Sentences with phrase «from ethnic minority groups»

Figures vary but with approximately three quarters of the children and young people in care being placed with foster carers, we still need more foster carers to look after specific groups of children such as teenagers, children from ethnic minority groups, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

Risk factors for prediabetes include having a large waist or being overweight; being of Black or South Asian origin; having a family history of the condition; and being over 40 years old, or over 25 if you're Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority group.

Not exact matches

When recognition of that complexity shapes hiring, it opens transformative opportunities to people from groups underrepresented in top professions: ethnic minorities, stay - at - home parents, working - class kids, veterans.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

At 2 % and 3 % they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Racism in the UK is less dramatic, but perhaps no less present, and is revealed in the numbers of people from black and ethnic minority groups in certain jobs and professions.

«In particular, Christians from indigenous people groups suffer a double discrimination as both religious and ethnic minorities.»

At 2 % to 5 %, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

Such a concern is valid, but it's also part of a larger concern for the denominations, While only 3 percent of those surveyed were from racial and ethnic minority groups, that figure reflects the realities in the denominations.

More churches should be led by female priests and those «who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups», the new Bishop of London has said.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

(vi) engage particularly with groups of fathers who previously have been excluded from services and whose children are at risk of poor outcomes — including young fathers and black and minority ethnic fathers;

«A recent national survey of women's experience of maternity care in the UK reported that women from black and minority ethnic groups were more likely to recognise their pregnancy later, access care later, and consequently book later for antenatal care than were white women.»

The main groups of people missing from electoral registers are be found amongst the poor, the young, the rootless, ethnic minorities and those avoiding debt collectors.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

Only six per cent of management jobs in the UK are held by individuals from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.

The 2000 Arusha Accord, which ended Burundi's ethnic civil war, stipulates that 60 percent of members of parliament be from the majority Hutu ethnic group and 40 percent from the minority Tutsis.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today launched a consultation on whether the current rules should be changed, arguing that certain groups such as young men and people from ethnic minorities are overrepresented on the database.

In my area the Labour Council has actively connived, away from public view, with religious groups to found new faith schools thinking that it will prop up its gradually declining support from minority ethnic groups.

Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

These included young people, men, people from minority ethnic groups, those in the military and health professions.

Several ethnic minority groups maintain hundreds of sacred forests, which range from a few acres to thousands of square miles, as part of their religion.

Additionally, a workforce with a better representation of ethnic minorities will help attract more students from these groups in particular.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

It's this bigger - picture compassion, born of an impulse to place the unique struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities in conversation with each other, that elevates «Tangerine» from a raggedy little group portrait to a generous and surprisingly hopeful vision of humanity.

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

The treatment group was 5.3 % more likely to be from a minority racial or ethnic group, 27.7 % for the treatment group versus 22.4 % for the control group.

In 2008, 44 percent of students were from minority ethnic groups.

Students from minority ethnic or linguistic groups were also at increased risk of falling behind than those using Facebook or chat sites each day.

The «5 Cities Project», launched by the Department for Education will see the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) work with partners in the Greater Manchester, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Leicester areas to promote the take - up of apprenticeships among under - represented groups, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

One aspect of the American Association of University Women's report on how schools educate girls that has elicited praise from the philanthropic community is its inclusion of research on girls who belong to ethnic and racial minority groups.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

Those groups include racial and ethnic minorities and students who are from low - income families, speak limited English, or have disabilities — as long as enough students in each category meet minimum group sizes set by each...

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

The percentage of students in public schools who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group increased from 22 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 2006, with a corresponding decrease from 78 percent to 57 percent in the percentage of white students enrolled (Planty et al., 2008).

The No Child law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, requires testing in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and reporting of scores for groups of students including racial and ethnic minorities.

Addressing the disproportionate representation of students from racial and ethnic minority groups in special education: A resource document.

Council membership is for anyone interested in working to support students from ethnic and racial minority groups.

They've got to look at how all kids are doing at the school overall, but also how specific groups of students are doing — like students with disabilities, those from low - income families, non-native English speakers, and every major racial and ethnic minority.

They warn that if adopted the curriculum may alienate pupils from ethnic and religious minority groups.

According to federally funded research, students who are living in poverty, are learning English as a second language, and are from racial and ethnic minority groups are 250 percent less likely to be identified for, and served in gifted programs, even when they perform at a comparable level to children in the program.

She is especially interested in understanding these processes among adolescents from groups that have been historically stigmatized in school settings, such as racial and ethnic minority adolescents.

The Casey Foundation has selected a new group of evaluators and researchers to join its network of evaluation experts from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups.

Addressing the disproportionate representation of students from ethnic and racial minority groups in special education: A resource document.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.

The decor of each room is based on one of the country's ethnic minority groups and it vividly showcases the tradition and diversity with bold accents, from naturally dyed indigo Tai Lue throw pillows, to finely hand - embroidered Yao bed runners to gleaming silver beaded Akha headdresses on the table.

Given the way concentrations fall within the city, children from more deprived groups and ethnic minorities are more adversely affected, turning improving air quality into a question of equality and fairness.