Sentences with phrase «gap year showed»

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According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every year showing the gender pay gap.

While some might sniff that Victoria's Secret is to lingerie what Gap (GPS) is to haute couture, the Fashion Show remains a cultural touchstone (though a shrinking one: last year 9.1 million people watched the show, down from 9.7 million a year earliShow remains a cultural touchstone (though a shrinking one: last year 9.1 million people watched the show, down from 9.7 million a year earlishow, down from 9.7 million a year earlier.)

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

A new study shows that the racial gap in jails has narrowed considerably in recent years — but not in the way we expect or hope.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

All organisations with more than 250 employees must publish data showing their gender pay gaps by April next year.

New for 2017, the packaging trade show is once again being organised alongside Logistics & Distribution after a three - year gap.

It also helps that Godwin has shown promise — unless he has a regression this year, I think he'll fill the gap that Desean will make when he's cut.

I think the signing of both of these players would be a great boost for us for the coming season Cavani has undeniable class but can't see Wenger going for a striker this summer considering that we only bought Welbeck not even a year ago, I think we should go for Marco Reus as our now customary (or so they would have us believe) marquee signing of the summer and promote from within to fill some of the other gaps in our squad, except for maybe CDM as we lack rotation in this area, but our very own Le Coq shows what promotion from within can achieve, he is just one of many players to come through the ranks to command a spot in our starting XI, such as Bellerin those 2 seem like almost the first names on the team sheet nowadays who would have thought that 1 year ago or even 6 months ago?

last night i saw on Sky sports Jamie Carragher show / demonstrate an interesting flaw Arsenals game there was huge gap between our attacking and defense at least 20 yards where no man land which allowed the opposition to counter attack with no resistance until well in to our own half our defense overwhelmed and on back foot while our midfield and attackers still in oppositions half, the reason we are better then last year is because of Coq and rapid speed of Belerin saved us but what with Coq out Ramsy loving being a forward we will have problems tomorrow night with the Greeks who love to counter attack, someone has to drop back when Ramsy is on his attack ’s

Europe is the goal for them this year, that despite showing the Europa League next to no respect in their recent forages into Europe's second tier competition, but already they find themselves six - points adrift of the top - six and so a fourth successive match without a win could enlarge that gap further, with the Villains having drawn one and lost two of their last three Premier League fixtures.

It shouldn't be a surprise given the determination he showed to ensure Cork City closed the gap on Dundalk then overhauled them last year.

Research has shown that teens who take a gap year benefit from having a fresh perspective and an energized focus on their education when they start college.

Now Treasury figures have shown that the gap is expected to widen further over the next four years, after increasing by over 15 % last year.

The Cuomo administration's Division of Budget released a quarterly spending plan update Friday morning that still shows out - year budget gaps for the next three fiscal years.

Figures released by the Treasury yesterday showed the gap between spending per head in England compared to Scotland and Wales grew by 15 % over the last year, meaning # 1,624 more public money is spent on the average Scot than the average Englishman.

Nixon, in an interview last year on NBC's «Today» show, blamed Cuomo for what she called the widening gap between the richest and poorest schools.

The governor's office last month released new figures showing a gap of about $ 4.4 billion for the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Current estimates «show a potential» for a budget gap $ 689 million in the coming fiscal year, which begins April 1.

Whenever the next update comes out, it probably will show a worsening FY 2018 budget gap, and perhaps even a true potential deficit for the current year — depending on whether Cuomo forces a post-election special session based on his power to cut spending in the wake of big enough drops in federal revenue.

The charts below illustrate the deteriorating fiscal outlook as measured by the traditional budget gaps calculation (showing the growth in next year's gap, from $ 1.8 billion in April plan to $ 4 billion in the July plan) and the governor's alternative measure, assuming spending is held to 2 percent (showing a flip from a $ 692 million «surplus» as of April to an $ 841 million gap as of July).

But three years on, figures published by the Liberal Democrats show the gap is actually widening.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Despite years of effort to help American seniors with high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes get their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar under control, new research shows wide gaps between older people of different ethnic backgrounds in all three of these key health measures.

My second test showed that I had closed the gap by 17 years: At age 49, I had the telomeres of a 52 - year - old woman.

When I first started this blog, I mentioned that «public dating» wasn't completely new to me... During my Gap Year, I starred on my Mum's favourite show... Cilla Black's Blind Date.

And at the start of my Gap Year, I applied to go on the show — mainly to give my Mum a giggle.

Statistics were also compiled concerning education in the israeli ethiopian community, showing that the rate of those eligible for high school matriculation certificates has risen by six percent in the last ten years — thus reducing the gap between ethiopian and native israeli students, whose matriculation eligibility rate stood at 55 % in 2008.

I was on my Gap Year, and my excuse was that my Mum loved the show!

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

The second factor is that the budget is so much less than the first movie ($ 17M versus $ 27M, and that's not counting for inflation over the 10 - year gap), and boy does it show.

The show «explores the generation gap between two women who are only 7 years apart when a single, chaotic, 27 year - old moves in with her more responsible, 34 - year - old, married sister.»

Figure 1a shows the evolution of the gap in years of completed schooling by age 24 between children who, between the ages of 14 and 16, never lived with a single parent and those who lived with a single parent at least one of the three years.

Tests of adult reading ability show no U.S. gender gap in reading by 25 years of age.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Studies have shown that only about 25 percent of today's teachers produce enough progress — well over a year's worth of learning growth in a year's time — to help students close achievement gaps and leap ahead.

While our previous report found that the black - white gap in total debt tripled after graduation, Table 3 below shows that with longer follow up the gap more than quadruples, from $ 10,301 at graduation to $ 43,372 at the end of the 12 - year follow - up.

The first study showing illusory improvement in achievement gaps — the largely bogus «Texas miracle» — was published only ten years after that.

The Li and Scott - Clayton study does indeed show that 1) the black - white debt gap is in large part due to greater graduate school enrollment and borrowing among blacks, and 2) blacks are much more likely to attend a for - profit graduate school, a sector in which black enrollment grew rapidly in recent years.

As the figure below shows, the gap between Australia and Singapore, the world's highest performing country in Year 8 mathematics, widened between 1995 and 2015.

That same year, the CBS News television show 60 Minutes featured KIPP, which drew the attention of Doris and Donald Fisher, founders of Gap, Inc..

«So while it is good to see that primary schools» hard work is likely to yield improvements in GCSE English and maths in the next five years, the slow progress in tackling the overall GCSE attainment gap shows there is a lot still to do.»

They show that, for fourth graders, the black - white test score gap had, in the 12 years prior to the passage of NCLB, opened up by 7 points.

The beginning of the century again saw a small closing of racial and ethnic achievement gaps, but over the over the last eight years NAEP shows little movement, though no increases.

The data shows that the attainment gaps within the most able 10 per cent of pupils is even bigger for girls than boys, which stands at about three years in science and reading.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

Three - quarters of school heads believe the attainment gap has started to close and almost all expect progress in the next five years as a result of national attainment funding, new research has shown.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

ACER's research shows that achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students can be the equivalent of three years of schooling, and that many of these gaps exist at the time children begin school.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.