Sentences with phrase «challenge the education sector»

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-- April 22, 2009 — Child safety experts, policymakers, leaders in the nonprofit sector and the wireless industry joined together today at the Wireless Online Safety Conference, co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and The Wireless Foundation, to discuss the challenges kids face in a mobile online environment and the vital role education plays in keeping them safe.

The Minister made the call on Monday while delivering in his speech at the Special Retreat of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on the challenges facing the education sector in Nigeria.

The President said health and education remained priority areas for government and called for support of all to fix the challenges in those sectors.

Professor Jane Naana Agyeman Opoku, Minister for Education challenged girls to take advantage of the programme to leverage their skills in the Technical and Vocational sectors to make them employable.

«Now that a commitment has been made to extend the number of free early education places, the challenge remains how to ensure the childcare sector is supported to deliver these places.»

He added that the government would continue to respond to the challenges facing the education sector in the state.

The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said that the government's Free Senior High School policy will not help to address the teething challenges in the country's education sector.

To address this challenge, strong measures are being developed to revitalise the non-formal education sector.»

Later the Department for International Development said that the Girls Education Challenge was «a new project that will call on NGOs, charities and the private sector to find better ways of getting girls into school in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia which the UK has identified as a priority, including Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nigeria.»

Central to this challenge is the remuneration of teachers from nursery to the tertiary level of the education sector.

However, in response to the developments in the sector, a former Deputy Minister of Education under the John Mahama administration, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has observed that there are more pressing challenges confronting TVET having to do with infrastructure and patronage.

Fox explains that the Equality Challenge Unit has been established in order to «improve equal opportunities for all who work, and seek to work, in the UK higher education sector».

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

As life sciences become the fourth pillar of the nation?s economy, and with the pace of development in this sector accelerating rapidly, science education is taking on an increasingly greater role in preparing students for many of tomorrow's challenges.

The challenges In recent years, sustainability has taken more of a toe - hold in the formal education sector, though this is continually under threat.

But public education in our city is also facing a number of systemic challenges: DCPS asks why it can't function with the same freedoms as the charter sector.

Among the challenges that set education apart from most sectors is the presence of a relatively small number of employees compared with a large number of non-employees, most of whom are children.

To achieve all of this though, and to support the wider education sector in meeting the challenges it faces, they need to explore ways of enhancing the experience and usability of the app for students and teachers.

A solution to this workplace challenge for the education sector is a new whistleblowing e-learning package from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) that empowers employees to act in the right way if they witness misconduct at work.

The education, skills and learning sectors must adapt and refocus to the major economic, ecosystem and social challenges of this century and demonstrate to young people the links between their skills and talents, their future jobs and careers, and the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

At the Education Support Partnership we know that working in the sector is, in equal measures, one of the most challenging and fulfilling career choices there is.

(Education DIVE) Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones wrote an op - ed about thinking about innovation in early education, and the opportunities in that sector to address two enduring challenges — absenteeism and Education DIVE) Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones wrote an op - ed about thinking about innovation in early education, and the opportunities in that sector to address two enduring challenges — absenteeism and education, and the opportunities in that sector to address two enduring challenges — absenteeism and turnover.

This month, the Arts Council launched the Cultural Education Challenge: a national call to action for the arts and educatioEducation Challenge: a national call to action for the arts and educationeducation sector.

The fact that this would be done for the K — 12 education sector at a time when that system was being severely challenged, and when new opportunities for leadership were opening up, was also exciting.

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

«Yet, we learn from each other that the challenges we face are human challenges and that the perception of differences fuels so many problems that we see in education and other sectors.»

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As a Minister with prior experience of the education sector, including sitting on the Education Select Committee, we are confident that Mr Hinds will have an existing awareness of the «on the ground» issues and challenges facing schools and a passion for the teaching preducation sector, including sitting on the Education Select Committee, we are confident that Mr Hinds will have an existing awareness of the «on the ground» issues and challenges facing schools and a passion for the teaching prEducation Select Committee, we are confident that Mr Hinds will have an existing awareness of the «on the ground» issues and challenges facing schools and a passion for the teaching profession.

The education sector could learn from other sectors to help address the challenges of managing the schools estate in the wake of funding cuts.

It's clear that the education sector is faced with multiple challenges.

The modular industry is able to produce buildings that provide a much - needed service within the education sector, which is going through a challenging ‑ enough period with wavering budgets and unpredictable population changes.

The program will convene presidents from all sectors of higher education in an interactive, retreat - like environment where they will learn from Harvard higher education faculty experts, accomplished institutional advancement practitioners, and fellow presidents facing similar leadership challenges.

on the members of Cohort 3 this past May, it unleashed 24 new leaders uniquely trained to navigate the education sector's greatest challenges.

Of the conference, Beary said the best parts had been plugging into the Harvard network again, and hearing many different perspectives on the challenges that the education sector faces.

The current difficulties within the education sector demand leaders who are able to comprehend all the internal workings of the school system to overcome the challenges highlighted above.

With many decades of experience in the education sector to draw on, Gratnells has developed an approach over the last few years called «Learning Rooms», which takes this challenge on and aims to transform the environment in which teachers teach and learners learn.

The professional in - house facilities management team at Edge Hill University comprises almost 300 permanent members of staff, funded by the university and operating within the context of an extremely competitive and financially challenging higher education sector.

In The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press; Publication date: September 17, 2012), these leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seek to challenge familiar assumptions and to generate new thinking in a variety of ways, including looking at other sectors, other nations, and emerging new technologies.

Nafham says many Arab countries are facing public sector education challenges related to access, quality and infrastructure.

Every African country is very unique in the needs and challenges that its education sector faces.

Much of this comes down to carefully selecting a good governance team and ensuring that they fully understand what is expected and required of them — their responsibilities in setting out the strategic direction for the school and steering it through what is a challenging economic environment for the education sector.

LEARNING FROM OTHER SECTORS Professor John Howson, chair of the REC's Education Steering Group has argued that «the increase in pupil numbers and decline in trainee teacher numbers heralds a period when recruitment will become more of a challenge, especially in certain subjects and phases».

This review will build on firm foundations and challenges all of us within the education and skills sector to go further.

This article breaks down the various needs and challenges educators are facing within the corporate sector, and offers guidance on choosing the best education software.

The education sector is always evolving, and in turn, so are the challenges faced by schools, leaders, teachers and pupils.

In fact, the challenge of measuring productivity in the private sector is often as great as or greater than in education.

«In concert with colleagues and pivotal players in the education sector, I plan to continue the critical work of insuring our school's relevance and impact in addressing the seminal educational issues and challenges of our day, for «to whom much is given, much is required».»

«Tackling workload is one of the key challenges we face in the education sector and an issue that has to be at the forefront everything that is done at both Welsh Government and local government level.

Cleland, in a statement sent to Schools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being affected.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.