Sentences with phrase «education institutions based»

A National Framework for costing teaching in English higher education institutions based on the TRAC principles has also been developed.

The state identifies low - performing teacher education institutions based on its program - approval process.

Not exact matches

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 30, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Oracle today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Vocado, which provides a leading student - centric, cloud - based financial aid solution for higher education institutions.

Education provider Navitas has confirmed it is in advanced negotiations with US - based and other global learning institutions, saying it would reveal details of a partnership as early as this week.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

SoFi is one of the leading new financial technology companies based in Silicon Valley that not only reviews your credit score and income / debt ratios, but also looks at the quality of your education and quality of your work institution.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

The question as to whether there is a qualitative difference in the education being offered in church - sponsored colleges as over against state - supported institutions is a matter that has to be debated in the zero - based mission planning that Bishop Adams suggests.

This will involve taking or freezing assets directly when they can be identified, but also destroying drug crops and blocking the transfers of funding to al - Qaeda and the religious «education» institutions that provide its recruiting base.

In our own time, for instance, this question is the intellectual shrug that lies behind the institution of multicultural education, the social shrug that lies behind a race - based double standard of conduct, and the moral shrug that lies behind the permission to teach techniques of anal and oral sex to schoolchildren.

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

Stackhouse's proposal can be read to urge that theological education must shape the will by a paideia that forms in students dispositions to «right action,» to Christian praxis.9 The «basis» of this praxis is a piety structured by institutions, policy, and principle.

In medieval times, it was almost the sole basis of Jewish education, and it continued to be so down into the modern period, wherever Jews were confined to the ghettos of Europe and denied access to public educational institutions.

The R&D center will include a live working kitchen to bring in individuals from institutions, schools, universities and the military, along with nutritionists, to create new plant - based food solutions and provide a platform for education about the world of possibilities with plant - based foods.

As a non-profit research and education organization, The Center covers up - to - date studies on sustainable agriculture and health, and collaborates with academic and governmental institutions to fill gaps in the current knowledge base about the many benefits of organic food and farming.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological seeducation departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological seEducation Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to continue to offer meaningful and purposeful interventions in Nigeria's higher education institutions to realise government's desire to create knowledge basedEducation Trust Fund (TETFund) to continue to offer meaningful and purposeful interventions in Nigeria's higher education institutions to realise government's desire to create knowledge basededucation institutions to realise government's desire to create knowledge based economy.

Additionally, for this grant opportunity, each Community Network must secure a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with a local postsecondary education institution, local business or community - based organization.

The SEDREF web - based system represents the authoritative source for institutions conducting business with the New York State Education Department.

Germany wishes to attract more international excellence to its institutions of higher education, so it is no surprise that all positions will be filled on an international basis.

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

«What we found was that African - American students, older adults, students who attend part - time, those who had a GED versus a high school diploma and those assigned to the lowest level of developmental education brought significantly less performance - based funding to the institution,» McKinney said.

An analysis of survey data from participants in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)- based Disparities Leadership Program — a yearlong executive education initiative designed to help health care leaders address racial and ethnic disparities in health care services — has identified five important strategies that helped participants implement successful projects for their institutions.

A committee of 10 to 15 scientists, mainly from the institution, interviews candidates and judges them on the basis of their motivation, education, knowledge of the area, experience, and proposed study plan.

Just 6 days ago, the Scholars at Risk Network, an international group based in New York City, initiated a letter - writing campaign to ask the Iraqi, U.K., and U.S. governments to help investigate recent murders and better protect Iraq's higher education institutions.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

He said last Friday that he endorsed the ACOST view of the importance of maintaining a strong science base and the need for an effective research infrastructure in higher education institutions, but that in today's economic climate, there would be no increases.

A Chinese engineer who visited KIT, his former education institution, with a delegation in summer 2016, very quickly realized the market potential of KIT's software development that is now used as a basis of DriveSim.

«The jobs of the future will be created by science, and science only works based on an international dialogue,» says Professor Klaus Landfried, the president of the Association of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions in Germany (HRK).

-- The Secretary shall provide funding to institution of higher education - based industrial research and assessment centers, whose purposes shall be --»;

Such allowances shall be distributed on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education, companies, research foundations, trade and industry research collaborations, or consortia of such entities, or other appropriate research and development entities to achieve the goals of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (as described in section 5012 (c) of the America COMPETES Act) through targeted acceleration of --

The Promoting Active Learning & Mentoring (PALM) network was established to spark sustained biology education reform at diverse institutions through one - on - one mentorships for faculty new to approaches based on Vision and Change recommendations.

On the basis of the «European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance», higher education institutions are obliged to internal quality assurance.

While attending seminars in the home institution belongs to an integral part of the education, DIPP PhD students are encouraged to attend further research seminars regularly and based on interest and need.

- Possessing a bachelor's degree or professional certificate from an accredited institution of higher education - Employed in a supervisory or management position - Self - employed - Having a 100 % commission - based job - Having any occupational equivalent of a professional - Retired from a professional position as defined above

Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) is popularly credited with beginning the trend and establishing many of the recurrent features of the genre, such as its basis in literature, its pictorial treatment of the rural landscape and its thematic emphasis on institutions and education, and how they are often inimical to personal individuality and positive self - identity (see, in particular, the female experience as charted in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career [1979] or Bruce Beresford's The Getting of Wisdom [1977]-RRB-.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In addition to the obvious need for increased teacher resources and teacher support in order to implement new programs, Reimers cited three additional factors: the lack of political will on the part of national and state governments; the resulting insufficient knowledge base to support effective citizenship and human rights education; and the limited ability of international institutions to implement educational change.

There's a perception within certain academic circles that adherence to tradition is what makes the institution of education great, and ideological cross-pollination between high - tech startups and higher education is an exercise in futility, but is this based on experience or assumption?

Somehow, in projecting to the future, Whittle posits a large number of changes in the basic institutions for delivering education, education research, and education personnel, based on the «success» of the EMOs, especially Edison.

However, the school curriculum goes beyond multicultural songs and dances; it is based on Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF), a text based on interdisciplinary - instruction research from Harvard University's Project Zero and pedagogical work by global - education institutions such as the International Baccalaureate, the Asia Society, Oxfam, and Facing History and Ourselves.

Networks of institutions and individuals could be created, focusing the transformative nature of Global Citizenship Education, as defined by DEEEP: «Education for Global Citizenship is based on an understanding of the purpose of education as going beyond the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive skills, to transforming the way people think and act individually and collectivelEducation, as defined by DEEEP: «Education for Global Citizenship is based on an understanding of the purpose of education as going beyond the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive skills, to transforming the way people think and act individually and collectivelEducation for Global Citizenship is based on an understanding of the purpose of education as going beyond the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive skills, to transforming the way people think and act individually and collectiveleducation as going beyond the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive skills, to transforming the way people think and act individually and collectively.»

(The average national pass rate on the Praxis is difficult to calculate, because ETS provides such information largely on an institution - by - institution basis, and passing scores vary by state; some education colleges do better than Western Governors, some not as well.)

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

Alternative routes to licensure outside of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organeducation: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organEducation report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organeducation,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organizations.

Research carried out by higher education institutions is funded on the basis of the «dual support» system.