Sentences with phrase «cent of students at»

Only 27 per cent of Australian students attended schools with a lack of sufficiently powerful computers (although that figure increased to 51 per cent in the Northern Territory), compared with 55 per cent of students at schools for all ICILS countries and 85 per cent of Turkish students» schools.

Research from 2013 showed that 87 per cent of students at Honywood found learning easier because of their tablets, while 72 per cent felt that their work had improved as a result of using 1:1 mobile technology.

Not exact matches

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.

Bishop Sarah will be introduced to representatives from across the Diocese of London at St Paul's Cathedral on Monday morning, before meeting staff and students at the Urswick Secondary School in Hackney, where 70 per cent of pupils are eligible for Pupil Premium Funding.

There is a great difference, however, when (as at Union) the largest denominational student group (which happens to be Presbyterian) totals only 17 per cent of the student body.

Just at that point in the term when the academic pressures seem unbearable, around 20 per cent of the first - year medical students volunteer to plan the service.

As the Ontario study showed, by the time students reach Grade 11, only 25 per cent are getting at least eight hours of shuteye.

Based on Mathematica's prediction within this narrow price range, Food and Nutrition Services extrapolated its own formula in order to respond to the Senate committee's request for an estimate: For every cent the price of lunch increases, students who pay full price will drop out at a rate of.11 percent.

Other forms of support he said he gave to the constituency in the educational sector include the provision of 1,100 teachers» note 3 lesson notes books for schools, 10 packets of roofing sheets for schools, disbursement of Gh cents 10,000 as scholarship packages for students, construction of 4 classroom blocks in four communities (Bugri, Bugpiigu, Gagbiri Natinga and Kugur), roofing of a classroom block at Bulpielise and rehabilitation of a kindergarten block at Bugri Natinga.

Parents of first - year Senior High school students at the University Practice Senior High School (UPSS) in the Central Region are being charged between GH cents 700 and GH cents 500 for hostel facilities.

(BBC) and «Ministers have expressed «disappointment» at statistics showing fewer young people from poor backgrounds are going to university... The data for 2004/05 showed that while the total number of students from all groups rose, the proportion from poorer backgrounds fell from 28.6 to 28.2 per cent.»

Minimum - wage workers at Erie Community College — most of them students — will get a raise of 50 cents per hour beginning tomorrow and an additional $ 1 per hour raise beginning Dec. 1.

In total, the government is expected to spend at least GH cents 18 million monthly on the projected number of students, with GH cents 9.18 million of the amount going to the trainees in monthly allowances, while GH cents 8.82 million goes to the colleges for feeding and the payment of utilities.

The former International Students Hostel at the Airport City, which was initially allocated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was re-zoned for residential development by the government in 2007, and sold to functionaries and cronies of the NPP for GH cents 2O, OOO or GH cents 15,000 per plot.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

According to a recent survey by the Higher Education Academy, an organisation dedicated to improving the learning experience of students while at university, just 49 per cent of postgraduate students feel integrated into their department's community (see «Room for improvement»).

Over 70 per cent of teachers in all countries wrongly believe a student is either left - brained or right - brained, peaking at 91 per cent in the UK.

The results of the study, co-authored with Dr Lorenzo Neri from QMUL, show that a three percentage point increase (from a baseline of 26 per cent) in the number of students who perform above expectations at Key Stage 2 increases local house prices by 1.5 per cent.

Out of the 777 marketing students studied over a five - year period, 86.1 per cent waited until the last 24 hours to hand in their work at only a slight cost on average score against early submitters at 64.04 compared to 64.32.

To withstand the star's wrath, the planet must be at least 70 per cent iron, says Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/njr).

«By selecting only the very best preserved bone specimens and with various improvements in proteomic analysis, we were able to obtain roughly 90 per cent of the collagen sequence for both species,» said lead author Frido Welker, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of York.

WHY: A 2006 study at York St John University in the UK found that students could hold a 2.4 pound weight straight out in front of their bodies at shoulder height for up to 10 per cent longer when they listened to a workout playlist that had motivational pop or rock music for the entire torturous session.

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.

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.

International studies indicate that the top 10 per cent of our Year 8 students now perform at about the same level in mathematics as the top 50 per cent of students in Singapore, Korea and Chinese Taipei.

The Apprenticeships Survey shows that 83 per cent of student employers have apprenticeship programmes this year and they expect to hire at least 12,281 apprentices.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum: `... the proportion of higher - achieving students (placed in the top two NAPLAN bands) has dropped from 49.4 per cent in Year 3 to 20.6 per cent by Year 9.

The success of the pilot areas, which reached 20,000 children, has seen the number of students who cycle to school at least once a week double to 10 per cent.

«PIRLS 2016 shows that 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,» Dr Thomson said.

Figures from the ABA show that LGBT students with a disability and those with SEN are at an increased risk of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying, although the average of all LGBT students who face bullying it still relatively high, at 55 per cent.

In Korea and Shanghai - two of the top performers in the PISA 2012 digital reading and computer - based mathematics tests - 42 per cent and 38 per cent of students, respectively, reported using computers at school.

The OECD report highlighted that, while desktop computers remained the most common form of computers in schools in 2012, the share of students with access to mobile devices is increasing, with 43 per cent of students, on average, having access to laptops at school, and 11 per cent having access to tablets.

Over four - fifths (82 per cent) find a computer or tablet helpful when working with other students in a team, compared to 70 per cent at the start of the year.

The views of secondary students continued to be positive in post residential, with two thirds or more of respondents thinking that as a result of the residential they would make better progress in their subject (71 per cent), had a better understanding of the subject (70 per cent), they were better at problem solving (67 per cent) and would do better in their exams / tests (66 per cent).

«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 Australia four out of five students (80 per cent), performed at Level 2 or higher: 15 per cent achieved Level 4 proficiency; 34 per cent achieved Level 3; and 31 per cent of students were at Level 2.

What they found was, over four consecutive years, only 40 per cent of students were described as having what they call «productive student behaviours» — that's behaviours that help them with their learning and being at school — 20 per cent of students were consistently unproductive and then 40 per cent fluctuated.

On average across OECD countries, 28 per cent of students were able to solve only straightforward collaborative problems, if any at all (Level 1 and below Level 1).

We've got a significant bank of resources now for teaching kids at that Certificate I level, which that accounts for about 50 to 60 per cent of our student cohort.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

Warden describes a continuum with pure plastic environments at one end and something like the nature barnehages at the other - where students are in the forest 100 per cent of the time.

... And then, this year we looked at our NAPLAN data and found that 68 per cent of our Grade 5 students were medium to high level growth - so, our next target will be moving those students showing low growth and pushing everyone up towards high rates of growth.

At Warden's Auchlone Nature Kindergarten in Perthshire, central Scotland, students are outside 80 to 90 per cent of the time.

«Our research has found that almost half (42 per cent) of students keep their mobile devices next to their bed at night, so it's not surprising that technology can be such a barrier to proper sleep.

The survey of 2,750 pupils aged 11 - 18 found that 45 per cent of students admit to checking their mobile device after going to bed, of which 68 per cent said they think it is affecting their school work and 25 per cent said they felt tired during the day because of how often they checked their mobile device at night.

They tend to feel unaccepted and isolated and, as a result, are often withdrawn: On average across OECD countries, 42 per cent of students who reported that they are frequently bullied — but only 15 per cent of students who reported that they are not frequently bullied — reported feeling like an outsider at school.

By Year 4, the top 10 per cent of Australian students in mathematics perform at about the same level as the top 40 per cent of students in Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong.

New data show the percentage of students with 95 per cent plus attendance increased from 16.9 per cent in 2011 to 43.6 per cent in 2014, and it's tracking at 46.1 per cent so far in 2015.

By Year 8, this gap has widened, with the top 10 per cent of Australian students performing at about the same level as the top 50 per cent of students in Singapore, Korea and Chinese Taipei.

On average across OECD countries: around 11 per cent of students reported that they are frequently (at least a few times per month) made fun of, and in Australia this is 15 percent; 7 per cent reported that they are frequently left out of things and this is close to 13 per cent in Australia, and 8 per cent reported that they are frequently the object of nasty rumours in school.