Sentences with phrase «academic year supporting»

Tommy Lloyd, a Year 6 pupil at Henry Hinde Junior School, suffers from Muscular Dystrophy and the school have spent this academic year supporting Muscular Dystrophy UK.

«More than one million international students attending U.S. colleges and universities during the 2015 - 2016 academic year supported 400,000 U.S. jobs and contributed $ 32.8 billion to the U.S. economy,» the letter said, citing data from NAFSA: Association of International Educators, a letter signatory.

And, in New York, two new tech - focused schools launched this academic year supported by big business and local venture capitalists.

Not exact matches

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

The report then claims that a survey of the academic literature supports a finding that savers lose about 1 % per year due to conflicted payments.

Every year an interdisciplinary jury, featuring some of the world's most influential chefs, academics and experts, chooses the candidate who best embodies the mission of this unique global award created by the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) with the support of the Basque Government as part of the Euskadi - Basque Country Strategy.

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.

For over 70 years, our School has emphasized rigorous core academic subjects, world languages, the arts, and athletics, while supporting the healthy intellectual, social, and emotional growth of our students.

The GSE has committed to raising $ 1 million a year to support the partnership, which is considered a model for translating academic scholarship on education into practice.

Where the agreed support costs for a part - time high needs student in that academic year are # 6,000 or less, then the institution should not record the learner as a high needs student on the ILR so as not to affect lagged funding in later years.

Where the agreed support costs for a part - time high needs student in that academic year are # 6,000 or less, the institution should not record the learner as a high needs student on the ILR.

In order to avoid any disruption to support for the young person, 19 - 25 year olds will continue to be eligible for EFA funding, where the young person had an LDA last year and is expected to receive an EHC plan from their local authority by the end of the 2016 to 2017 academic year.

Post-16 students whose additional support funding totals more than # 6,000 (if provided over the full academic year), are also classed as high needs students.

She also earned a certificate as Extra Lesson provider and therapeutic educator from Gradalis Seminars, where she attended four - year anthroposophical therapeutic / remedial training in Extra Lesson and supplementary therapies and academic support strategies.

Although the concept of cognitive rest has been utilized by the Sports Medicine staff at Lehigh University for years, it was not until the recently a formal academic support protocol was adopted at the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania campus.

In the 2013/14 academic year, 200 science resource centres were equipped with 2,794 items ranging from science and laboratory equipment, electronic equipment, technical support, ICT and audio visual items.

On Saturday night, Robert Ford, who co-authored a recent academic analysis of Ukip support with Matthew Goodwin, Revolt on the Right, said the findings raised new questions about next year's general election, and suggest Ukip could be even more of a threat in subsequent ones.

Continuing students of Senior High and Tertiary institutions in the Nabdam District in the Upper East Region have received financial support from the Member of Parliament for the area, Dr. Mark Nawaane to enable them to return to school for the 2017/2018 academic year.

The Renewal initiative, with its added social services and academic supports, will be fully implemented this fall, meaning the program's deadline for turning around schools will roughly coincide with the the end of the three - year extension proposal.

With the school year beginning, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System reminds you that one of the simplest ways to support a child's academic success is by using your local library.

As of the 2017 rate year, academic FTEs exclude administrative / support staff.

The Fellowship award provides partial tuition support, an annual stipend for living expenses, and a research allowance for full - time graduate study and thesis / dissertation research at a U.S. academic institution for up to three years.

The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation was another source of support for Berkland: The foundation awarded him a 2 - year Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering, which is offered to academic research with commercial potential.

Indeed, in 1945, presidential science adviser Vannevar Bush wrote in «Science, The Endless Frontier» — the report that outlined the organizational structure that still governs federally supported academic research — that the first of five «fundamental» principles must be «stability of funds over a period of years,» a goal that Congress has never met.

Last year, he was awarded the prestigious, # 50,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize, an award that aims to support young British academics whose work has received international recognition.

As the program's academic director, chemistry professor Iona Black encourages STARS students to participate in a program - supported internship as early as the summer after their first year.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

The maximum obtainable amount of support is $ 36,000 per academic year.

People will enter knowing, Freeman proposes, that when their support ends in a few years, the also - rans must leave academic research and move on to other types of work, preferably using their scientific knowledge, in industry, government, patent law, science policy, high - school or community college teaching or other fields.

All courses last 1 academic year, and financial support may be available if you are applying as a mature student (anyone over the age of 24) and you have not had funding for a postgraduate course from the government already.

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.

The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) are large grants (from about $ 4 million to $ 23 million a year) for training programs, regulatory staff, and other support for bench - to - bedside research at academic medical centers.

Open to Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents with at least three distinctions in relevant «A» level subjects, successful candidates will be supported in their academic pursuits for up to 8 years, leading to a Ph.D. degree.

To search for medicines, to boost science, to preserve nature, to strengthen industrial competition, to strengthen academic educational programs, to improve health care, to correct misuse, and to support positive interactions with indigenous populations: These have been the goals of the Brazilian autochthonic medicine programs for the past 20 years.

We at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many postdocs these days) equals 12 years.

Academic research supports them as a way to increase physical activity at work Thinking abilities only drop slightly when using one, but not below average performance marks Sitting at a desk all day could be shaving years off your life A neuroscience professor at a research institution is getting one after studying them

Alving told ScienceInsider that she's leaving now because she has completed her «major goals,» including establishing the Clinical and Translational Science Awards — large support grants set up 5 years ago to support bench - to - bedside research at major academic medical centers.

Rosemarie Pangborn Sensory Science Scholarship: One $ 15,000 Sensory Science Scholarship will be awarded for the 2018 - 2019 academic year to support a Ph.D. student who intends to teach and conduct research in the area of sensory science at the University level.

This includes David Phillips fellowships, which offer five years» support for independent research with the aim of securing a permanent academic position at the end.

Together, Bruce and Cindy are tireless advocates for Lifespan and we owe them a great debt for their years of selfless service, dedication, unflagging energy and philanthropic support, which has helped make Rhode Island Hospital the premier academic medical center it is today.

«It's time for U.S. policy - makers to reflect and decide whether the year - to - year uncertainty in National Institutes of Health budget and the proposed cuts are in our societal and national best interest,» says Bishr Omary, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the new data - supported opinion piece and chief scientific officer of Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center.

During the cohort's two - year term, the WEF offers support through its academic and expert networks as well as engagement opportunities with its projects and initiatives.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

A few years ago, over 500 eminent academics signed a petition supporting the statement, among them three Nobel laureates.

New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York City public school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early elementary years.

We will have an education system that differentiates between students and finds every child where he or she is in the early years, then gives her the understanding, guidance, increasing academic challenge, and support necessary to traverse each level of our education system successfully, ultimately emerging — after some years of post secondary education — ready for success in a job and in our economy, as a citizen, the head of a family, and a lifelong learner.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

This follows IFS research which found that support for a one - year breakfast programme in disadvantaged schools delivered similar academic benefits to universal free school meal provision (though the gains were higher in Year 2 than Yearyear breakfast programme in disadvantaged schools delivered similar academic benefits to universal free school meal provision (though the gains were higher in Year 2 than YearYear 2 than YearYear 6).

Benefits include financial support — such as tuition assistance, monthly stipends, and teaching materials and leadership grants; extensive summer and academic year professional development; and regular meetings and online discussions that provide each fellow with a strong support network.

The program, which includes a live faculty member supporting participants throughout the experience, will be offered twice in the 2015 — 16 academic year, once beginning September 21, 2015, and again beginning...