Sentences with phrase «for school employers»

Although predictions of teacher shortages have been heard for years, several factors may have led to a tough current job market for school employers.

Not exact matches

Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.

«They were banking on their employers paying for their degrees and then saw that funding revoked,» says Séan Corbishley, the schools's director of EMBA and custom programming at the school, adding that mining firms are looking to save money.

Monitoring how walloped employees are feeling by weather or cyclical events is one of the functions of measuring workplace mood so closely: by taking the pulse of a workplace and offering feedback, employers can develop happiness - boosting policies and practices (flexible hours in September, for instance, could help parents deal with the start of the school year).

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

That shift was also evident at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's Kenan - Flagler Business School, where 18 students went into tech, up from 12 in 2013, said David Vogel, who leads career development and employer relations for the undergraduate business program.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

Researchers such as Nancy Rothbard at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School say that in tough times, it's easier for an employer to roll back a perk than cut pay.

At most schools, there has been consistent employer interest in hiring for entry - level consulting and finance - related jobs, especially those in investment banking.

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

WORKERS may be hiding back injuries from their employers for fear of losing their jobs, says Curtin University of Technology physiotherapy school senior ergonomics lecturer Leon Straker.

In one year, Handshake added 60 new school partnerships (including Stanford, Cornell, Wake Forest, University of Chicago, University of Michigan and many more), 300,000 new registered students, 35,000 new registered employers (including 80 % of the Fortune 100 companies), and over 300k job applications (60 % of which are for full time positions).

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

There's no reason why most people's health care should be dependent on where they work or go to school, and dependent on what their employer or school choose, or don't choose, for them.

The school is also dropping its health insurance plan for students because the new health care law requires employers to provide more robust coverage, making it more expensive, said Tom Sofio, a spokesman for the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

The survey report provides insight into the skills that employers need so that schools can better prepare high school and college students for entry into the workforce.

«Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Three miles down the road from the high school is another Marysville big employer, the Ohio Reformatory for Women prison, opened in 1916 and home to about 2,000 women, including Donna Roberts, the only women on Ohio's death row for having her husband murdered in 2001.

Conversely, schools want to make sure that the candidate they are hiring does not leave them for greener pastures, so attaching a buyout that the coach (or, in actuality, his new employer) must pay can help protect the school.

A lot of the foreigners here on business or with embassies have their employers pay for school, but my husband's employer, the US government, but not State department, doesn't.

For the Bring Dad to School Day, each participating father received a certificate (this was mentioned in the publicity), which they could show to their employer if they took the day off work.

For the Bring Dad to School Day, some fathers negotiated time off work with their employer as paid leave.

I strongly feel that need for school - schedule - friendly employers, and so I strive to become one myself... Pleasant River Soap Co., LLC will be a cool «mom - world!»

develop a strategy to promote training for the school food workforce more broadly and find ways to encourage employers to invest in their frontline school food workforce.

What employers do look for is an extensive set of people skills: the ability to listen and communicate; to think critically and imaginatively; to read, write, and figure; and many other capabilities that schools are increasingly neglecting.»

To qualify for leave under the FMLA, an employee must have worked for over 12 months for the state or federal government, a public school or private employer with more than 50 employees.

Proof of income or school for both legal guardians, if in the home (Examples are: Pay stubs for 1 month, most recent W - 2 or 1040 Tax form, SSI or TANF documentation, Letter from Employer, Letter from School, School schedule), or a notarized Statement of No Ischool for both legal guardians, if in the home (Examples are: Pay stubs for 1 month, most recent W - 2 or 1040 Tax form, SSI or TANF documentation, Letter from Employer, Letter from School, School schedule), or a notarized Statement of No ISchool, School schedule), or a notarized Statement of No ISchool schedule), or a notarized Statement of No Income.

In papers submitted by the UK Government last year in the case and seen by the BHA, the Government attempted to argue that there is no breach of EU law because «if a teacher brought a claim against a school (on the basis that the school, as an employer, had discriminated against them in their remuneration, for example), then the court or tribunal would consider the legislation in this wider context.

It's annoyed employers no - end, but parents who have lost January wages (because schools won't accept kids for fear of snowy days affecting their truancy scores) are livid.

«Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are — and I quote — worth less than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that high school graduates are fully prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.

«As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current law for at least three years,» reads the letter, which was released by the Partnership for New York City.

The law also included tax credits for employers who hire seasonal employees ages 16 to 19 who are still in school.

«The changes to exam grading have created huge uncertainty for pupils, teachers, parents and employers which will be difficult for schools to manage.

But we call on the employers to get back into talks to agree a fair deal for local government and school support workers.»

They should be ensuring school leavers are equipped with the skills they need for work, including the 50 % who don't choose to go to university; that employers are given more control over the funding for training and skills; and by ensuring that young people who have been unemployed for longer than a year are guaranteed a job - so that no young person is allowed to fall completely out of touch with the world of work.

He defended the decision to build schools and hospitals «when the sun was shining», joked that his local constituency newspaper was the only one to report him impartially and suggested Mr Blair's 700 - page memoirs were an employer's reference paper for a new job.

«This proposal will lower the status of vocational qualifications at a time when employers are demanding that schools leavers have skills relevant for entering the workplace.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.

«We'll also begin hearing from constituents and groups with their reaction to the proposed budget, including our schools, health care facilities, local governments, not - for - profits and employers,» Little said in a statement.

In addition, Vanderhoef called for other future initiatives which included tuition fixes and employer incentives to accommodate returning vets, and an end to division in the troubled East Ramapo Central School District.

Some employers, such as IBM and the Defense Department, are also helping retirees prepare for second careers as high school teachers.

In recent years, the availability of assistive technologies has grown markedly, a development spurred in part by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which requires schools and employers to make reasonable accommodations for students, job applicants, and employees with disabilities.

Some firms will pay for law school tuition, but even if you can locate such an arrangement, your employer / sponsor will probably expect you to work as you study, which will delay the completion of your degree.

At the same time, governments and institutions (prodded by employers) are raising standards for what students should know at every stage of school.

«With reference pricing, the employer or insurer will make a contribution towards paying for the prescription drug chosen by the patient, and the patient will pay the remainder,» said lead author James C. Robinson, director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology at the School of Public Health.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.