Sentences with phrase «swedish schools»

As part of ongoing efforts to determine the root cause, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (the equivalent of the U.S. federal government's Department of Education) called for a regrading of a subset of standardized tests administered during 2010 and 2011.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipality.

It is possible of course that clever individuals choose other ways of getting on in the world than through education, but the fact remains that many children in British and Swedish schools do not appear to fulfil their academic potential.

As I've already mentioned the Swedish school food filled with E-numbers, and the very unhealthy British lunches that have been shown in many blogs on the internet lately.

However, I have later found out that the Swedish school lunches are in fact not that healthy and contain endless numbers of «E-numbers», but something that I do think is still better is the idea of what «normal» food is or isn't, which I've seen has been a frequently discussed topic here.

In 2011, 20 % of Swedish school children attended free schools at upper secondary level and 10 % attended free schools at primary or lower secondary level.

«We believe this is down to Swedish school lunches.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power, in cooperation with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and the research institute Swerea IVF.

Fellow attendee Katarina Lantz - Dretnik, a Year 1 teacher at London's Swedish School said: «I attended a recent Day of Discovery and it was a fantastic event.

But in the wake of the country's nose dive in the PISA rankings, there's widespread recognition that something's wrong with Swedish schooling.

The parents of more than 10,000 students learned this difference the hard way last year, when the Danish private equity group Axcel abruptly announced its exit from the Swedish school market, stating that it could no longer cover the continued losses.

Several of our findings suggest that national democratic culture mediated the way that the voucher plan was taken up in the Swedish school system.

School officials also sent a copy to the Swedish School Inspectorate.

Patrik Welt, principal of AB Videdals Privatskolor in Malmö, said he would like to see the Swedish School Inspectorate look more at school quality.

One of the first Swedish school companies to enter the UK state sector it reportedly boasted former education secretary Gove as a «huge admirer».

«It was in the early 2000s that the Swedish school system somehow seems to have lost its soul,» he said at a press conference in Stockholm.

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, «Is Swedish School Choice Disastrous — or Is the Reading of the Evidence?

Anders Björklund, Per - Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger, «Education, Equality, and Efficiency: An Analysis of Swedish School Reforms During the 1990s,» Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Report (2004), p. 117.

He is a strong supporter of the Swedish School of Los Angeles, and a judge in the Shakespeare Festival.

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with the Swedish School of Textiles, has invented an energy - generating fabric that's flexible and works more efficiently when more weight is placed on it or it's wet.

Helsingfors: Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.

Not exact matches

So far, they've challenged each other to a bandy hockey penalty shootout (spoiler alert: Prince William won), met the Swedish royal family for lunch and a walkabout, and sat in on a mental health activity session at a school in Stockholm.

Yet judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.

She was sent to boarding school but shortly after the death of her father was inspired by a Swedish noblewoman and mystic of the 13th century — St Bridget (or Birgitta).

The custom did not become universally popular in Swedish society until the 20th century, when schools and local associations in particular began promoting it.

p.s. i am currently learning Swedish as my language for school!

Rank League Selections 1 Canada Ontario Hockey League 48 2 Canada Western Hockey League 34 3 United States United States Hockey League 27 4 Canada Quebec Major Junior Hockey League 14 5 United States NCAA 13 Sweden J20 SuperElit (Sweden - Junior) 13 7 Sweden Swedish Hockey League 10 8 Russia Junior Hockey League (MHL) 9 9 Finland Liiga 7 10 Finland Nuorten SM - liiga (Finland - Junior) 5 United States North American Hockey League 5 United States U.S. High School 5

The Issaquah School District PTSA, in partnership with the Issaquah Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they can be.

The Portage Park Elementary School Choir entertains at the «St. Lucia Swedish Queen of Light «ceremony and program at noon Dec. 13 in the east lobby of the Daley Center, Washington and Dearborn Streets (346-3278).

To create the Natural Breastfeeding program, obstetrician Theresa Nesbitt («Dr. Theresa») and I drew from the work of many: the Swedish breast - crawl researchers, UK scientist Dr. Suzanne Colson, international brain - science experts, the Prague School, and Americans Dr. Christina Smillie and Dr. Brian Palmer.

Mayan abdominal massage - Kamala Oliver [phone] She obtained her Massage Therapy Diploma from the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences in New York City, a Medical Massage Diploma from the Baltimore School of Massage and is a Professional ATMAM (The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage) practitioner.

Meanwhile we are promised a better NHS and Swedish - style schools with an emergency budget in which the axe will fall on a fragile economy and in ways that will make Swedish levels of spending more distant than ever.

In a damning piece for the Guardian's Comment is Free site today, Mona Sahlin, the Swedish Social Democratic party leader, says her country is about to abandon the school reforms the Tories want to install in Britain.

His particular interest is in the establishment of new schools such as academies and free schools and part of my research is looking at Swedish free schools and Charter schools in the USA.

The evidence not only from Swedish free schools but from American charter schools shows that such schools help to close the gap between the poorest and the wealthiest children.»

The Conservative policy for Swedish - style «free» schools also stays, under which groups including parents can set up their own institutions if they are unhappy with the standards of local schools.

He was fresh out of high school when he volunteered as a sonar operator in the Swedish navy for his national service at the tail end of the Cold War.

Information material has been prepared for schools in cooperation with the Swedish supermarket chain Ica with the help of which children all across Europe can learn how to become friends with their bodies.

The small pilot study was led by Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and also was conducted at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Michael Levitt of Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA «for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.»

It seems likely that many of the satisfied one - in - four are studying in graduate schools, a recent addition to the Swedish university system, which caters for only a small fraction of postgraduates.

The downside of this is that it made it harder for me to learn Swedish, and my daughter, who studied in an international school, had the same problem.

Bengt Nordéns contribution to form a strong research school in Gothenburg has been successful: as many as 12 out of his about 50 former PhD students and postdocs have become professors, abroad or at other Swedish universities, and three have returned to contribute a forceful environment with their own profiles within the Department: Prof Bo Albinsson (femtosecond spectroscopy and fundamentals of electron transfer), Prof Per Lincoln (new transition - metal - based DNA ligands and statistical mechanics for gene targeting), Prof Björn Åkerman (fundamentals and applications of DNA physical chemistry).

«Despite the differences emerging in the pathophysiology of PsA and rheumatoid arthritis, tofacitinib, which works on many different cytokines, shows efficacy in the treatment of both conditions,» said lead author Professor Philip J. Mease from the Swedish - Providence St. Joseph Health Systems and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, US.

To meet this need, the Swedish National Research School in Medical Bioinformatics is now being started.

She received her massage therapy degree from Brenneke School of Massage in Seattle, Washington where she concentrated on Swedish, Lomi Lomi, Prenatal, and Injury Treatment massage, as well as Reiki and Aromatherapy.

She trained with the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Gothenburg from the age of nine.

Let Me In Premise: Based on the Swedish cult horror hit Let The Right One In — which itself is adapted from the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist — this English - language version stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as a bullied middle - schooler and Chloe Moretz as the like - aged (in appearance, anyway) vampire who befriends him.

She is in fact the Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, who can probably get a man to fall in love with her given her perfect figure, her graceful steps which appear to evoke «finishing school,» and her flirtatious ways.

As a child, Alicia acted in small theatre productions and attended the Royal Swedish Ballet School, before an injury forced her to give up dancing.