Sentences with phrase «growing number of skilled»

Fortunately, a growing number of skilled and qualified health coaches and nutritionists are poised to fill the gap.

Thanks to the growing number of skills available for Alexa, you can make use of Amazon Echo countless ways around the home.

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The number of industry - specific social networks is growing — and so are the opportunities to search for new gigs and show off your skills to the right people.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

conclude: «Growing numbers of women are working together to create new solutions to the old problems of poverty, famine and racial prejudice, adding not only their energies and skills but also different perspectives on these problems».

A growing number of mission organisations are discovering that Christians trained in business skills can make a great contribution to cross cultural mission....

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

There is a growing number of training initiatives geared toward providing science diplomacy knowledge and skills to both the scientific community and international relations professionals.

A small but growing number of scientists are training others in the hard and soft skills of managing a laboratory

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

Given the dearth of formal training programs, the growing number of workshops and short courses is a good way to not only hone technical skills, but also network with the industry leaders eager to train students in the field.

Today, Janssens is one of a small but growing number of scientists who train others in the skills of managing a laboratory.

An increasing number of opportunities can be found in industry, where the demand for interdisciplinary education and soft skills is growing.

A growing number of hospitals are now offering their doctors resilience training and teaching them coping skills, in the hopes of reducing burnout from dealing with death and sickness on a daily basis.

Creativity, problem solving skills, and tolerance of others also get higher ratings in a growing number of studies showing workplace wellness is worth it.

You initially start with only two recruits but as the game progresses, your numbers slowly grow because everyone starts hearing of your heroics and leadership skills.

There are now a growing number of organisations, initiatives, and support networks which have been developed to offer teachers, parents and children new ways to build their digital skills.

This special report, «Joining Forces,» examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

Core to the argument of their research, Levy and Murnane contend that the jobs growing in numbers share two general skills that computers can not replicate: expert thinking and complex communication.

Schools don't yet have reliable measures for how to develop and assess so - called «noncognitive» skills like these, although a number of researchers and educators are working on approaches, reflecting a growing recognition of their importance not just on labor market outcomes but on educational attainment.

We are delighted to have received a record number of entries to the competition this year; a reflection of the ever growing importance of coding as a critical skill to support innovation.

Northumberland College has identified a number of growing industries in and around the local region, which will be facing skills shortages over the coming years.

This special report examines examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

We are delighted to have received a record number of entries to the competition this year; a reflection of the ever - growing importance of coding as a critical skill to support innovation.»

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

While a growing number of studies have evaluated K - 12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values.

The release of several national studies last week highlighted what many now consider the most pressing concern facing American education: the growing number of students «at risk» of leaving school prior to graduation or without the skills needed to get a job.

Immigrants continue to arrive in LA's classrooms with no English skills, and the number of homeless students grew by 50 percent to over 17,000 last year.

Moreover, a growing number of employers are reporting among new hires a lack of the social - emotional skills needed to succeed in the workplace.

Student achievement, particularly in math and science, is crucial to our country's capacity for innovation and future economic growth, yet a growing number of today's students lack foundational knowledge and skills in these subjects.

As the number of public charter schools in Georgia continues to grow, so does the need for governing board members with the critical skills required to steer charter schools from mission development, through petition submission, to opening day.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

As students grow more skilled, however, teachers can challenge them with a number of samples of similar quality to force the students to become more critical and reflective.

Atlanta, GA — As the number of public charter schools in Georgia continues to grow, so does the need for governing board members with the critical skills required to steer charter schools from mission development, through petition submission, to opening day.

As a result, a growing number of related programs, apps, and computer skill - and - drill are flooding the market as profiteers and market - savvy snake oil salesmen stand ready to cash in.

A growing number of research studies — including ACT's own research — have confirmed that SEL skills, sometimes known as behavioral or noncognitive skills, are essential for success in education and career.

Also, because the population of English language learners is growing much faster than the numbers of well - trained specialists in ELL instruction, most schools will need to leverage their existing expertise by encouraging teachers to learn from and collaborate with skilled colleagues.

«With Brexit looming ever nearer and a growing skills crisis, the continued failure to recruit the required number of teachers to science subjects like Physics and Biology grows ever more glaring.

An industry - led institution, the College addresses a growing demand for higher level digital skills in the UK and is one of a small number of national skill colleges announced by the then Prime Minister David Cameron in December 2014.

This report highlights the growing gap between the number of middle - skill jobs in California and the amount of appropriately skilled workers to fill them, especially in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

A small but growing number of early childhood programs in Michigan, Mississippi, and around the world are using the Essential Skill Inventories as a PK to Grade 3 competency framework.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

They attributed their success this year to a number of factors, including an increase in skills, such as improved writing and marketing, more books published, and sales of backlist and front list that grow each year.

Growing numbers of highly skilled technical staff leaving the profession lead to lower levels of patient care and increased patient - to - staff ratios.

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

«With [Shadow of the Colossus], the studio grew in both number of people and skill level.

But actually, with increasingly specialised skills sought after, new technologies and a growing number of developers in the UK, there are more opportunities than ever before.

The growing concrete jungle of American cities, complete with its towering skyscraper architecture, attracted the technical and artistic skills of a number of talented American architects, including such diverse figures as Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959), Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969), Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969)- champion of the «International Style», and leader of the Second Chicago School of Architecture - the world famous firm of architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and their revolutionary designer Fazlur Khan (1929 - 82), as well as Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005), I.M.Pei (b. 1917) and Frank O. Gehry (b. 1929).

Not only would this help to fill the growing skills gap here in the UK, but it would increase the number of strong female role models across the business community.