Sentences with phrase «fewer graduates by»

A survey of the UK's leading 100 graduate recruiters — including Goldman Sachs, Unilever and BP — found many had downgraded their hiring plans after the Brexit referendum vote, with private sector organisations recruiting 10 % fewer graduates by the end of 2017.

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After graduating from Stanford with a degree in mechanical engineering and product design, Sterling was bothered by how few women were in her program and became obsessed with «disrupting the pink aisle» with a toy that would introduce girls to the joy of engineering at a young age.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

I do not wish to overstate my relationship with Dr. Polk (after I graduated we exchanged emails every few years) but his influence over me, a fellow Mississippi Baptist by birth and a devotee of literature by choice, was significant.

It was not until a few years into my teaching career that I was able to indulge my fancy by teaching a trial course at the seminary and graduate levels.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

A graduate of Cal Lutheran who got his master's at Texas while serving as a Mack Brown graduate assistant, Herman spent a few years as Sam Houston State's receivers coach, then got hired as Texas State's offensive coordinator by his 30th birthday.

Bachelor's - degree - granting and graduate and professional institutions in the public sector are with a few exceptions not financed by local governments.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

Thus far, I've met a few upperclassmen, and the first - year party held by the older graduate students allowed me to meet a great many more.

She says most students have job offers by the time they graduate and a few receive several offers.

When faced by these challenges, graduate students can whine and complain, or they can take matters into their own hands, as a group of students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) did a few years ago by creating the Industry Roundtable (IR).

(A graduate student could probably still get a doctorate from CMU for designing a robot to do something as simple as climbing stairs without tripping or stacking plates and cutlery in a dishwasher, an assignment that might be evaluated by how few crystal goblets were broken when loading the machine.)

While using a neighboring lab?s spectrophotometer, ask the PI a few questions about his own graduate school days as he walks by.

A few years ago, Jihye Yun, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that colon cancer cells whose growth is driven by mutations in the gene KRAS or a less commonly mutated gene, BRAF, make unusually large amounts of a protein that transports glucose across the cell membrane.

«Relatively few» science - based graduate assistants are excluded from bargaining rights because they are paid by external funds, not by the university.

Freeman has another idea: The way to attract young American talent is by providing much higher incomes for graduate students and postdocs, but with the explicit understanding that, as in such other highly prestigious, highly competitive fields as acting, music and professional sports, only a few of those who enter the competition will win the jackpot of a successful long - term career.

Although the field of engineering is dominated by Caucasian males and has very few minorities present, especially women, I am proud to be the first Native American Woman to graduate from the MSU program.

The name derives from an April 2010 report issued by the two group, called The Path Forward, that spelled out needed changes to U.S. graduate education, including a shorter time to degree, fewer dropouts, and attracting more minorities into science.

Ph.D. science graduates can expect another several years of low - income training followed by stiff competition for a few good jobs that may not pay that much.

The archive remained untouched until Rowdy Boeyink, a graduate student at Utrecht University, asked to see it and was shocked when a few letters written by the physicist Niels Bohr fell out of a magazine.

OPT status can also be used by graduate students still working on their dissertation research when they're no longer taking classes or when they are enrolled for fewer than nine credit - hours per semester.

Americans» views of higher education in STEM are more favorable by comparison, but there, too, fewer than half consider undergraduate education (35 %) or graduate education (38 %) in STEM fields as at least above average compared with other developed nations.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive blacgraduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive blacGraduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

Hi my name is Nicole I am a 22 year old full time student on my last year and a half of school so I figured why not have a little fun and meet a few new people before I graduate and start getting my butt kicked by the real world Lol..

By all accounts, young Charlie wasn't an especially distinguished student; though he was a star on Santa Monica High School's baseball team, he was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades only a few weeks before his class graduated.

Last August an independent film directed by an Austin resident and produced by a Port Neches - Groves graduate brought a few famous faces to Southeast Texas.

The Tiger Hunter is directed by filmmaker Lena Khan, a graduate from UCLA making her feature directorial debut after a few shorts previously.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

On average, fewer than half of the American Indian and Alaska Native students in 12 states graduate from high school, says a report released last month by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles of the University of California, Los Angeles.

At the time, I was knee - deep in a graduate program at CU Denver (Information and Learning Technologies) and working on a Library of Congress funded grant at MSU Denver, so I was primed to make a few cognitive connections that otherwise might have passed me by.

In other words, with fewer than nine months of school to complete, these students say by their actions that it's not worth it to stay in school and graduate.

school students are not learning enough; that they're being surpassed by their peers in other lands; that too many are bored to death; that too many drop out; that few of those who graduate are well prepared for college and employment.

Nearly everyone shares the concern of the president and the governors that U.S. high - school students are not learning enough; that they're being surpassed by their peers in other lands; that too many are bored to death; that too many drop out; that few of those who graduate are well prepared for college and employment.

But in just a few years, the high school's dropout rate has decreased by over half, and both student engagement and the number of students who receive college credit before they graduate have increased.

Furthermore, back in January 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report with recommendations endorsed by a who's who of deans, admissions officers and education experts representing all eight Ivies, as well as a host of other prestigious universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and even a few of the nation's top high schools.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

But now we know that about one - third of recent DC high school graduates — 900 students — had no business receiving diplomas, and that they marched across the stage last Spring because some adults changed their grades or pushed them through the farce known as «credit recovery,» in which students can receive credit for a semester by spending a few hours over a week's time in front of a computer.

It has already been well - covered by many, but I will mention a few that might have been missed: * In Texas, 51 % of high school graduates must -LSB-...]

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

A survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that more than 80 percent of midsize or larger employers look for collaboration skills in new hires - but fewer than 40 percent of them considered new graduates prepared to work in teams.

This figure is an important landmark on the road to fulfilling one of the GradNation campaign's goals: a 90 percent nationwide rate by the Class of 2020, with no school graduating fewer than 80 percent of its students on time.

Few people care more about individual students than public - school teachers do, but what's really missing in this dystopian narrative is a hearty helping of reality: 21st - century public schools, with their record numbers of graduates and expanded missions, are nothing close to the cesspools portrayed by political hyperbole.

Alarmed by few viable paths to quality, affordable degrees and eventual employment available to graduates of Boston's general high schools, Leschly and his team struck out with Match Beyond and in close partnership with CFA to disrupt the sector.

Between 2009 and 2014, enrollments in teacher preparation programs fell by 35 percent and teacher preparation graduates fell by 23 percent, meaning fewer teachers are entering the field.

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

The method has been devised by an engineering professor along with two post graduate students at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University and have stated they are already in discussion with a few manufacturers.

After leaving school, either by dropping out or graduating, people with unpaid student loan debt on average have a lower net worth and fewer financial assets at the age of 30.

By the time they graduate, they will be equipped with all the basic commands + maybe, a few special tricks.