

The groups, including High Achievement New York, point to a report that found up to $ 5 billion education funding would be in peril annually — about $ 2,000 per student.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Community Board 2 has called on the Department of Education to approve plans for Hunts Point High School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.»

Reiterating a point he made during a speech he gave Wednesday about racial and socioeconomic inequality in education, King said implementing pre-K in high - needs school districts is most urgent.

Cuomo has frequently pointed to New York's highest - in - the - nation spending per pupil, and argued that more money isn't always the answer to education challenges.

In response to the mayor's most recent attempt to point the finger at the union for the breakdown of evaluation talks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew observed, «Most people would be embarrassed that the state's highest education official has directly contradicted their statements about a new teacher evaluation system, but not the mayor.»

In Croatia, Žagrović points to «several very successful and very positive influences» from the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia and the Unity Through Knowledge Fund.