Sentences with phrase «academic challenges came»

But still, many of the discipline problems and academic challenges came from the ninth grade class.

Much of my awareness of academic challenges comes from my work running development programmes for new and recent principal investigators and more senior academics, listening to them describe the challenges of their roles.

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The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

«I was lucky coming from a lab [at Michigan] that didn't have financing issues,» Conley says, but she knows that securing adequate funding is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge in many academic labs.

This tension sometimes complicates the collaboration but can also lead to mutual inspiration; academic researchers will come up with novel theoretical approaches while the industrial researchers will formulate surprisingly challenging problems.

Chris» academic background and scientific approach allow him to shed light on the «how's» and «why's» in a way that ensures that both Paleo adherents and skeptics will come away enlightened and challenged.

He tries out and gets a spot on an academic quiz team that is training to compete on the BBC series «University Challenge» — the title for the film comes from a catch phrase of the show.

According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.

Lindsey Gwaltney spent much of elementary and middle school searching for new academic challenges, because her classroom assignments came so easily.

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

Students must come to terms with challenges such as leaving home, fitting in with a new group of peers, managing new freedoms, and meeting academic goals.

Violeta Ramos is a Success Adviser, for College Success Arizona, working with college students in Northern Arizona and in the Phoenix area, navigate the academic and personal challenges that come with college.

In all, the response to the Times story illustrates the ongoing struggle for reporters when it comes to test score data, the pros and cons of data visualization as a way for journalists to engage readers, and the challenges of meeting the needs of academics, editors, and readers at the same time.

The issue is that Governor Malloy's education reform bill sets up a system of Commissioner's Network Schools to focus resources on a set of schools that face the greatest challenges when it comes to academic achievement.

This academic year we wanted to encourage parents to come into the setting on a regular basis but without the requirement to commit, since many have jobs and younger children which makes it more challenging for them to give up their time.

Students and teachers come together to decide the best learning strategies for individual students based on a set of common challenging academic standards.

Academics already come with sometimes insurmountable challenges which thwart forward progress.

«The superintendents share solutions with each other to the challenges that come with scaling innovation,» said Edna Wallace, NCLDC Lead at RTI International «The superintendents and chief academic officers regularly take best practices from other districts in the network and implement them in a way that meets their local need.»

Newly designed schools have the advantage of considering the challenges established schools may face when it comes to educating students in the era of accountability, high stakes academic testing, and college and career preparation.

Writing any type of academic document comes with a set of challenges.

Writing a Psychology assignment might come with a set of challenges as it is a vast academic discipline which involves studying the science of behavior and mind.

It goes without saying that higher education does come with a range of challenges, such as essay writing, together with multiple other academic responsibilities.

In addition to these influences, the challenges that came with the ongoing precariousness of academic life — a lack of tools, materials and a quality educational program — led the young creators to meet and exchange their reflections on the artistic production they observed around them, as well as the situations and challenges that emerged from an educational program that took up techniques but that neither made the media needed to master them available nor contemplated the option of the gesture as a solution.

It is a bit tiresome to have these affirmative action challenges come up, though, given that most of the American universities challenged have much more extensive «legacy» admissions, by which children of alumni or big donors are admitted without meeting the usual academic requirements.

So when the right plaintiffs and counsel came along ready to launch a challenge in Carter v Canada, the foundation for the case had been laid (by these pieces as well as essential scholarship produced by others in Canada and abroad) and the academic analysis was ready for the litigation strategy (both to shape, support, and be used by it).

This position is not for illiterates, so the hirer expects you to state whatever academic qualification and training you have to tackle the challenges that come with the job.

A one day challenge event which took place on 24th April 2017 which brought together family members, practitioners and managers, policy makers and academics to discuss the information and ideas that have come from the consultation process and to help us develop the Inquiry's main conclusions and recommendations; and