Sentences with phrase «cent of its students coming»

A Presbyterian seminary, for example, may have 30 to 50 per cent of its students coming from non-Presbyterian churches.

Interestingly, 66 per cent of students come from outside the school zone, a fact that staff ascribe to the large number of students whose primary carers are grandparents who live within the zone.

Not exact matches

Last year, the Primary Industries Education Foundation (PIEF) asked primary school students where they thought a variety of farm products came from; 75 per cent of the surveyed Year Six students thought cotton socks came from animals, and 27 per cent thought yoghurt was a plant product.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

Current figures show that 80 per cent of all medical students in the UK come from just 20 per cent of schools, and of the 11, 125 students who entered medicine and dentistry in 2011, just 4.1 per cent were from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

In fact, this research, which tested middle school, high school and college level students, found that 80 per cent of participants thought that sponsored articles were actual articles, and had a hard time distinguishing where this information actually came from.

Figures show that 80 per cent of UK medical students come from just 20 per cent of the country's schools.

CPAHS has an enrolment of 1100 students from Years 7 - 12, with approximately 35 per cent coming from a language background other than English across 56 language groups.

Oxford University's admissions data for 2016 shows that 58 per cent of students who received a place came from a state school - the highest figure on record.

Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.

When it comes to civics and citizenship education, they found the three aims principals considered to be most important were: promoting students» critical and independent thinking (64 per cent); promoting students» knowledge of citizens» rights and responsibilities (61 per cent); and, developing students» skills and competencies in conflict resolution (44 per cent).

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

2009 saw record numbers of university leavers and new figures show more than 660,000 people have applied for a university place for the next academic year. This staggering amount is up by 12 per cent from last year, once again breaking the record for the number of university applicants. With these figures on the rise, the coalition government have made an extra 10,000 university places to support the hefty amount of applications, meaning more students than ever will be graduating with degrees in the coming years. It is becoming even harder for employers to recruit graduates when they simply can not distinguish who is more qualified for the job â $ «how does one chose between the graduate with the 2:1 History degree from Durham or the 2:1 English Literature graduate from Bristol?

Figures show that 58 per cent of employers rated work experience as «the most popular qualification among those presented» — with a student's personality coming second, with 48 per cent favouring this.