Sentences with phrase «cent higher results»

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

Not exact matches

First - quarter results saw earnings decline 7 percent to 83 cents per share, 7 cents higher than the Estimize consensus data.

RBC's capital markets division saw a 13 per cent jump year - on - year in net income to $ 748 million, primarily due to a lower effective tax rate largely due to U.S. tax changes and higher results in corporate and investment banking and global markets.

News of the result pleased the market however, pushing the stock 26 cents higher to $ 25.06, although still short of the 12 - month high of $ 25.20.

Budgetary revenues as a share of GDP are projected to decline from 14.8 per cent in 2015 - 16 to 14.4 per cent in 2025 - 26, as higher personal income taxes, resulting from the progressivity of the tax system, are more than offset by stability or declines in the other taxes.

More than all of improvement in the current fiscal results of $ 2.9 billion is due to higher revenues (up $ 3.0 billion or 3.7 per cent).

Stratasys held fast on its full - year revenue guidance, which ranges from $ 750 million to $ 770 million, and reduced its EPS guidance by four cents to account for higher costs as a result of an acquisition, from a $ 2.25 to $ 2.35 range to a $ 2.21 to $ 2.31 range.

The OECD further suggests that a halving of trade barriers across the G20 would result in a 0.3 - to 3.3 - per - cent boost in jobs for low - skilled workers (the impact varies by country) and a 0.9 - to 3.9 - per - cent expansion in higher - skilled employment opportunities.

With nitrate levels 30 per cent higher than Canada Drinking Water Quality guidelines, it's no wonder why the Environment Minister is hiding the test results.

As a result, Australia's terms of trade has increased by 6.4 per cent over the past year, to its highest level in over 27 years (Graph 50).

(One analysis said the cost of a can of Campbell's soup may go up less than one cent as a result of Trump's higher tariff on steel.)

Even while sales were down from the previous year, the total dollar volume of sales reached a new high of $ 8.972 billion, which resulted in a 14.4 per cent increase in all - property average sale price for the year.

«The combination of more home flips and a greater share of financing for flip purchases resulted in an 18 per cent jump in the estimated dollar volume of financing for home flip purchases, up to $ 12.2 billion for the flips completed in 2016 — a nine - year high.»

Hence, as a result first of large depreciations of a number of Asian currencies during the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998, and then their more recent decline with the US dollar, the Australian dollar is now some 60 per cent higher than its post-float average against a group of Asian currencies (Graph 23).

The result has been a 5 per cent increase in Australia's terms of trade over the year to the September quarter, to its highest level in over 25 years (Graph 50).

The result has been an increase in Australia's terms of trade, including a 2 per cent rise over the first half of 2003, to its highest level since the late 1980s (Graph 50).

In an update ahead of its interim results in August, the general insurer said that «significantly higher than expected claims activity» during the first five months of the year is expected to cause that division to report a first half combined operating ratio, a key measure of profitability, of around 110 per cent.

Despite the warning, shares in Atlas closed up 33 per cent at 1.6 cents, with analysts pointing to an improved earnings result for the December half and a higher spot iron ore price.

Treasury shares finished at $ 10.53, down slightly on Friday, after a big share price surge of 11 per cent on a buoyant set of results announced on August 18 as investors crunched their numbers on the $ 800 million inventory of luxury wines that will be steadily rolled out for sale over the next few years in the $ 20 a bottle and higher price point.

However, the result was not a true reflection of the company's performance as it actually had a very strong year with cotton crop yields as high as 15 bales per hectare — well above the top 20 per cent of Australian growers.

As a result, the number of products or stock keeping units has exploded since 2005, from 250 to 1800, according to broker CIMB, and its prices in store are roughly 50 per cent higher than those of Pepsi / Schweppes, a major obstacle in the youth market.

He says, «Results like RMIT University's study that showed you can reduce pesticide exposure by 90 % by switching to an organic diet and a recent study by UK's Newcastle University showing that organic crops can be up to 70 per cent higher in certain antioxidants are building scientific evidence that many organic consumers already take for granted.»

Earlier this month Ms Watkins warned that CCA's June - half earnings were expected to fall 15 per cent because the bottler had been unable to recover higher costs in Australia as a result of aggressive pricing in supermarkets and weaker sales in the higher - margin route trade.

Sugar future prices are up almost 40 per cent this year, and the price for the commodity is at a 4 1/2 - year high; the result of a drop in production in Asia as drought has hit harvests.

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

Mr Amissah - Arthur, who is an economist, claimed using the current GPD, the amount would translate into 20 per cent of fiscal deficit, indicating that will result in high inflation, major exchange rate instability and create many problems for Ghana.

Declaring the result of the rerun, the Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Esimone, said Umeh scored the highest number of votes cast with 64, 878 (95.6 per cent of the votes cast) and was therefore returned elected.

According to the World Health Organization, older adults who live at home face disproportionally high fatality rates during natural disasters as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina where 71 per cent of the deaths resulting from that disaster involved people over 60 years of age.

«Assuming fewer than 10 per cent of Americans drive while high on April 20, our results suggest that drug use at 4/20 celebrations more than doubles the risk of a fatal crash,» said Redelmeier.

Results from bowel cancer - prone mice given the smaller dose showed a 50 per cent reduction in tumour size while the high dose showed a 25 per cent reduction.

So if the occultation results hold up, then the density of Eris must be higher, 2.5 g / cm3 or more, and its albedo (reflectivity) at least 90 per cent.

Results demonstrated that for preterm babies born at less than 33 weeks gestation, the odds of dying in hospital were 32 per cent less if they were admitted to high volume units at the hospital of birth than if they were admitted to low volume units (odds ratio 0.68).

More than 11,000 deaths occurred as a result of that outbreak, with a high mortality rate of the disease estimated at around 60 per cent.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Figures show 55 per cent of pupils in mixed schools achieved five good GCSEs including English and maths, while single - sex schools maintained a higher proportion with 75 per cent of pupils getting the same results.

[This year's] results show that entries in the rigorous religious studies GCSE are at the highest since 2002 and entries at A level are up 20 per cent since 2010.

Maths Pathway has documented high results in its 2016 Impact Report, which found that Year 7 students grew an average of 218 per cent faster than they were before they started using the program.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

«It's interesting, because Silverton Primary School sits in the bottom 10 per cent of the country socio - economically, and yet we perform in the top 5 per cent in the country, so the results are extremely high,» Tony said.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

UCAS looked at the predictions and results for 600,000 English 18 year old applicants between 2010 and 2015 with three or more A levels and found that the number missing their predicted grades by two or more grades was 34 per cent higher in 2015 compared to 2010.

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

GCSE results this summer showed 53 per cent of grades in English language, English literature and maths were a grade 5 or higher, with 71 per cent hitting a grade 4 or above.

As part of an international study collating results from surveys covering 3,328 primary and secondary teachers in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the US and Australia, the report shows that the 11 hours is considerably more than those in the US (nine per cent) and Australia (seven per cent) where the time spent on teaching is typically higher.

The research also found that: students who took a Silver CREST achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result compared to a statistically matched control group; students who undertake a CREST Silver Award are 21 per cent more likely to take a STEM AS Level.

However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.

The DfE said, «sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.»

Various companies produce estimates of a child's GCSE performance in a subject by looking at the past results of pupils with the exact same KS2 results, month of birth and gender in high performing schools (the top 20 per cent for value - added).

GCSE results data from 2015 shows that Chinese children were the highest - performing ethnic group, with 76.6 per cent achieving five A * to C grade GCSEs including English and maths.

Structurally, the Clarity is fairly conventional: You get a high - tensile steel monocoque structure, with a higher proportion of high - strength steel than most cars of its size, resulting (according to Honda) in a 15 per cent weight saving.