Hot Seats is a series in which
academics report from the UK's most interesting marginal constituencies.
Hot Seats is a series in which
academics report from the UK's marginal constituencies.
Welcome to Hot Seats, a series in which local
academics report from the UK's marginal constituencies.
«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.
While the latest
academic reports from the LA Unified school district were positive overall, school board President Steve Zimmer expressed frustration at some of the data presented at Tuesday's board meeting and said he foresees potential problems ahead.
The research included four
academic reports from the United Kingdom and the United States about the possibility of errors in fingerprint identification.
Not exact matches
Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel
reports, the new
report «found clear evidence that
academic counselors
from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»
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.
The annual
report said 50 cases of sexual assault had been
reported at the elite US Army academy during the 2016 - 2017
academic year, nearly double the number
from the previous school year.
The
Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2018 ranks 946 public and independent elementary schools based on 10
academic indicators derived
from the provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results.
Aleksandr Kogan, the
academic who allegedly collected private information
from up to 87 million Facebook accounts and then gave the cache to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, also bought access to Twitter data, according to a Sunday
report from Bloomberg.
The
Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools 2018 ranks 819 public, separate, francophone, independent and charter schools based on seven
academic indicators derived
from provincewide test results.
By now you'll no doubt see the obvious correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have
reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take
from them are not to be found in
academic institutions.
It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts,
from the private, non-profit and
academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010
report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.
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.
In the Youth Indicators, 2005
report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams,
academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.
A new
report was released today
from the Globe & Mail that outlines the
academic impact that full day kindergarten has on our Grade 1s.
Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal
reports from schools which have seen an improvement in
academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.
In addition, some studies have
reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in
academic performance between kids
from authoritarian and authoritative homes.
To address the issues above, this paper
reports on the results of an 18 - year longitudinal study of the relationships between infant feeding practices and later cognitive ability and
academic achievement in a birth cohort of > 1000 New Zealand children studied
from birth to age 18 years.
-LSB-...] principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal
reports from schools which have seen an improvement in
academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary -LSB-...]
The service focuses on
academic essays,
reports, reviews, theses, dissertations, etc. so you have a lot to choose
from.
It then relied on evidence
from voluntary and statutory agencies, prison governors, former prisoners, HM Inspector of Prisons, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, child psychologists and
academics to put together today's
report.
I remember that
from some of the letters received by The Spectator in response to my article it was clear that the letter - writers simply did not believe what I wrote about British atrocities in India, even though I was
reporting the findings of non-partisan
academics.
Cuomo also will have input
from a panel of his creation: The 15 - member Common Core Task Force, asked to conduct a sweeping review of the
academic standards, curriculum and exams, is due to
report its recommendations this month.
This was contained in the final
report of the NIB on the state of schools in the country
from 2013 to the beginning of the 2014/2015
academic year, which was disclosed at a dissemination meeting in Koforidua...
Reports from that infamous visit resulted to the termination of employment of about 6 of Uni Lag's senior
academic staff members.
«We welcome the final
report from Sir John Tooke, particularly its emphasis on promoting excellence and the importance of supporting
academic careers.
The
report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence
from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of
academic and policy experts.
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.
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:
Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a
report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the
Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language inst
Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate
from high school and the
academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language inst
academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.
Reports from the region indicate that as many as 30 school girls in the Daffiama - Bussie - Issa District have been impregnated within the 2013/2014
academic year.
The
report drew criticism
from two University at Buffalo
academics, Lower West Side residents and the Clean Air Coalition.
► How intellectual property (IP) ownership is awarded to
academics can have a significant effect on their commercialization efforts, according to a paper
from the National Bureau of Economic Research that Mervis
reported on (subscription required), also in this week's issue.
In most cases, the
report explains, the attackers aim to silence or punish scholars and deter other
academics from behaving in ways the attackers deem improper.
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.»
Clauset and co-authors
reported on the conclusions they drew
from «complete and hand - curated data on the placements of nearly 19,000 tenure - track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school - level
academic units, in the disciplines of computer science, business, and history -LSB-, which]... represent highly distinct scholastic traditions.»
In a CGS survey, which produced answers
from 857 deans, directors, and chairs representing 226 institutions, 62 % of respondents «indicated that their institutions and / or graduate programs offer some type of formal professional development program for graduate students in research degree programs to obtain skills beyond core
academic research skills,» the
report states.
One remains: whether Mann was involved in «any actions that seriously deviated
from accepted practices within the
academic community for proposing, conducting, or
reporting research or other scholarly activities.»
The
report examines scientific publication trends in the top 200 U.S.
academic research and development institutions
from 1988 to 2001.
This series, NL Job Market News will draw on a wealth of sources, including facts, figures and findings
from the latest Arbeidsmarktmonitor, an annual
report on the job market situation of Dutch
academics.
The Federal Register notice, which has been expected for months, follows a Senate investigation that since last summer has identified several prominent
academic psychiatrists who apparently failed to
report to their institutions hundreds of thousands of dollars that they earned
from drug companies.
According to the
report, the average graduate tuition fee in 2001/2002 is $ 4360, a 9.8 % increase
from the previous
academic year.
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.
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.
One panel member, YoungSuk Chi, vice-chairman and managing director of global
academic and customer relations for Amsterdam - based Elsevier, dissented
from the
report, saying that it supports «an overly expansive role of government and advocates approaches to the business of scholarly publishing that I believe are overly prescriptive.»