Sentences with phrase «academic projects which»

Rather, you should focus on your skills gained through education and academic projects which would allow you to contribute to the operations of prospective company.

It is a complex academic project which should show students ability to apply theoretical knowledge to different cases and situations.

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And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

The ESRC is pleased to announce that it is supporting five new projects in partnership with business which will continue to apply academic knowledge and thinking to business problems.

A lack of trust in politicians was a central factor in the riots which plagued English cities earlier this month, according to an academic research project.

While HECap funding has importantly supported capital construction projects, it is not a substitute for Bundy Aid which serves students» academic success.

In a document titled: «Strike Bulletin No. 1», which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation's universities.

In 2016, the charity celebrated its 150th birthday with activities including an international academic conference at Keble College, Oxford, an exhibition in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and a Prison Diaries project, which involved people keeping diaries in prisons across the United Kingdom.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

Impenetrable academic writing — which is sometimes unavoidable in grant applications and journal articles — can also contribute to Wastebook compilers misinterpreting a research project's question, outcomes, and funding sources.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

Brains in Chains Marta Paterlini reported on the latest project of the Italian PhD - students association, ADI, which aims to highlight the plight of young academic researchers.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

«Such an experience certainly wouldn't be negative when considering an academic career, which nowadays and in our fields commonly involves strong collaborations with industry on research projects.»

The project involved full academic and commercial success, which has included a full academic cycle as well as full software development, which makes it an incredibly diverse project to have worked on.»

During the study, which was funded by the University's Innovation Partnership project, the academic team selected the best method to work with the data collected by Avacta and prepared the online diagnostic system over a period of six months.

CANU, which is 40 years old, has 42 members, most of them affiliated with academic institutions or retired, who receive monthly payments from the state budget to carry out projects in science and the arts.

«You have to try to be very specific about your project outcome and its implication for design,» says Murphy, «Otherwise you may end up doing more of an academic exercise instead of leading to a real product, which is what a company is looking for.»

The team, which also included academics from Essex University, York University and University College London, looked at a group of 9,500 white children born in 2000 and 2001, included in a project called the Millennium Cohort Study.

Oil companies are dictating future energy options by choosing which academic research projects recieve funding.

The stars of film, TV and stage have also joined forces with more than 160 activists, academics and service providers, to launch the Justice and Equality Fund which will aim to resource a network of support and advocacy organisation projects across the UK.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Students will complete and be assessed on a academic poster which they will complete at the end of the project.

During the project implementation, blind and no blind teachers will share and communicate current learning and teaching methodologies through ISICANA's website, which would allow for communication and feedback from other teachers and the academic community.

At the end of the project participants produced an academic journal article which was published as the first volume of Teachers as Practitioner Research Journal.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

The project, Changing the Subject: The New Urban High School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curproject, Changing the Subject: The New Urban High School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curProject, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricula.

The chosen organisation will run and evaluate a trial of projects from January 2019 which will help all schools to support their most able, disadvantaged pupils and address the drop off in academic performance between key stage 2 and key stage 4.

The project is a pioneering collaboration by industry, academics and teachers, which aims to catalyse the development of evidence - based EdTech products and services.

Principal Cheryl Hibbeln only wants staff who are committed to the career academy model, which bridges academics and technical job skills through hands - on, project - based learning that allows students to practice what they're learning in a real workplace.

New Project Hopes to Learn Which Pre-K Experiences Lead to Later School Success (Education Dive) Professor Nonie Lesaux and colleagues are seeing success with the Early Learning Study which is designed to identify indicators for long - term academic and social achievement rooted in Pre-K experieWhich Pre-K Experiences Lead to Later School Success (Education Dive) Professor Nonie Lesaux and colleagues are seeing success with the Early Learning Study which is designed to identify indicators for long - term academic and social achievement rooted in Pre-K experiewhich is designed to identify indicators for long - term academic and social achievement rooted in Pre-K experiences.

In the training area we also have other projects such as INAV, which is the first online secondary education center for adults, with an integrated training program which allows to take the second cycle of secondary education in a single academic year and it is designed for the adult population.

In their portfolios, Salvin says, «teachers must have evidence of their students satisfying our critical academic skills, which are the performance standards of project - based learning at the school and the schoolwide initiatives.»

The Fund, which focuses on supporting disadvantaged pupils, will offer approximately five grants of up to # 150,000 for projects working over two academic years.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

While Summit students spend most of their time working on projects, 20 percent of the day is devoted to Personalized Learning Time (PLT), during which students learn academic content, choosing the digital tools they'll use to meet their goals.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Therefore, this project seeks to examine persuasive academic writing skills in English - as - foreign - language (EFL) students attending courses at Education First (EF), a major company in foreign language education, which incorporates features of CLT to its pedagogical approach.

This is why the EDUCATE project, of which Rose Luckin is the director, aims to bring together entrepreneurs and innovators, with academics, researchers and educators, to deliver world - class EdTech products and services.

One researcher is piloting a project in which students and staff create, implement, and enforce academic integrity policies to help reduce cheating.

The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achievement.

The high school of the future, I'll bet, will replace the one - teacher - for - one - class model with variations of the following: curricula that are highly experiential, team - taught, cross-disciplinary, project - and competency - based, computer - assisted, and which integrate training in emotional intelligence, thinking styles and career development with academics.

The Latino Academic Transfer and Institutional Degree Opportunities project is examining the approaches taken by Hispanic - Serving Institutions in California to improve the rates at which they transfer to universities and complete college.

The highest student reports of engagement, flexible pacing, and choice came from a site in which respondents were focused on yearlong, self - directed projects that applied academic content to real - world contexts.

The 2014 - 15 academic year is projected to be the first in which African - American, Asian, Latino, and Native American students together will outnumber non - Hispanic whites in K - 12 public schools.

Within each cluster are several career - specific laboratories in which students complete industry - based projects and receive academic credit for advanced English, science, social science, and technology.

Zadeh said the current project, which involves a group of about 20 Team members, looks for issues beyond reaching academic readiness benchmarks.