Sentences with phrase «education system aged»

She says she lost friends to drug overdoses and joy - riding before leaving the education system aged 16.

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«The education system can not solve the problem for the current population of working - aged adults,» says Gillian Mason, president of ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC).

The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

Further explaining the company's diverse portfolio, Sethi told that Quest Alliance is also making an effort for a responsive education system and help students develop a career mindset at an early age.

Donald Trump's proposed system of merit - based immigration — instead of family - based unification programs — assigns points to candidates based on factors like age, education and English skills.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

There's nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, religious background, sexual orientation, physical abilities, physical traits, age, education, job, socioeconomic status, primary relationship status, parental status, taste, value systems, political views, length of time in the community and accent.

Compared with the TL system, participants using the M - % DI system were five times less likely to be able to identify the healthier food items (OR = 0.2; 95 % CI 0.1 — 0.5), and those using the CC - % DI system were three times less likely to be able to identify the healthier products (OR = 0.3; 95 % CI 0.1 — 0.9), after controlling for gender, age, education level and household income (Table 2).

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

Since kids of all ages go online (whether on the computer, through their gaming systems or even your smartphone), education about online safety is as important as safety in the community.

Contact the special education department of your local school system, which is required by law to provide assessment and services for children age 3 and older with special needs.

A classical soprano with an MFA in Theatre Education / Outreach and Dramatic writing, she started her blog because having a family gave her a point of view as a cook, and being a mother (to boys, ages 2 & 5, one with sensory - motor problems) made her even more eager to learn about food systems and how the stuff we eat affects little people's bodies and brains.

«Breast milk still is the most important part of your baby's diet at this age, so breastfeed right before you offer cereal or other foods,» says Debi Page Ferrarello, R.N., M.S., I.B.C.L.C., director of family education and lactation at Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

We do not differentiate between pre-16 and post-16 in the hospital education funding system, although local authorities» duties differ for young people aged 16 and over and this may affect their decisions on funding education for such young people (see section 7.8 for further information).

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration «Through education, training, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0 - 16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

He says more diversion is needed early, with education and job opportunities, and that New York needs to stop treating 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults in the criminal justice system, a movement known as «raise the age.»

Ghana has a free education 6 - year primary school education system beginning at age six, [163] and, under the educational reforms implemented in 1987 and reformed in 2007, they pass on to a 3 - year junior high school system.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

Throughout the 1970s, there was considerable pressure to merge the systems - particularly since the raising of the age of compulsory education to 16 considerably increased the number of pupils in a position to obtain qualifications.

That's why Tristram Hunt's emphasis on school standards, and Ed Miliband's call for a renewed focus on the «forgotten fifty per cent», including compulsory English and Maths up to the age of 18, is critical to ensuring our education system equips everyone to get a job.

They are separated from one another according to presumed, inherited beliefs, an arbitrary difference which is institutionalised and cemented from an early age in the education system.

Let's dedicate $ 100 million to transform every failing school in New York into a comprehensive, holistic, full - service community school and change the basic education system in this state and stop the cycle of incarceration in this state and paying for problems, rather than stopping the problems at an early age.

Living and doing business in the county is enhanced by a dynamic quality of life, skilled workers, an excellent education system, and a full range of sports, cultural and tourist attractions for all ages.

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There are several reasons for this high graduation age, many of them resulting from the current structure of the higher education system.

With figures suggesting that almost 20 % of children of school age in the UK are bilingual, its findings could have major implications for young people's personal and professional prospects, as well as national health and education systems.

Universal child care that starts as early as age one improves language skills for young children, especially those from low - income families, according to a study of Norway's child care system by a team of researchers led by Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Eric Dearing.

In Norway, over 90 percent of children aged 1 to 5 attend a public or private kindergarten, which is an integrated part of the education system.

«He's one of a dying breed,» says physiologist Arlan Richardson, director of the Aging Research and Education Center at UTHSCSA, «one of the [few] people who has really thought about whole - animal systems.»

Dr. Gisele Wolf - Klein, director of geriatric education at North Shore - LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y., added that even the researchers aren't sure why PPIs would affect the aging brain.

Countries like Japan, Singapore, and China have high rates of vision problems in children, and they also have a more intensive education system that focus on reading small words at an early age.

Anyone who has a preschooler about to enter the official education system knows all too well the intelligent and questioning nature of this age.

We devised a reciprocal recommendation system to match users of mutual interest according to content - based algorithms, which are based on factors that include a user's age, education and income — and another, collaborative filtering - style algorithm, which is based on prior communications: both of the user and of other users with similar interests and attractiveness.

The new matching system gives each person a profile score, which is calculated from information like age, education, social network analysis and even facial structure.

Photo verification, age, income, education, occupation and some other verification system ensures those members with verified logos are real and trustful.

The search system has a high potential allowing to use multiple physical (age range, height, body type, even color of eyes and hair), social (occupation, education, income etc.), personal (marital status, the number of kids, willing to have more) filters.

There is a detailed verification system where users can verify their age, photos, occupation and education.

All this because America is tied to an outmoded system of age - based education that demands conformity rather than celebrating the unique gifts of the individual.

Nearly every school system in the country is responding to the crisis in American education by scurrying to prepare the next generation for work in the emerging information - age economy.

These are just two examples of independent community projects which now help to fill a musical gap in the education system, with repertoire which is eclectic yet age - appropriate and not wedded to a particular style of music.

Let's awaken teaching to the opportunities enhanced use of technology presents, and develop an education system that can flourish in this new age.

Making it fun for all ages I believe interventions need to start at a young age to nurture the natural creativity, curiosity and lateral thinking of young minds, often lost as they progress through the education system.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

Certainly, modern formal education and training systems were developed with young people in mind — people seen to be going through an initial learning phase in their lives, to be doing a whole range of things for the first time, and to be doing these things all together at more or less the same ages.

In Utah, which has the fastest - growing school - age population in the United States, a task force studying educational reform has found «an education system locked into a network of operating procedures by a multitude of traditions, decisions, practices, and attitudes which have evolved slowly over the years,» and has recommended 27 steps «to dislodge or alter some of the procedures.»

A delegation of 15 American education, business, and political leaders traveled to France for two weeks to study the country's preschool system, called écoles maternelles, which provides all the country's children, ages 3 to 5, with a free, voluntary early education.

It should be noted that there has never been a golden age in education in which these goals were met, and the future will represent a struggle of incremental reforms in a system designed to «conserve» rather than transform society.

Modern society, having stepped over a threshold of the third millennium, departed further from the first main criteria proclaimed during the Age of Enlightenment and put in a basis of the European and American education system.

Described as a «robot learning system», WeDo 2.0 combines Lego bricks, specialist education software and its own syllabus of projects, aimed at teaching students aged 7 - 10 about the basics of science and engineering.