Sentences with phrase «at the times higher education»

It is also one of the most popular universities in the UK among graduate employers and the winner of «Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers» at the Times Higher Education Awards 2015.

Jackie Trench, graduate recruitment manager at solicitors» firm Clifford Chance LLP, explains how her firm uses university rankings: «We tend to look at the Times Higher Education UK University Rankings for comparative reasons — so we can notice trends for that university overall and also by subject — for law and for other traditional subjects that lend themselves to a career in law, such as history.»

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As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

«At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can't afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan,» said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles» director of government affairs.

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at InteAt the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Inteat Intel.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

That realization led to his restarting an apprenticeship program, which he pitches as an alternative to college — especially at a time when the cost of higher education looks increasingly to be a bad deal.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

80 per cent of new jobs in British Columbia will require some post-secondary education and under the B.C. Liberals, the province's apprenticeship program is a mess and tuition and debt for college and university students are at an all - time high.

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

Insofar as that support includes advocacy in Washington, D.C. for institutions of Christian higher education, we believe our association with the CCCU significantly weakens our collective voice for our distinctive mission, at a time when we are under increasing scrutiny.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

In July of 2009, Sonny Lemmons chose to put his 13 - year career in Higher Education Administration on hold to become a full - time stay - at - home dad - despite the fact that he had never changed a diaper before his son was born.

The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals of reason, qualitative judgment, and ethical concern.

A confluence is occurring in Christian higher education in the U.S., with new leaders at strategic urban institution, just in time for new opportunities to be pursued.

Free Speech Ranking Find Restrictions at 80 per cent of Universities Chris Havergal, The Times Higher Education

Sports scholarships are one of the ways students who excel in sports can continue to participate and finance higher education at the same time.

The competencies needed for a successful, purposeful, and joyful life in the 21st century are best cultivated through an education that fully meets and engages the developmental needs of children, which are fundamentally different in early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school — in other words, «the right thing at the right time.»

Pope's book is a kind of manual for how to reconfigure secondary education at a time when many schools are looking for ways to dial back the intensity of high school life.

At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theAt the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theat Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.

Zach works full - time in the Extramural Research Department at the American Cancer Society and teaches high school life sciences part - time in a hybrid education program he co-founded in 2013.

For the first time, researchers in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University have provided the strongest evidence to date that grade retention in the elementary grades hurts students» chances of graduating high school.

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine editor, will address the issues of poverty, education and the achievement gap, during a special presentation, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Springfield High School.

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

Word is out, thanks to a Harvard study cited by the New York Times, that daughters of working moms will statistically achieve higher education, are more likely to work [outside of the home], and will make more money than daughters of stay - at - home moms.

Mothers who breast feed tend to be older, have a better education, and a higher socioeconomic status, than mothers who breast feed their children for a limited time or not at all.3 15 In some studies the association between breast feeding and cognitive development is not statistically significant after adjustment for such confounders.16 - 20

In this study of a population of relatively high socioeconomic status, we found a positive association between duration of breast feeding and mental development, even after adjusting for maternal age, maternal education, maternal intelligence (Raven score), and smoking at the time of conception.

At the same time, that shrinking, aging population, facing higher tax rates and lower property values, must pay for all the needed services — police, fire, health, education, road maintenance — both in the hollowed out city and the inefficiently sprawled out countryside.

Students are embarrassed because they know that they are listening to and spouting a bundle of scaremongering lies, spin and propaganda about what is, in fact, a funding proposal that makes higher education free at the point of entry and easier to afford than at any time since Labour introduced tuition fees.

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At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

Formerly Managing Director, Communications and Public Reporting at the Audit Commission and founding editor of Guardian Public, he was also a leader writer and specialist correspondent for The Times and the Independent, and began his career in journalism on The Times Higher Education Supplement.

President Akufo - Addo noted that if the programme had not taken off, over one million youth who qualify for senior high school would still have been at home because of their inability to afford senior high school education in five years time, explaining that for the past five years an average of 100,000 qualified pupils could not enter into senior high schools for financial problems.

«This idea of having a museum — and it was his vision, at that time, that it be a contemporary - art venue — as part of public education at a higher institution is really a pretty amazing and significant contribution, and has been a lasting contribution to this campus, certainly,» said Corinna Ripps Schaming, curator and interim director.

«The facts are that education funding is at an all - time high, (we) have increased 32 percent during this administration and per - pupil spending is 87 percent above the national average,» he added.

(«The overwhelming sentiment in my district is that we should not use taxpayer resources to fund higher education for undocumented immigrants at a time when our state's universities and community colleges are already woefully underfunded,» O'Brien explained in a statement after the vote.)

The decision comes at a time when affordability has become an increasingly urgent issue in higher education, for both private and public institutions.

At a time when thousands of teachers in New York have foregone raises simply to keep their jobs, and while the state is poised to cut an additional $ 1 billion or more in education funding, NYSUT is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in cash and investments and spending lavishly on six - figure employee salaries and conferences at high - end resortAt a time when thousands of teachers in New York have foregone raises simply to keep their jobs, and while the state is poised to cut an additional $ 1 billion or more in education funding, NYSUT is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in cash and investments and spending lavishly on six - figure employee salaries and conferences at high - end resortat high - end resorts.

Mr Williams was appointed to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in 2005 before becoming the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales, and at varying times has been spokesman on schools and higher education.

(1) Individual: Contest participant must be an individual at least 18 years old who, at the time of entry, is enrolled full - or part - time at an accredited, degree - granting institution of higher education seeking an undergraduate (two or four - year) or graduate degree.

(2) Team: A group of no more than five (5) individuals who are all at least 18 years old, and, at the time of entry, are all enrolled full - or part - time at an accredited, degree - granting institution of higher education seeking an undergraduate (two - or four - year) or graduate degree.

The Paris march is taking its time, stopping at various research and higher education landmarks for speeches along the way.

Tom Barlow spent his placement at the Financial Times, while Susan Eley did a spell on the Times Higher Education Supplement.

At about the same time, the Dearing Inquiry Into Higher Education recommended that «those leaving higher education need to understand how to learn and how to manage their own learning, recognising the process continues throughout life.&Higher Education recommended that «those leaving higher education need to understand how to learn and how to manage their own learning, recognising the process continues throughout lifEducation recommended that «those leaving higher education need to understand how to learn and how to manage their own learning, recognising the process continues throughout life.&higher education need to understand how to learn and how to manage their own learning, recognising the process continues throughout lifeducation need to understand how to learn and how to manage their own learning, recognising the process continues throughout life.»

The experience of African - American men is not uniform, though: The earnings gap between black men with a college education and those with less education is at an all - time high, the authors say.

Only 36 percent of young adults on the autism spectrum attended postsecondary education, including 2 - year and 4 - year colleges, at some time between high school and their early 20s.