Sentences with phrase «access education around»

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As founder and CEO of the Malala Fund, this poised 24 - year - old is determined to build a lasting organization that helps women around the world get access to education.

«Technology now gives us the means to extend the reach of high quality education around the world and to provide millions of people with access to learning and opportunities for advancement,» Levin, who also serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, said in a statement.

The 12 - week online class is an exciting opportunity for financial services, insurance, or banking professionals as well as entrepreneurs around the world who want to access the world - class education associated...

We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to quality education so that children and adolescents around the globe have improved opportunities for success.

The thing is, we know how to turn these numbers around: better education, access to contraception, and improved and affordable prenatal and infant care.

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

The focus of the public debate around the 2011 education white paper was on fees and access: if we are to use the market discourse then it was about the demand side of the brave new education market.

It proposes providing free further and higher education for those who have served six years and protecting access to schools for families posted around the country.

«Here's What College Education Costs Students Around The World», Business Insider, June 8, 2012, Accessed Jan. 20, 2017

She currently implements a landmark science cooperation agreement between AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences, develops the Center's global science diplomacy education and capacity building initiatives, leads a research project analyzing science - policy connections around the world, and serves as an associate editor of the open - access policy journal Science & Diplomacy.

A rapid voluntary reduction in fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning, higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population at around eight billion by 2050.

The group, «Service to the Scientific Community,» aims to raise the scientific community's awareness of human rights issues and to enhance the well being of people around the world through access to science (e.g., science education, science - based products, technology, processes), in accordance with Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

As part of the U.S. government's commitment to Let Girls Learn, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world.

Australian Education Union Federal President Correna Haythorpe said it's important for teachers to have access to broad curriculum expertise, which is very important for a child's development as a whole, but you can't implement provisions around having specialist teachers in place without looking at the resources that will need to be in place to support that.

Also, the fact that many people around the world still live in extreme poverty and with no access to basic needs — such as transportation, sanitation, health, education — just aggravates people's sense of political misrepresentation towards official institutions.

While Turkish women have greater access to education than many women around the world, Gombas believes there is still plenty of room for reform.

These programs are proving the impact of high school education on community development, but they will only be truly successful if they are seen as a stepping stone to universal access to free high school all around the world.

There were also several barriers — and subsequent workarounds — identified around technology and infrastructure: grappling with a slow and unwieldy public contract code for technology and even furniture procurement; allowing for Bring Your Own Device programs given the state's free public education clause; and struggling to provide sufficient technology access at school and home for all students if the district wanted to adopt digital materials.

We are united, however, around the central value of assuring that every one of our city's children has access to a free quality public education.»

In his research, the academic found that having someone around to play a «grandmother role» — chatting and offering simple words of encouragement rather than instruction — helped boost student learning and level the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited or no access to education.

Despite remaining questions around Shaw's affirmative action research, for now, he has shifted his dissertation's focus to undocumented immigrants — mainly of Mexican descent — and their right and ability to access higher education institutions.

According to the Washington Post, education leaders from around the country — including more than 100 college and university presidents — are expected to attend the summit to discuss issues of college access and share ideas on how to increase opportunities for low - income students.

There the Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR), often teamed up with the Justice Department, has gone wild in pushing schools and districts around, via both formal regulations and menacing «dear colleague» letters, in far - flung realms from student discipline to bathroom access.

While working on a project about the Ghana revolution, it caught her attention that girls her age around the world had great disparities accessing education, particularly in African countries.

It has been created ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April, where leaders, business, civil society and young people from around the world will gather in London to focus on a common future and helping ensure every young person can access a world - class education.

«He will be a tremendous asset to our students — especially those studying international education and education policy — and his expertise will be invaluable to the school as we define and execute a strategy to help ensure that children around the globe have access to meaningful education.»

For example, because of article 23, which defines the universal right to education, most children around the world who did not have the opportunity to enroll in a school prior to 1948 gained such access as UNESCO mobilized governments and international institutions to support the most dramatic educational expansion in the history of humanity.

In addition, the fellows will have access to the unique network of more than 60 school agencies around the country with whom the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard currently works.

During June and July next year, nasen, in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), will deliver a string of Implementation Events around the country where education practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme nexEducation (DfE), will deliver a string of Implementation Events around the country where education practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme nexeducation practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme nexeducation providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme next summer.

The event is giving pupils the opportunity to learn about the issues faced by many children around the world trying to access an education while living in zones affected by conflict, natural disasters or extreme poverty, and who lack the basic tools and teachers they need to learn.

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

I want to focus on the qualities that define a Maker Education / Experience, rather than the tools, to address any issues around access and equity that might arise for groups, regardless of financial and material resources.

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education - related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness, recognition of diversity, and educational access for all.

She has studied how college access and outreach programs affect low income students» social capital and social contexts of choice, and is currently working on philosophical / empirical research into the moral tensions around movements to opt out of different aspects of public education, and on philosophical work on what makes a disagreement «reasonable.»

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Access education and training activities, network with members around the world, join development projects and more.

I bounced around for a while before landing at the Utah System of Higher Education, where I cut my teeth in state government, college access, and program management before transferring to state government in Arizona, and then into the non-profit world.

The pilot gave the SCDE an opportunity to gauge the need for and response to the program around the state, as well as the SCDE's strength in supporting other initiatives — such as high school redesign and adult education — and in meeting legislative mandates to give all students access to high - quality instruction.

The plan, required by the United States Department of Education (USED), will suggest district's use evidence - based strategies ensure students have equal access to effective teachers instead of just moving teachers around

Curriki English Language Arts To help equalize access to education globally, Curriki makes world - class learning materials freely available to educators, students, and parents around the world by providing free and open resources to everyone.

Mrs Obama received a warm reception compared to that of rock stars when around 800 screaming girls welcomed her into the school for pupils aged 11 to 18 as she made her way to give an emotional speech on girls aspirations and access to education.

In person and via livecast, the event gathered more than 80 education and community leaders, and experts in law and education research around the critical question of how we can improve secondary education quality and access for English learners.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Access to CO ASCD's Blog and Point / Counterpoint Columns from Leading Educators in the Field: CO ASCD's Blog and Point / Counterpoint columns include multiple viewpoints in education from ASCD Headquarters, CO ASCD members and partners, as well as leading educators from around the world.

LaFonda Willis, former administrator for D.C. Public Schools and education chair for the NAACP D.C. chapter, agreed that the conversation shouldn't have been centered around traditional versus charter but rather how can district and charter schools collaborate «to ensure Black children have access to high - quality education and that we're helping them to achieve achieve self - sufficiency and reach their full potential.»

We're not trying to sit around and just think deep thoughts about building safer neighborhoods, securing affordable housing and ensuring every kid has access to the high quality education they deserve while wishing it would all just go away — there are plenty of folks who have done all that.

In response to a question from Representative Katherine Clark whether an Indiana voucher school that denies access to students with LGBT parents would be disqualified from receiving education funds, DeVos answered, «For states who have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that.»