Sentences with phrase «for nonacademic»

In her conversations with 65 students across the United States, the author got a clear idea of what high school students need to become engaged in their schools: a voice in determining course offerings; academic courses that relate to things they care about; respect for their nonacademic interests; inspiring role models; and opportunities to connect with the community.

The children spend most of their day in a special classroom and join the regular classes for nonacademic activities (like music and gym) or in academic activities in which they don't need extra help.

Early childhood teachers should weave opportunities for nonacademic skill - building and predictable routines throughout the day.

Reacting to a steep rise in the number of young biomedical scientists seeking scarce academic jobs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch programs to prepare scientists for nonacademic careers, move students through their Ph.D. s faster, and bolster the pay of postdocs.

Our four panelists that night included Andrew Morehead and Kathie Sindt, who presented «good» and «bad» faculty interviewing scenarios, and Grant Reed and Cindy Bouchez, both patent attorneys, who revealed to the audience what kinds of questions they can expect to face when interviewing for nonacademic jobs — in patent law in this instance.

You get the idea: Always adapt the format of your CV to a particular job, and this means maximising skills and minimising the academic side, if you are applying for a nonacademic job.

However, a growing number of universities, professional societies, and governmental science offices have put together forums, workshops, and online resources for students and postdocs to make themselves more competitive for nonacademic jobs.

Sure, advisers may not be in the best position to mentor students on such a wide variety of paths, but universities still owe it to their students, and to society, to provide meaningful help in preparing their Ph.D. graduates for the nonacademic roles they're likely to hold.

Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for nonacademic careers.

After doing a Ph.D. in social science at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, she took a short training course at the University of Melbourne in Australia learning to write for nonacademic audiences.

Thousands of Ph.D. holders unable to obtain faculty jobs search for other opportunities despite lack of training for nonacademic employment, while many faculty investigators struggle, often futilely, to win funding amid intense competition.

These 2 - year PSM programs, as we have often reported, prepare students for nonacademic, science - related careers through graduate work in both science and such employment - relevant fields as business, economics, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, ethics, or law.

This may bring many students into the false sense that preparing for a nonacademic career is a one - size - fits - all proposition that can be accomplished in the few weeks before graduation.

Not exact matches

There are some parallels with other nonacademic American poets — William Carlos Williams, for instance, who practiced medicine and delivered thousands of New Jersey babies while writing the American epic Paterson.

It is all the more imperative, then, that ample provision also be made for studies that are not subordinate to nonacademic interests, in order that the prevailing conditions of culture and society may not remain without challenge or alternatives.

He felt that a nonacademic «empiricism» takes the psychological and moral implications of human egotism for granted in all forms of human relations.

Interscholastic Athletics: Board Policy 2436.10 (1984) outlines the requirements for participating in nonacademic activities in grades 7 - 12.

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

In my opinion, Science's Next Wave is a good starting point for learning about nonacademic careers.

I've also found additional information from Leeds University Careers Service for postdocs considering a change of career to the commerce and industry sectors and an index of articles published in the U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education on nonacademic careers for PhDs, which includes case studies and advice.

Therefore, researchers in training need to consider and prepare for careers outside, as well as within, academia because «alternative» nonacademic careers actually represent the vast majority of career destinations for researchers nowadays.

They also worked on developing a plan for a proposed online hub or center that would collect and disseminate information and resources, including a speakers bureau of scientists in nonacademic careers, to help institutions provide better career development services.

Campbell notes that the «self - selecting» people who apply to BALSA have «an appetite for something» that graduate school and postdoc training is not providing, namely the relationships and experiences that prepare them to move into nonacademic opportunities.

For research scholars and nonacademic professionals, USEFI offers several programs related to science and technology:

Unlike LabMate, which focuses on obtaining paid short - term and permanent employment for individuals who have finished their Ph.D. s, BALSA concentrates on helping grad students and postdocs gain off - campus experience and polish their nonacademic skills.

He commends the report's emphasis on advising on nonacademic careers: «I think young women researchers — but men, too — would benefit if professors could be a little less snobby about assuming that academia should be the default first choice for all their students.»

Most Ph.D. researchers doing nonacademic work were employed by government or for - profit companies.

A study released on 1 April by the American Institutes for Research, The Nonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders, casts revealing light on which Ph.D. researchers do what kind of nonacaNonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders, casts revealing light on which Ph.D. researchers do what kind of nonacademicnonacademic work.

In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.

Knowing how your own personal goals mesh with the job you're applying for is crucial in any line of work, the nonacademics insist.

Not all scientists at the conference intend to struggle for an academic position; those interested in alternative career paths met representatives of industry and nonacademic research institutions at a series of workshops.

The new journal aims to capture the contributions of nonacademics to scientific research; according to Stephens, academic evaluation of public and patient involvement in science has been conducted for many years, but no journal was devoted to the theme, commonly known as PPI.

Besides, limited nonacademic apprenticeship programs also provide excellent opportunities for budding illustrating artists to hone their skills.

'' Young Scientists Face Demand for Broader - Based Education» discusses opportunities available to graduate students for gaining nonacademic work experience.

Biotech companies looked like a good way for scientists to excel in nonacademic careers.

Choosing a career outside of academia is daunting, and not many academic advisers know much about the positions that exist or how to be competitive for them, so I guess I'm mostly thankful for postgraduates in nonacademic positions for sharing their knowledge!

Although the BLS report cautions that applicants for full - time college faculty positions will still face «keen competition,» job prospects should improve, especially in fields such as computer science and engineering, in which attractive nonacademic job opportunities are available.

Moving On in Your Career — A guide for academic researchers and postgraduates, Lynda Ali & Barbara Graham, Routledgefalmer, (ISBN 0 -415-17870-3) which contains one of the best examples of a nonacademic CV I've seen, and University Researchers and the Job Market for yet more examples and advice.

Well - qualified and savvy Ph.D. scientists could very likely land substantially more lucrative offers on their own, but the program serves a useful purpose by aiming to ease the way to a first industrial position for scientists unfamiliar with or intimidated by the nonacademic job market.

They've formed an organization called Future of Research to pressure universities to tell grad students about their prospects for jobs and the track records of previous Ph.D. s, and to give them training in nonacademic careers.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

EN: What are the nonacademic benefits of desegregation, particularly for poor and minority students?

The nonacademic passions, social intrigues and fads we would dismiss are among the things students value and, ironically, are a springboard for learning.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood,...

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Help policymakers recognize the fundamental nonacademic skills children need for success throughout their lives

Of the seventeen states that submitted their ESSA plans to the U.S. Department of Education last May, for example, fifteen said they plan to use student chronic absenteeism and / or attendance as an indicator of school quality, and a number are using it as their only «nonacademic» indicator.

In 1928 nonacademic courses accounted for about 33 percent of the classes taken by U.S. high - school students; by 1961 that number had increased to 43 percent.