Sentences with phrase «ethnic minorities into»

Many education policymakers and practitioners across the country recognize the need to recruit and retain more racial and ethnic minorities into the teaching profession.

«The establishment of a priority list of candidates for target seats, with specific emphasis on getting more women and people from ethnic minorities into winnable positions.

They might pretend in order to fool women, LGBTQ folk, and racial or ethnic minorities into voting for them, or they might pretend in order to make other folks feel less bad about voting for them.

Wall Street is trying to attract more women and ethnic minorities into its predominantly white, male ranks.

Not exact matches

A Christian MP has warned that unless stronger action is taken, ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar will turn into «another genocide».

His influence even stretches beyond White Hart Lane: London's Mayor Boris Johnson has named King one of his own youth ambassadors for the capital, while Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has deployed the former Tottenham skipper on a scheme to encourage young black and ethnic minority men back into employment.

During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.

The Government has already announced its «race audit» into how ethnic minorities are treated by the public sector.

Ukraine is basically a country split into two distinct demographics - Russia oriented ones (there is a large minority of 17.3 % of ethnic Russians in Ukraine) and Europe oriented ones, especially in Western Ukraine [1].

Sadiq vowed «nothing was off the table» when it comes to Labour's drive to get more people from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds into senior posts.

But Watford councillor, Rabi Martins, countered that the debate was «not about money - it's about representation - what we as ethnic minority members are calling for is an equal playing field to get selected into target seats».

Funding changes in September 2011 removed dedicated funding for the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant, incorporating the funding into the Dedicated School Grant.

I would go even further than David Cameron - I would fast track even more talented women and ethnic minority candidates into the seats currently held by our Bedblocker MPs - about 25 % of the Parliamentary Party the last time I looked.

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

The United Nations has launched an investigation into whether welfare cuts have disproportionally hit marginalised groups in Britain such as single parents, ethnic minorities and children.

One of the speakers, the Catholic Bishop of Gboko, His Lordship, Williams Avenya, had reminded Osinbajo of the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari's campaign promises that he would not Islamise the country and would protect the interest of all Nigerians including citizens of minority ethnic groups if voted into power.

I am heading a review, warmly supported by Jeremy, into the party's support in our different ethnic minority communities.

But Labour addressed the problem, and even the Tories started getting ethnic minority candidates into parliament in the 1990s.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

This swell of nationalism swiftly spilled over into violence against local ethnic minorities, and director Abe Forsythe has made a very funny speculative fiction about the day after the carve - up.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

Networking and events group BAMEed will launch in January with the aim of encouraging more black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates into teaching and leadership roles, Schools Week has reported.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

Progress is to be measured both for all students and for students disaggregated into various subgroups, including disadvantaged students, those with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and those from racial or ethnic minority populations.

A networking and events group aimed at encouraging more black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates into teaching and headship roles will launch in January.

Paul Miller, professor of educational leadership at the University of Huddersfield, told delegates at last weekend's inaugural BAMEed conference in Birmingham that there was «no way» a minority ethnic person could progress into the top jobs at schools without first forming an alliance with white co-workers.

Through purposeful experiences outside the classroom in cultural contexts related to the ethnic background of minority students, the absolute authority of the preservice teacher was brought into question.

Involve all students, particularly low income, first - generation college, and underrepresented ethnic minority backgrounds, in precollege program learning experiences that focus on developing college aspirations and preparing students for entry into higher education.

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

Further, mass - market paperback and e-book formats provide an entry point into publishing for new voices of every kind: women writers, writers of color and ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender writers, young writers, and writers who are creating new genres.

Inseparable continues and expands my interest in the Asian story in American history, in how ethnic minorities, against impossible odds, turn cultural margins into cutting edges.

The Edinburgh Mela Festival first begun in 1995 by the ethnic minority communities in the town and has evolved into a large annual affair filled with programmes of music, dance, theater, sports, arts and crafts, and activities for children.

Oroqen School, Heilongjiang Province, July 2017 At Oroqen schools, the curriculum attempts to counter a dwindling of the ethnic minority's language, working lessons in Oroqen into their students» weekly schedule.

Given the way concentrations fall within the city, children from more deprived groups and ethnic minorities are more adversely affected, turning improving air quality into a question of equality and fairness.

Beth Leng, Managing Associate at Mishcon de Reya, commented on The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy's recently commissioned research into minority ethnic workplace progression.

Set up by the SRA board and chaired by Anesta Weekes QC, the working party will look into why black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors are over-represented in the SRA's regulatory investigations, and examine accusations that BME practitioners are treated differently from their white colleagues.

Establishment lawyers felt the entrepreneurial up - and - comers were demeaning the profession and degrading the reputation of lawyers by transforming the practice of law into a business industry that admitted ethnic minorities and others who lacked rank and class.

In the wake of a storm of critical comments after the publication of Lord Ouseley's recent report into how black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors are treated by the profession's regulatory arm, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board is meeting this week to agree a new equality and diversity strategy.

To that end, the symposium will hear from Dr Laia Becares, from the University of Manchester, who is leading a three year research project into health inequalities experienced by ethnic minorities in the UK, US and New Zealand (NZ), which has looked specifically at the impact of both maternal and neighbourhood experiences of racism.

That research base compares poorly to work that UK researcher Dr Laia Becares, from the University of Manchester, is able to undertake in a three - year research project into health inequalities experienced by ethnic minorities in the UK, US and New Zealand (NZ).

Data were dichotomized into ethnic majority background (coded as 0) versus ethnic minority background (coded as 1).