Sentences with phrase «high number of university»

A report published last autumn points out that the Swedish labour market's need for such a high number of university graduates has been overestimated.

Chief Obasanjo further stated that having a specialised University of Education showed «how serious we are in this country, on the issue of education, especially when the University Education is located in Ogun State, which has the highest number of Universities in Nigeria.

Yet it seems that as well as all the obvious effects occurring; national cuts, increased unemployment rate, higher numbers of university applicants etc, there have also been a few less expected outcomes, like the increase of older people seeking internships.

Despite high numbers of university leavers, employers struggle to fill graduate roles.

The United Kingdom continues to attract students from overseas because, when compared with other European countries, it has the highest number of Universities within the top 400 ranked globally.

Not exact matches

According to Emma Seppala — science director for Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education — there are a number of things you can do to replenish your mental energy that don't involve drinking more coffee or high - caffeine sodas.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

An international team of experts led by Newcastle University has shown that organic crops are up to 60 % higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally - grown ones.

This number is lower at a few other highly selective colleges (Wesleyan University is just 48 percent and Princeton University is 60 percent) and higher at others (Vanderbilt University and California Institute of Technology are both around 66 percent).

Student musicians from Worcester State University and a number of area high schools will also perform.

Researchers at the University of Chicago looked at the predictive value of a student's freshman year of high school as it relates to a number of future outcomes.

Significantly, the data showed that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not, as a later study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [4] predicted, lead to higher force impacts during games.

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - year high.

But as the Government has trebled tuition fees, the number of people applying higher education in the creative arts at university fallen by 16 per cent.

«The expansion of places for AAB students will lead to an even higher number of students from privileged backgrounds at our most elite institutions,» said University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvaHigher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvahigher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

But that number includes students who will not end up going to SUNY, or the City University of New York, or the community colleges that, together, make up the state's public higher education system.

It is a particularly sad fact that over the past three decades, in spite of the increase in higher education, the number of engineering graduates from our universities has decreased.

The number of non-toxicology procedures increased 2 per cent to 3.39 million, reflecting the higher numbers of procedures carried out in universities (+7 %), particularly fundamental research.

In response to the high number of sexual assaults on college and university campuses, Governor Andrew Cuomo has launched the Enough is Enough campaign.

Opponents of free higher education cite «record numbers of working class students» attending university, but what good is that when eight percent drop out just like I did?

Data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University show that the number of women running for higher level office has increased over time.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have consistently argued that the high cost of living is the number one barrier to accessing university.

«I'm surprised at how bad and how high that number is,» said Arthur Wheaton, the director of Western New York Labor and Environmental Programs for The Worker Institute at Cornell University.

Beyond the governor's office, investigators have subpoenaed agencies that regulate solar power and implement solar initiatives, the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which has been the guiding force in a number of state - backed high - tech ventures, and Empire State Development Corp., the state's economic - development arm.

Clegg has a 15,284 majority, although the seat includes a high number of public sector managers and students from the city's two universities and three teaching hospitals.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

In 2013, Toshihide Tsuda, an environmental epidemiologist at Okayama University in Japan, started presenting analyses at international conferences claiming the number of thyroid cancers in the Fukushima screening was unusually high.

«The high detection rate found at this bright level suggests that there must be a significant number of systems containing fainter dust, undetectable in our survey, but still much brighter than the Solar System's zodiacal dust,» explains Olivier Absil, co-author of the paper, from the University of Liège.

Washington University in St. Louis ranked first in immunology with only a third as many papers as number two Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had the highest relative impact in molecular biology and genetics with a fraction of Harvard's publication rate.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

However, Stephen Kelly, the University of Southampton PhD student who ran the model simulations, said «There was a high level of variation between different scenarios, depending on a number of factors.

There have been many studies looking at the number of people affected by anxiety disorders and the groups that are at highest risk, and in an attempt to synthesise the various studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Public Health carried out a global review of systematic reviews.

Flooded farmland has already forced thousands of Bangladeshis to higher ground, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of the numbers of people who will need to move because of climate change in the coming decade, according to a report released by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the United Nations University and CARE International today.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

It must be sensitive enough to highlight potential problems, but not so broad that it generates high numbers of false - positive results, said Dr. Dean Foti, a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of British Columbia.

Which universities in Britain have the output with the highest impact factor, which reflects the number of citations per publication?

A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), and the Prokhorov General Physics Institute have proposed a theoretical model that explains the unexpectedly high values of the linear magnetoelectric effect in BiFeO3 (bismuth ferrite) that have been observed in a number of experiments.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

«The higher incidence of prolonged problems among women has been associated with a number of gender differences including physiological differences in the laryngeal system, differences in the endocrine system, and differences in pulmonary usage,» said Eric Hunter, the lead investigator and Associate Chair of Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the Michigan State University.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»

But Bob Snow of the University of Oxford in England and his colleagues say the number should be higher, that 515 million people are infected with the mosquito - borne Plasmodium falciparum parasite each year.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

A 45 per cent rise in diagnostic imaging tests ordered by Australian GPs is being driven by increasing GP visits, a rising number of problems managed at consultations and a higher likelihood that GPs order imaging tests for these problems, according to a new University of Sydney study released today.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

«The number one thing parents can do to prevent injuries related to high chairs is to use the safety restraint system in the chair,» said Dr. Smith, also a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

A team led by University of California, Santa Barbara plant ecologist Shelley Crausbay is studying high - elevation cloud forests that provide habitat for a number of rare birds, most of which are endangered.

Indeed, lab studies have shown that as many as 90 % of ticks feeding on an infected mouse pick up the bug, an «extremely high number,» says disease ecologist Dustin Brisson of the University of Pennsylvania.