Sentences with phrase «education system which»

Well, blame it on the current education system which is both demanding and taxing.

In 1944 England established a tripartite education system which placed grammar schools at the top of the heap.

The World Bank has already feted the Zambian education system which it has christened as the most improved among the developing nations.

«Relying on performance on one day in an examination room is an outdated model which goes back to an education system which aimed solely to test recall of knowledge,» said General Secretary Brian Lightman.

«I make no apology for making even greater demands of an education system which has to respond with greater urgency to increasingly difficult and competitive economic circumstances.»

http://minedu.fi/en/education-system#Upper secondary education It's disingenuous to justify an education system which segregates children according to ability at age 11 by comparing it with a post-16 system.

NUNAVUT: The government of Nunavut, in its deficit budget, struggles to address poverty needs, housing and provide support to an education system which keeps its students in school.

«New Leaders is serving an important role in our nation's future by strengthening school leadership in the public education system which will help ensure students are prepared with the skills needed to keep the U.S. competitive and our communities healthy,» said Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing Military Aircraft and New Leaders board member.

The company is providing a contracted service in our public education system which is, itself, compulsory and, for the time being at least, democratically controlled.

«It means an education system which caters for the very different talents and potential of different children - whether it's technical education, maths schools or whether it's giving local communities a choice over how selection works at local level.

After completing his law degree and returning to his home state, Quarles decided to run for office in the hope of making vast improvements, especially to the state education system which ranks last in the country.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

He said the government, industry and the academia are looking at how to fine - tune the country's colonial education system which he said is very theoretical and not practically oriented.

We will continue to campaign alongside many others to ensure this Government comes to its senses and creates an education system which encompasses all children and all abilities.»

With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and deserve.

This is central to our mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system which is a source of national pride and confidence.

We can not have an education system which is perceived by many to be manifestly unfair.»

Similarly, we have a public education system which has been an effective agent in dissolving the ties and virtues of a traditional society.

The penultimate chapter of this book continues to challenge the reader to reflect upon the tensions found within the formalised education system which prevent true unity.

It says education systems which have invested heavily in information and communications technology have seen «no noticeable improvement» in Pisa test results for reading, mathematics or science.

Not exact matches

«The billion - dollar difference between Mathnasium and everyone else is the education program, which I truly believe is the best math education system available in the world.

The Taiwan - based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything from self - driving cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

This gets back to the New York Times column I cited yesterday, which disparaged business efforts to address what have traditionally been public sector issues — like fixing the health care system, exploring space, or providing general education and training.

These training programs can range from orientation programs, which are designed to acclimate new hires to the company, to ambitious education programs intended to familiarize workers with a new software system.

The OECD hoped that the test, which launches this year, would be taken alongside the organisation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, which is used to compare education systems.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

It was «The Education Channel» which is basically public access for the county school system.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

Through surveys and other analysis, they identified a long list of factors that were interacting like a chemical equation, which is the unsexy secret about how education systems usually work.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

We promised to restore funding to our health and education systems - which we did with the passing of the Interim Supply Act.

Even the BC Teachers» Federation, which has long prided itself on being non-partisan, is clearly campaigning for the NDP this time around, with a pricey TV ad calling on British Columbians to dump a government it insists has laid waste to the education system.

They have created Prelude, a suite of educational tools that develops soft skills — imagination, intuition, hunch, affect and creativity — the value of which is beginning to be properly recognized in the education system and greater society.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

«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.»

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

Post offices, record labels, publishing companies, book stores, TV networks, travel agencies, education systems, economic systems, even governments are all under stress because they have transformed the conditions under which they were created.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), a Christian charity which trains church members to offer regular one - hour mentoring sessions to youngsters in difficult circumstances, told Premier that «injustice» plagues the education system.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

The colleges argue that students, including LGBT students, have a wide range of institutions from which to choose, and that a pluralistic system in education should not disfavor an institution that follows a distinctive religious - moral perspective, or the students who choose it.

The limitations of the engineering approach to social problems become clear as the reader follows Murray through the two chapters in which he discusses the public education system.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

The most important product of education is a constructive, consistent, and compelling system of values around which personal and social life may be organized.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

This is characterized by competition for the marketplace which is open to anyone who can produce the goods and services, unhindered by government subsidy, monopoly, or other interference with competition.1 For a system actually to function as free enterprise capitalism there must be opportunity for individuals in the general populace to obtain education and also to obtain access to capital and resources for new ventures.

Since education systems are run by states and every state closes for the same holidays, (which are only Catholic).