Sentences with phrase «challenging education in»

Tohoku International School provides a comprehensive academic program from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 for foreign and Japanese families who seek a quality, challenging education in English for their children.

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Penley, who succeeded Cabrera as dean, maintains that the partnership is absolutely necessary due to all the challenges the university is facing in what is still a growing market for global business education.

Yes, there are challenges in education.

The proposed budget, coupled with Education Secretary Betsy Devos» earlier decision to eliminate certain protections for borrowers, increases the challenges associated with getting a college education in an era where knowledge is the economy's most important cEducation Secretary Betsy Devos» earlier decision to eliminate certain protections for borrowers, increases the challenges associated with getting a college education in an era where knowledge is the economy's most important ceducation in an era where knowledge is the economy's most important commodity.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

«Over the past six months, we've traveled the globe to find the world's most promising startups working to develop innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in education, energy & sustainability, health, and cities & transportation,» says Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776.

Nuñez was the only MBA holder in UConn's inaugural class, but as the job market remains challenging, EBV applicants are now «skewing older and much more advanced [in] education,» Zacchea says.

While raising money for the Jamie Oliver Foundation, which addresses nutritional education among children in a number of ways, he believes what he did will empower others to acknowledge, wrestle with and overcome whatever challenges they face, regardless of whether they're self - made or randomly imposed.

The new Liberal government will face some serious challenges, especially in two issues little discussed in the campaign: education and environment.

B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

Techcircle caught up with the Infosys co-founder on the sidelines of the #Future Summit, a global digital conclave organised by the Kerala government at Kochi, where he opened up about the challenges India faces as a country, the mentorship gap in the startup ecosystem, the significance of education and country - specific innovations.

Robinson said if governments tried to strengthen education qualifications for teachers, the proposed WTO restrictions on regulation could mean these governments would be challenged for creating a restriction on trade in education services.

For Behlendorf, the general challenges in blockchain include education on building applications in the blockchain space, as well as setting up projects.

In «Challenges, Growth and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2015,» authors William B.P. Robson and Alexandre Laurin outline measures that would help Canadians put their education, skills and talents to work, and enjoy economic security once they have left the workforce.

Ventures to Address Global Challenges — Princeton, NJ Techonomy — Tucson, AZ Global Clean Energy Congress — Calgary, AB Mashable Social Good Summit — New York, NY Postcode Lottery Green Challenge — Amsterdam, The Netherlands COMMON Pitch — Boulder, CO Colloquium on Education, Science and Technology in African Development — Princeton, NJ National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance: Open Minds Exhibition — Washington, DC

Middle Eastern entrepreneurs are spawning startups in education, crime - prevention, traffic - management, recycling, renewable energy, health, entertainment, education, and beyond, solving real challenges and finding new opportunities that can change societies.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

I do not have enough room in this post to even begun to discuss the challenges facing Health Minister Sarah Hoffman and Education Minister David Eggen (which will be included in a series of future posts).

Many of the countries and communities in which they operate face significant challenges in health, education, economic development, and basic infrastructure.

Speaking before the event the Archbishop said: «In the midst of these economic, social and political challenges, Church of England schools aim to provide an education that is deeply and authentically Christian, but also inclusive and embracing of diversity.

There also are institutional challenges to be met if the delicate ecology of theology and religious studies is not to succumb to the commodification of education, to ideologies with no room for theology (least of all for its celebratory mode), or to absorption in a range of other disciplines.

Unveiling the review, education secretary Damian Hinds (pictured below) said on Friday that some youngsters - especially those from challenging backgrounds - face «inconsistencies» in their experience of education.

In this regard, several external groups such as the Challenge Team and the Ten - ten Theatre Company offer useful services to schools, while some good supporting materials are available - the primary school «This is My Body» scheme and Education for Life aimed at secondary schools spring to mind.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

When the young Reinhold Niebuhr challenged his denomination in 1921 with an article titled «Shall a Minister Have an Education?»

The U.S. war to destroy revolutionary gains in education and health care and to reduce living standards in Nicaragua was part of a broader psychological war to discourage other third - world peoples from challenging U.S. power.

Not only must laypeople finance their own education, but their service to the church is often questioned and challenged, despite the dramatic decline in numbers of men entering the Catholic priesthood.

For someone who received all of his education at some of the leading «Inerrantist» schools in the country, I found the book incredibly challenging.

In his book on Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education, Robert Brumbaugh takes up the Whiteheadian challenge and in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2In his book on Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education, Robert Brumbaugh takes up the Whiteheadian challenge and in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2).

We clearly need to follow his lead in crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging uncritically accepted paradigms in science and education, getting others to join us in the complex task of trying to determine how things really are.

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

Rev Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer, said: «In the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative termIn the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative termin negative terms.

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

George Leonard puts the challenge well: «Education in a new and greatly broadened sense can become a lifelong pursuit for everyone.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

The greatest challenge lies in education.

Challenges and Responses: Church's Ministry in the Third Millennium — Challenges for Theological Education (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2000), pp. 294 — 314.

They challenge transnational corporations investing in apartheid, or oppose proliferating nuclear reactors, or develop education programs to combat international monetary disorders or world hunger or the arms race.

My parents faced a big decision: Should they keep me in the same school and allow my challenges to direct me toward a special education program?

They should challenge and coach couples in developing the skills needed to renegotiate and update their marriage contract (covenant) regularly to provide opportunities for both parties to share fairly in child care, breadwinning, education, personal satisfactions, and household chores.

For twenty centuries the Christian faith has struggled to come to terms with culture, and with the Christian ethic of love has both informed and challenged the various expressions of civilized culture, particularly in the areas of science, art and education.

In terms of our previous discussion of the rhythm of education, the subject matter and an interesting manner of presenting it, the challenge of new ideas hopefully touches the recesses of creativity within each student, and stimulates their interest, prompting interest in further inquirIn terms of our previous discussion of the rhythm of education, the subject matter and an interesting manner of presenting it, the challenge of new ideas hopefully touches the recesses of creativity within each student, and stimulates their interest, prompting interest in further inquirin further inquiry.

To recognize the differences among different moral communities and take them seriously in moral education is to enter a pluralistic quagmire in which disagreements arise, one's impartiality is challenged, and feelings are hurt.

«The failure to incorporate studies in the liberal arts and humanities, along with STEM education, will deprive the next generation of students the critical thinking skills and context necessary to address the challenges they will face in the future.»

Last weekend I had the pleasure of lecturing at the American Enterprise Institute's Values and Capitalism Faculty Retreat on the challenges facing Christians in higher education.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

Rather than lapsing into shamed silence the Church should redouble her efforts: she should direct her attention to this area and should allocate substantial resources to sex and relationships education, to dynamic programmes that meet the complicated pastoral challenges in the field of sexual education in order to provide young people with a healthy vision of human sexuality.