Sentences with phrase «from disadvantaged backgrounds»

The program is designed for students from disadvantaged background who are interested in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health - related research.

The negative outcomes are significantly more likely for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Its real purpose is to help lift the educational performance of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, so closing the shameful gap in life chances in our country.

I can understand when this situation arises with students from disadvantaged backgrounds who may not have had early access to technology.

The programme aims to increase the number of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education by 2020.

This program is open to high - achieving undergraduate students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds or groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

That approach is based on the results of many earlier studies that have found attending preschool helps kids from disadvantaged backgrounds start kindergarten on a stronger academic footing.

The challenge will be to make sure that students from disadvantaged backgrounds get the same access and have the same opportunities to learn with technology as more privileged kids have.

More young people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university than at any time in the history of our country.

This change will benefit over 15,000 learners from disadvantaged backgrounds.

While the issue has garnered less attention than the plight of women and ethnic minorities in academia, a few initiatives have been launched to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds enter higher education.

A more activist outreach to strong candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds might be necessary.

And since many students who fail come from disadvantaged backgrounds affected by poverty, there is a pattern that unfolds.

The $ 1.8 million grant will help the college recruit and retain nursing professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed.

There are also special programs for scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds.

It will also ensure that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds continue to receive significant additional funding to overcome entrenched barriers to their success.

Many of these charter - school attendees from disadvantaged backgrounds are reaching high levels of academic proficiency, enabling them to make their way through college and beyond.

Second, whatever problems colleges have in enrolling and educating students from disadvantaged backgrounds appear to be driven by issues of class more than by race.

He said in 2014 the rate of students from disadvantaged backgrounds applying to enter higher education was «at its highest level ever».

SEL can help students from disadvantaged backgrounds overcome the cognitive and emotional scars they suffer as a result of their environment.

Yet too many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall behind soon after they start school and never catch up.

And the report raises concerns about the gap in school attainment between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their better - off peers.

Evidence suggests that they often take far less than their share of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In the current high - stakes system it is young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are most likely to lose out.

But college poses many interpersonal and logistical challenges, particularly to students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and whose dropout rates have been estimated as high as 80 to 90 percent.

Loan repayment programs are also available to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who choose to work in any area of research.

The report highlights that institutions taking the challenge of providing high - quality STEM education to students from disadvantaged backgrounds more often than not are doing so with fewer resources than elite institutions.

«But even where places may be available, too many parents and children, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, face selection by stealth because of the Government's failure to ensure compliance with the fair admissions code.

Senator Grassley said, «Federal education policy tends to overlook high potential students, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds,» Grassley said.

The project will extend the evidence on the efficacy of the intervention from two previous randomized efficacy trials of the KITS Program with special needs populations to examine the impacts of the intervention on the broader population of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in general education.

Dr. Scarth is skilled at working with individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Dr Lee Elliot Major, director of research at the Sutton Trust, said the figures suggested that grammars were not enrolling as many academically able pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds as they could do.

A lot of gifted children from disadvantaged backgrounds don't do as well as they should in the education system», he said.

The move was reportedly part of plans to broaden MI6's recruitment pool, amid fears that prospective recruits from disadvantaged backgrounds may not consider a career in the service.

«My advice to researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds unwelcome in upper - caste networks is to find collaborators who are supportive to buffer the harshness,» she says.

Staff from Hays offices across the country will undertake a number of fundraising activities throughout the next twelve months with aims to raise # 60,000 to fund an employability programme for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds struggling to get their foot on the work ladder.

«Northern pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve lower attainment levels than disadvantaged pupils elsewhere in the country (1.3 points below the national average and 6.5 points below their peers in London).»

But if you want to halve the achievement gap in GCSEs, all you need are six more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds passing per school.

The premise behind Educare is that kids from disadvantaged backgrounds need two things in order to eliminate that gap: At age three and four, they need a high - quality preschool that provides them with a solid grounding in letters and numbers as well as a stable base of interpersonal, motivational, and psychological capacities.

When it came to explaining why there was a social mobility problem in the legal profession, respondents who think something is preventing candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds from getting law training contracts revealed that a large barrier is their presentation at interview — respondents allocated almost a quarter (23 %) of their votes to this.

The new polling also finds there are big socio - economic gaps in access to extra-curricular activities, with pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds less likely to take up activities than their better - off peers (46 per cent compared to 66 per cent).

Founded by Jay and Jade Blades, this enterprising group trains and employs young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by restoring and upcycling salvaged furniture.

He concluded: «We are committed to overturning a culture of low expectations that for too long discouraged capable pupils, predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds, from studying the core academic subjects that open doors to their future.»

White boys from disadvantaged backgrounds did the worst, and among those from poor neighbourhoods some 71 % did not continue their academic education after GCSEs.

«Learners from disadvantaged backgrounds tend to have parents who are less likely to be involved in their education and more likely to have a negative perception of education.

The second category is «Exemplary Improving,» in which schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds demonstrate the most progress in improving student achievement levels as measured by state assessments or nationally - normed tests.