Not exact matches
The report finds makes a list
of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local
education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort
of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence · Support
diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding
of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations
of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and
diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding
of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree -
level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence, as a core part
of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs
of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched
at an event in the House
of Commons later today.
Making
education uniform
at too high
of a
level of aggregation ignores the
diversity of needs
of our children as well as the
diversity of opinion about how best to serve those needs.
Harvard U. Achieves Gender Parity in Junior Faculty Hires Inside Higher Ed, 4/10/15» «Over the past several years, Harvard, like many institutions, has worked diligently to diversify its faculty
at all
levels,» Judith D. Singer, Harvard's senior vice provost for faculty development and
diversity and James Bryant Conant Professor
of Education, said via email.
At the federal
level, former U.S. Secretary
of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school
diversity through a number
of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department
of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic
diversity in their schools.12
Teacher self - research; interpersonal and intrapersonal dimensions
of teaching; teacher professional development; the role
of identity in teachers» professional lives, teacher narrative inquiry; educator autobiography; second language
education at the secondary
level; human
diversity in
education; use
of actor preparation techniques in teacher professional development; effects
of education policy and politics on K - 12 & postsecondary teaching practice.
When large percentages
of minority children do not complete high school and almost half
of those in urban districts can not read
at grade
level, the lucky few who fit into the «
diversity» quotas for higher
education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.