Sentences with phrase «only first year students»

As a major manifesto pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) since 2008, the government has commenced the programme which has seen only first year students entering public senior high schools for free.

The paragraph in question states that ONLY first year students in the 2017/2018 academic year, whose number is given as 467,692 at page 102 of the budget will benefit from the programme,» he added.

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Many of our student loan refinance lenders offer various repayment options, including interest - only payments for the first four years.

The way the university is constructed is indicative of its fragmentation: many first year students live in one part of the campus, virtually devoid of contact with the rest of the student population; some the colleges within the university have their own dormitories, which also contain classrooms and faculty offices; many of the dormitories house only students with certain majors and contain the classrooms and faculty offices of those disciplines.

At the spring baccalaureate service students sometimes comment that this is only their second trip into Duke Chapel, the first presumably being freshman convocation four years earlier — a required event.

We are still a predominantly Christian society — it only makes sense to close for Christian holidays if most of the students would be missing (I think we only closed for two or three anyway — New Years Day [it is a Holy day of obligation as well as the first day of the year], Good Friday, but maybe just a partial day off, can't remember, and Christmas.

Nearly 52 percent of first - year students feel isolated on their campus, and Horner points out that many students only form relationships with other students, separating themselves from the people living outside their school.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, only around 40 percent of four - year college students graduate within six years from the school they first entered.

The 26 - year - old sociology student made history last season when he not only became the first Oxford player to win six Blues, joining Cambridge's former England international Herbert Fuller (1878 - 1883) on that number, but the first player since 1872 to win six times.

Because the UVM study is small in scope (involving only two elementary schools in Vermont) and conducted only in the semester before (spring 2012) and the first year after implementation of the new nutrition rules (spring 2013), this study is an inaccurate representation of the school meals environment and behaviors of students in the lunchroom.

Currently, only first - year students benefit from the progressive roll out but it is expected to be extended to cover continuing students.

The problem for me is that students can only borrow for the length of their first undergraduate degree plus one year.

«When we conducted the furniture audit, we had only ninety - four set of furniture, as against six - hundred and seven first - year students that were posted to the school.

Kwesi Pratt said government must explain why only first year SHS students are going to enjoy the new educational policy since it contradicts the promises made by Akufo - Addo.

Although Paladino said he didn't discuss politics much, he did run his first political campaign — his only campaign before this year — while on campus, and won a seat along with Pavone on the Law Student Senate.

PhD students from around the country that I've met at scientific meetings agreed with me that we would like to meet with our supervisors every 2 weeks throughout our doctoral training, and not only in the first year.

Many of NMSU's students are the first in their families to pursue higher education, however, and as of 2014, only 46 % were graduating within six years.

During its first year, not only did its students greatly outperform an equivalent group of at - risk high - school students, but they also performed on a par with average Binghamton high - school students on state - mandated exams.

Of the 158 students who participated in the program's 1st year, 74 were recruited without first having secured an assignment, and only 85 participants eventually found and completed consulting assignments.

«We wanted a vehicle that exerted only this function — that of a vehicle that was small (a peptide), and that has permanence in blood,» says Roger Prades, PhD students and first author of the study, which has taken four years of research into peptide chemistry.

In the University of Toronto MD / PhD Program, the majority of students complete the preclinical courses of medical school (i.e., the first year and a half) and then pursues full - time graduate work, completes the PhD, and only then returns to medical school to complete the clinical component.

When interacting with groups in which they were the only woman, the participants — especially first - year students — were more likely to perceive the upcoming group work as a threat.

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single - sided acoustic tractor beam — that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction.

MD - PhD programs are not the only available approach for training future physician - scientists, but they have, in many respects, become the most visible.2 — 4 In an MD - PhD curriculum, students complete the requirements for both the MD and the PhD, usually by starting with the first two years of medical education and then focusing on graduate school before returning to complete the medical degree.

In an unrelated study of more than 1,000 first - year medical students, Shalini Reddy, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of student professional development programs at the Pritzker School of Medicine, and colleagues found that only a quarter of students said they would choose a primary care specialty if they had to select a field now.

The first level alone lasts between two to five years, and that's only after passing the introductory level two course that the student is certified to teach.

its not just the media perpetuating it either... I am a first year medical student and that is the exact kinda crap they teach us... that «ONLY animal based products contain ALL the amino acids» hence they are called «high biologic value» foods while plant - based is deemed «low biologic» and can not offer all the AA's we need so that is why we need to supplement with meat to have a «well - balanced diet», it is all baloney!!!

First, it was a waste of time (over five years) and money — both the government's and WGU's — which distracted from the real need: making progress in higher education to better serve students, such as low - income ones, of whom only 8 percent graduate four - year college programs in six years.

Nearly 50 percent of first - and second - grade students experience math anxiety, and forcing young kids to take timed tests when they're not ready can backfire, as Tonya Blanchette shared: «This happened to my son early on and he became very stressed and anxious at only 6 years old, claiming he hated math.

Our school is mid-pivot in technology — we're in our second year of a middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and our last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next year we'll have only one lab).

Many parents believe that so - called «academic redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, will give their children a leg up not only when they first enroll in school, but throughout their educational careers and later in life.

When we first got to St. Andrew's, we provided students with two sets of exams, one just before Thanksgiving and the other at the end of the year (we now only give one set of exams for yearlong courses).

In its first year, only families with students in grades three through six were invited to the event because those grade levels encounter testing, but students in all grades and their families have been included in subsequent years.

Teachers at Flat River Middle School realized after their first year of conferences that having students reflect on their work throughout the year not only helped them prepare for the conference, it helped them learn more effectively, said Bettez.

Although among the group only Utzinger had any prior fundraising experience, they decided to issue a «cohort challenge» to their Ed.D. peers with the goal of convincing every member of the first - year cohort — 32 in total — to contribute to the HGSE Fund, which seeks to raise resources for many areas of the Ed School including financial aid, Gutman Library, and faculty and student support services.

On the first day of school this year I dropped off my second - grade son outside his portable, waiting only until his teacher opened her door and welcomed students in.

While the percentage of students enrolling in college right after high school has grown since the early 1970s, only 58 percent of first - time freshmen in four - year colleges earn a bachelor's degree within six years, according to the latest edition of The Condition of Education.

In 2016, its initial year, gratuidad applied only to students in the lower 50 percent of the income distribution, not the lower 70 percent as first proposed.

What began as a program with only 20 students in its first year has quickly grown to 65 students today.

During their first year in the country, the students will be tested only if school officials recommend that they should be, and even then, their scores will be used only for baseline information.

Only three of the schools that accepted voucher students in the program's first year enrolled 10 ormore 3rd graders.

Looking first at the share of students in the low - income group who received Pell Grants in the most recent year (2011 - 12) reveals that only 68.7 percent of low - income students received a Pell Grant in 2011 - 12.

My first priority is always to get to know people, and at a smaller school like Toorak College I've had the opportunity to not only become familiar with all the students and teachers, but after just a year or so I've managed to get to know many of the parents and wider community associated with the school as well.

Even though most teachers reported that students were highly engaged when working with digital content and were better able to learn the material, only one - fifth of Rogers pilot teachers said their students did better on benchmark tests the first year (see Figure 1).

Because of the study's design, the research within this one year's data only included students in their first year enrolled in the state's voucher program.

But for the first time in more than a decade, the State Board of Education may only provide the test to low - income students for free next year, requiring more well - off families to shoulder the cost of the five - subject, $ 52.50 exam.

The first results of testing on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers tests — introduced as part of sweeping educational changes begun several years ago — showed only 31 percent of students met the standard for Algebra I and 40 percent of students met the standard for 10th - grade English.

First, the report tracked test scores for only one year after students participated in the program.

A third study using a different approach and using data only on Texas schools finds mixed results in the first year of implementation including negative impacts on student achievement in elementary and middle school, and positive effects on high school graduation rates.

If students entered multiple lotteries over a series of years, we only included the first entry.