Sentences with phrase «few opportunities for young people»

There were very few opportunities for young people to feel their voices heard outside the immediate group.

The results have been all too visible: a «brain drain» to the United States, difficulties in recruiting the best and brightest from Asia, few opportunities for young people interested in careers in industry, and obstacles to mobility between countries and between academia and industry.

Not exact matches

This means that for many young people, there are now fewer opportunities to experience what psychologist Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi has termed «flow»: the pleasurable feeling a teen has when engaging in an activity that demands total emotional and mental concentration, like playing the piano or participating in a team sport.

«There are few opportunities for people, whether you're a senior or a young person, to get around in an affordable, accessible way,» Morelle said.

«We have been working for the past few weeks with our local employers, training providers and community partners to identify opportunities that will help us to provide training that helps young people get the skills they need to find good jobs.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

Given the demand for software skills in the labor market, there's been a lot of fanfare in recent years around seeding opportunities to boost young people's computer science skills — the Hour of Code, the emergence of numerous coding boot camps, and edX's very popular Harvard MOOC, CS50, to name a few.

Reformists agree that housing children in rows of desks for hours at a time with few breaks between lectures and few opportunities to create and collaborate limits what young people can learn.

and «Does it create more or fewer supports and opportunities for the young people to reach the high levels of academic preparation and personal and social skills required for the 21st century?»

People are always told to go out and make your splash in the world, but for too many young professionals, the heavy burden of student loan debt means you have fewer opportunities to make healthy choices, begin pursuing life goals, and saving for retirement.