Sentences with phrase «university academic reports»

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Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

Numerous other examples of Google influencing academics are highlighted by the Journal's report, including one from University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane who declined to take money from Google to support his paper that argued against «antitrust regulation of internet search engines.»

That's according to a report released this week by a team of academics and researchers from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, and others institutes.

With its highly ranked academic programs, both for graduates and undergraduates, Princeton University in New Jersey lands the top spot in U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Colleges list.

Reports are marked by faculty and must be completed satisfactorily to meet the University of Calgary's academic requirement to graduate with a Co-op designation.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

The lawsuit comes in the wake of the Wainstein report, which showed egregious cases of academic fraud at the university on a massive scale.

Reports of academic dishonesty — within prestigious universities, on high school exit exams, by authors of bestselling books — have been widespread this fall.

It is true the Fair Access to University Group (FAUG) of Tory MPs made the headlines with their report predicting «Armageddon» upon Ebdon's appointment, but very few Tory politicians with ministerial seats would be in favour of fetishising students» academic attainment independently of the context where it was achieved.

Both reports were instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Law at Legon, leading to the current bifurcated legal education system, which includes the academic component at a University followed by a professional component at Makola or an equivalent professional school.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

And read also this brilliant exchange between the author of the report and a sceptical academic from the University of Aberdeen:

He also said that there were reports that Senator Melaye possesses a fake Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria academic certificate.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has not taken over Federal Government's negotiation with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, contrary to media reports.

The report drew criticism from two University at Buffalo academics, Lower West Side residents and the Clean Air Coalition.

The report acknowledged that the academic culture at Duke University was not favorable for working women.

The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).

The 2004 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Mental Health Survey, from the Berkeley Graduate and Professional Schools Mental Health Task Force, concluded: «Almost half of all graduate students participating in this survey reported an emotional or stress - related problem that significantly affected their well - being and / or academic performance in the last twelve months.»

In September 2014, for example, Muhammad Shakil Auj, who was the dean of Islamic studies at the University of Karachi in Pakistan and was seen as an outspoken and progressive academic, «was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen... while en route to a reception that was to be given in his honor,» the report says.

A report released by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament on Thursday calls on universities and the government to review academic career paths and find ways to level the playing field for women.

Retention and completion rates won't increase until universities provide better academic, social, and financial support for underrepresented minority students, the report declares.

David Pearce of University College London, another contributor to the IPCC report, stressed that the purpose of the economic studies was purely academic, and not to provide a prescription for what policies governments should adopt in response to global warming.

University and college responses include 14 of the top 25 academic institutions with the largest number of postdocs in 1998, according to the COSEPUP report.

According to a report from the University of California (UC), nearly half of graduate students said that a mental or emotional problem had interfered with their academic work in the past year.

Charles Nemeroff's lax reporting of at least $ 1.2 million in drug company payments to his employer, Emory University, and similar payments to other academic psychiatrists prompted a 2007 Senate investigation.

Called «Primary care factors and unscheduled secondary care: a series of systematic reviews», the report has been compiled by researchers from the University's Centre for Academic Primary Care who looked at evidence from studies around the world.

Many university labs operate as quasi-independent «fiefdoms,» according to the report; lab chiefs have great authority to observe or ignore safety standards and often see outside safety checks as «infringing upon their academic freedom.»

It has already been reported that Alimohammadi, a theoretical particle physicist at the University of Tehran, was one of 240 academics at the institution who had declared their support for Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main opponent of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in last year's election.

How universities fare on reputational quality - of - life and academic rankings — such as those published by the Princeton Review or U.S. News & World Report — can have a measurable effect on the number of applications they — and their competitors — receive and on the academic competitiveness of the resulting freshman class, according to a new study.

Reback and Alter also examined the impact of academic rankings — such as those published by Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report — on the number and competitiveness of applicants received by universities and by their competitors.

Requiring private schools that receive public money to report student test scores improves academic achievement and ultimately enhances school choice, a Michigan State University scholar argues.

A new study published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, led by Professor Mark Purnell from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology, has discovered the best kind of rubber for reproduction.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

While the report offers no surprises for commercial algae fuel producers, it is welcoming to see attention from an academic institution, said Stephen Mayfield, director of the Center for Algae Biotechnology at the University of California, San Diego.

University Professionals of Illinois, the union that covers EIU faculty members, had already negotiated the pay raise for the faculty when, in mid-July, the university abruptly cancelled the appointments of the 29 adjunct faculty members, who had already signed letters of intent for the coming academic year, reports Inside University Professionals of Illinois, the union that covers EIU faculty members, had already negotiated the pay raise for the faculty when, in mid-July, the university abruptly cancelled the appointments of the 29 adjunct faculty members, who had already signed letters of intent for the coming academic year, reports Inside university abruptly cancelled the appointments of the 29 adjunct faculty members, who had already signed letters of intent for the coming academic year, reports Inside Higher Ed.

«A number of labs have reported differences in children's brain structures as a function of family income, but this is the first to relate that to variation in academic achievement,» says Kimberly Noble, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University who was not part of the research team.

In a paper published today in the journal Science, scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from the National University Hospital in Reykjavik and Uppsala University in Sweden report the discovery of two common single letter variations...

Dr. Jeff Volek, scientist and academic researcher at the University of Connecticut, noted that the DGAC report ignored scientific studies showing the effectiveness of low carbohydrate diets for weight loss.

This report was prepared by Informa with contributions from leading organisations including Consilium Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Fielding Nair International, The Arabian Education and Training Group, AURA Academic Institutions, Kids First Group, Brighton College International Schools, Blossom Nursery / Blossom Early Learning Centre, American University in Sharjah and Nora systems GmbH.

«We are accustomed to academic reports from around the world, including those from students who have been privately instructed and even self - taught,» said Marlyn McGrath, Harvard University's director of admissions, replying via email about the transcripts.

A recent Harvard University report synthesized concerns that had long been simmering as the country's dominant education push has been to raise academic standards and make more young people into successful college students.

The report released by the Australian Council of Learned Academics recommends introducing maths as a compulsory subject throughout high school, stronger prior condition requirements for university and the recruitment of science Ph.D. graduates into teaching.

Educational researchers David C. Berliner and Audrey L. Amrein, both from Arizona State University, published in 2002 a report on «The Impact of High - Stakes Tests on Student Academic Performance.»

A report released just today by the University of Minnesota has found that charter schools are meeting and sometimes exceeding their promises to raise academic achievement.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

Reporting the findings of an annual survey of Australian parents, grandparents and guardians, Monash University academics Associate Professor Shane Phillipson and Associate Professor Sivanes Phillipson say 84 per cent think their child's teacher is highly educated but a smaller number don't agree.

The report cited that private school students may have lower incentives to perform well at university and therefore are more likely to invest more effort in social life rather than academic work.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Academics from Australia's University of Newcastle and Curtin University recently published a report (Southgate, Smith & Cheers, 2016) looking at existing and emerging technology for use in K - 12 settings.