Sentences with phrase «education system demanding»

She found the U.K. education system demanding — in some ways, more so than in Japan.

Not every apparent ill of the education system demands or is amenable to a policy solution, and the declining relative quality of teachers provides an excellent example.

Not exact matches

They are focusing on systems to increase team education to meet the ever - growing demand as they expand.

Terry: The Western Australian education system is very good, evidenced by the mere fact that when you get to university level, there is strong demand for private clients to access our education and as we all know, the education sector is Australia's third largest export.

«What we really need is a more flexible and accessible system of post-secondary education that's affordable, that allows people to shift between fields while they're in study, to train or retrain as market demands change, and right now, it's quite difficult to do that because of high tuition and high student debt,» said McCormick.

«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.»

The green paper exhibits a genuine desire from the Government to promote integration, but until it stops feeling obliged to bow to the every demand of a small but noisy religious lobby, genuine integration in the education system will never be achieved.

The increasingly diverse and creative education system that the Government has created is far more suitable for gifted children — and in fact children of all abilities — because it can be so much more responsive to the demands of children.

The only areas capital (vouchers) may be the more progressive option is adult education (where the individual has almost complete control over the demand factors for it), running alongside a state system as well to address market failures.

The freezing of the demand driven system showed the government was not bluffing when it said it needed to reduce higher education spending.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

Education Schools We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accountable.

Cuomo says he will be the lobbyist for the students, and he called for a new commission, appointed jointly by the governor and legislature, to reform the state's education system, demanding greater accountability.

The new leaders will play a key role in formulating and implementing the Democratic majority's agenda, which Looney said will focus on «supporting working families, fighting for seniors, promoting small businesses and continuing to improve our education system to maintain Connecticut's competitive position in a demanding economy.»

TWEED COURTHOUSE — Frustrated parents and advocates from across the city took to the steps of the Department of Education headquarters Thursday afternoon to demand a delay of the controversial Kindergarten Connect online application system, set to launch in early 2014.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

«The education system produces qualified graduates far in excess of demand.

Our society depends upon engineers to design every aspect of our lives — where we live, what we drive, how we communicate and even what we eat — but America's primary and secondary education systems aren't producing enough critical thinkers to keep up with the demand.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K - 12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training.

A. We're trying to convert a late 19th / early 20th century education system into a vehicle for meeting the demands of the 21st century and preparing students for success in today's brave, new world.

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.

As the marketplace expands to be more inclusive, global and robust, all eyes are pointed to education systems as a crucial platform to prepare citizens to meet the demands of a changed world.

The Priority School Building programme has only scratched the surface and there is much to be done to meet the demands of the modern education system.

As external assessments become a regular part of the American education system, parents may demand that report cards offer accurate information about their children's progress.

To build the education system that the 21st century demands, says Professor Paul Reville, we have to look at what's failed in our attempts to reform the 20th - century education system we're still living with.

In particular, the new GCSEs will be more academically demanding so that the resulting grades command the confidence of students, employers and the further education institution 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?

After watching a protest by middle school students demanding better education grow into a national strike that shut down the country's education system for months, Adelman says she realized where her work would take her.

The Illinois Constitution, with one of the most demanding education clauses, says that the state must «provide for an efficient system of high quality public educational institutions and services.»

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

In a piece for Quartz this past week, I addressed how moving to a blended learning, competency - based education system in which students advance based on mastery, not time, could address many of the concerns by better preparing citizens for the demands ahead.

As online learning gains share and transforms our education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their dollars in moving public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side in the technology products and solutions themselves.

Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

The government blames improvements in the economy, a shrinking graduate pool and greater competition in the labour market for making it «more difficult for the education system to meet the demand for additional teachers domestically», and says overseas recruitment will be pursued as a «supplementary avenue of teacher supply».

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Lord Baker, chairman of Baker Dearing Educational Trust, commented: «As we head towards Brexit, the challenge for our education system is to ensure we equip students with the skills they need to forge successful careers in key areas like science, engineering and computing, which our economy increasingly demands.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.In this edition of the EdCast, Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman...

In an exclusive interview with Learnnovators, Karl Kapp shares his insights and foresights on the challenges of building an education system that aligns with the dynamically changing demands of this knowledge age.

The country has also set ambitious targets to bolster the number of students participating in higher education, which will in turn place significant demands on the primary, secondary, and tertiary education systems to boost its numbers and outcomes.

So I fail to understand why, when our fellow citizens protest, demand, and explain that such mutuality is missing from our education system, they are met with criticism.

But much of what school systems and principals currently demand from teachers in performance reviews has more to do with the rhetoric of education than with performance in the classroom.

These results support our basic reasoning that as long as Catholics could not be sure that the emerging public school systems of the 19th century would provide education in line with their church's demands, they tended to resist state schooling and establish their own private schools alongside the state sector.

They saw a mediocre education system as a big part of the problem - and they demanded action.

In an analysis for Education Next, they conclude that the current system is failing teachers, driving up the demand for expensive graduate degrees, and increasing the nations» debt burden, and suggest an overhaul is in order.

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.

There is also an urgent need for education systems to impart higher skills aligned with the demands of growing economies, where many jobs are being automated and skill sets are changing fast.

If Global Education shift the focus onto the transformation from a culture of reproduction and domination to one of partnership we are changing the general rules — transforming the value system underlying the global economy to make it compatible with the demands of human dignity we all ask for.

Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.