Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority backgrounds»

It's understood that for the first time, those from ethnic minority backgrounds will be able to choose from a range of culturally matched donors.

National experts who acted as consultants for this study suggest that more assistants are of ethnic minority backgrounds than core practitioners.

The extent to which child and family characteristics such as educational level and ethnic minority background impact intervention effectiveness might in part depend on the specific intervention evaluated.

So far, we have compiled the results from 250 pupils aged between 14 and 18 from ethnic minority backgrounds, spread across three schools.

Coaches from black and ethnic minority backgrounds still face «institutionally embedded barriers» in English football, according to a sports think...

«As a result children from ethnic minority backgrounds languish in care for longer than other kids and are denied the opportunities they deserve.

BAMEed has been created to raise the status of teaching among communities from ethnic minority backgrounds by encouraging career progression.

«We provide a range of support to teachers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds such as the Leadership Targeted Support Fund and Equality and Diversity Fund.

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.

Bolt's inspection report, carried out throughout 2017, paints a stark picture of a scheme that is causing real harm to migrants - both documented and undocumented - people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and society at large.

However, several studies indicate that non-Hispanic White children are much more likely to use these medications than are children from racial / ethnic minority backgrounds [16, 35].

The group who chose to give birth in hospital rather than at home were more likely to be first - time mothers or of an ethnic minority background — the risk of complications is higher in both these groups.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

While such racist policies never became official Conservative policy, we had enough such people within our party to ruin our brand with most people from an ethnic minority background.

The report praised the fact that in the 2010 general election a record 27 MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds had been elected, but found that racial «typecasting» was still prevalent throughout the political system.

From both peoples» names and from their accents, I could tell that many of the people I was telephoning were from an ethnic minority background.

We know a lot more of tomorrow's Tory MPs are likely to be women, quite a few more will be from ethnic minority backgrounds and a lot will be gay... but is that real diversity?

Britain First's confrontational style of campaigning has seen it stage «mosque invasions» and provocative patrols in areas with large numbers of British citizens from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Unconscious bias training is increasingly used by major corporations to help executives overcome the innate prejudices that mean they often overlook promising women and candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds.

«Local associations in target seats to ensure at least half of those candidates put forward for final selection to be women or from an ethnic minority background.»

Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) because they feel they don't need to have it, according to a Cancer Research UK survey presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

One in 10 middle aged adults had substantial hearing problems and were more likely to be from a working class or ethnic minority background.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the feasibility of sending supportive text messages to low - income mothers of racial and ethnic minority backgrounds with postpartum depression and gauge the perception of receiving such message for depression.

More than half of the university's graduate students are from outside the U.K., with students coming from more than 130 countries, and 20 % of its academic staff is from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Data also found that texts written by writers from ethnic minority backgrounds had been «marginalised» with some courses only offering five per cent of texts from such writers.

In an area where the majority of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds, the school will provide 750 students with the opportunity to excel academically, and gain skills and experiences needed to make informed choices about their future.

The Catholic Education Service rejected the suggestion that their schools were socially exclusive: «Catholic schools in England have higher proportions of pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds with 33.5 % of pupils in Catholic primary schools from ethnic minority backgrounds compared with 27.6 % nationally.»

Students «At - Risk:» Students «at - risk» include populations of students in America's public schools who, disproportionate to their low - risk peers, are more likely to have emotional / learning disabilities and / or come from high - needs, high - poverty, English - language deficient, culturally isolated (e.g., inner - cities, hoods, ghettoes, enclaves, and American - Indian reservations), and often racial / ethnic minority backgrounds.

Schools must still conduct an evaluation of the «content and effectiveness» of a parent and family engagement policy and still identify «barriers to greater participation by parents in activities authorized by this section (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background).»

Teachers from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds (BME) face an «invisible glass ceiling» that limits them from being taken seriously for senior staff jobs, new figures suggest.

The study also evidenced that teachers representing racial and ethnic minority background might be more likely than others to not only receive lower relatively scores but also be more likely identified for possible dismissal as a result of their relatively lower evaluation scores.

The department and university value diversity and welcome candidates with multi - cultural / ethnic minority background or experience.

World music: Chris Ofili, the Turner prize - winning artist, is launching a nationwide search for modern musicians from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Chris Ofili, the Turner prize - winning artist, is launching a nationwide search for modern musicians from ethnic minority backgrounds.

She added that she was encouraged that the proportion of successful applicants from an ethnic minority background broadly matches that for white applicants and that the number of successful women applicants has remained high.

If a law student with an ethnic minority background is unable to impress an interviewer because of a failure to meet the above criteria, that failure should not be attributed to ethnicity unless there is overwhelming evidence showing that to be the case.

Her work focuses on the effects on child development of early parenting and teacher interactions with children from families of low - income and ethnic minority backgrounds.

Of the families, 31 % had a lower educational level and 29 % had an ethnic minority background.

Our findings suggest that at least in The Netherlands, the Incredible Years parenting intervention is not less or more effective for families with lower educational or ethnic minority backgrounds, or for children with ADHD symptoms.

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