Sentences with phrase «higher education courses»

A factsheet from Gingerbread outlining the main types of financial support available for higher education courses

Elspeth, who also sits on the Board of Bright Light Relationship Counselling, has a background in academic teaching and, as Director of Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS), led a team working with staff in local schools and universities to support young people disadvantaged by economic, social or cultural factors into higher education courses.

HECS - style loans expanded to higher education courses other than degrees, and to institutions other than public universities

Make a date to come to our next Open Event and find out more about our huge range of Further and Higher Education courses.

Discover our career - focused Higher Education courses, and how you can progress onto a degree with us at the Bradford College University Centre.

How on earth do you manage to obtain a training contract at an MC firm yet fail a module on one of the easiest higher education courses known to man?

[1] It offers further and higher education courses in fine art, graphic design, interior design, spatial design and textile design up to PhD level.

In the afternoon, the Higher Education & Careers Fair will give students the opportunity to meet undergraduate student representatives from a wide range of Art History and Creative Arts higher education courses across the UK.

Lots of potential for higher education courses as well.

The foundation also supported early - college high schools that put students into higher education courses after 10th grade.

Once high school is completed, Tennessee students can use any remaining funds to pay for higher education courses.

The farm has hosted and led educational visits from agricultural colleges as well as further education and higher education courses including business, tourism, farming and the environment.

Over the last three years I have focused my instructional design efforts on a specific context: higher education courses delivered via a learning management system (LMS) by subject matter experts (SMEs).

The move has led to the creation of a college that today caters for more than 20,000 pupils studying for a wide range of vocational courses that lead to BTEC, NVQ, City & Guilds and other specialist qualifications, as well as higher education courses validated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.

«One Awards Access to Higher Education courses have touched thousands of lives over its 20 - year history, and will continue to provide valuable opportunities for adult learners to enable them to achieve their desired careers.»

Three - year degree courses and shorter higher education courses such as full - time diplomas were of value to employers, Blatch insisted.

Another fallacy is that students entering higher education courses in physics and engineering are poorer in quality than students in other subjects.

The latest round of UCAS figures shows 325,000 students applied for higher education courses between January and March this year, up 34,000 on the same period last year.

«This programme is designed to raise their aspirations and help them secure admission to the most demanding higher education courses and the most competitive universities.

Prisoners» Education Trust (PET) research has found that those who engage in higher education courses are 25 % less likely to reoffend.

«Oregon's higher education course placement agreements are a strong step forward in high school to college alignment, signaling to high school students that their hard work on the Smarter Balanced assessments and rigorous coursework in the 12th grade provide concrete benefits once they get to campus.»

The company currently serves over 3.3 million users worldwide and represents 90 % of US core higher education course material.

All these figures come from the AAP's Annual StatShot Survey, which is «a yearly statistical survey of publishing's estimated size and scope» and looks at trade (fiction / non - fiction / religious), k - 12 instructional materials, higher education course materials, university presses and professional books.

Revenues for PreK - 12 instructional materials were down by 4.4 % and Higher Education course materials were down 7.7 % through Nov. compared to the same timeframe in 2014.

«Educational Materials were down 13.0 % for PreK - 12 Instructional Materials and 81.6 % for Higher Education Course Materials, in April 2016 vs. April 2015.

Revenues for PreK - 12 instructional materials were down by 4.7 % and Higher Education course materials were down 6.7 % through Oct. compared to the same timeframe in 2014.

StatShot tracks publisher revenue on a monthly basis for about 1,200 publishers of trade (fiction / non - fiction / religious), PreK - 12 instructional materials, higher education course materials, university presses and professional books.

Revenues for Higher Education course materials were up by $ 92 million (24.3 %) to $ 470.2 million in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the first quarter in 2016.

Much of the growth is attributed to increased revenue in the two of the largest categories — Adult books and higher education course materials.

Depending on your professional and academic experience you may be required to complete an Access to Higher Education course, attend an interview, or demonstrate relevant work experience.

Not exact matches

That's good news for D2L, of course, whose products are used in roughly 50 % of all kindergarten to Grade 12 schools and higher - education institutions in Canada.

According to a 2011 report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, people with just a high school diploma earn an average of $ 32,600 a year, which adds up to $ 1,304,000 over the course of their time in the workforce.

Online courses are on the edge of disrupting higher education in a number of ways.

Of course, China isn't known for being particularly compromising when it comes to solving its higher - ed pickles: In 2011, the country's Ministry of Education notoriously announced that it would be canceling all majors that didn't produce employable graduates — largely programs that didn't accommodate the country's export - and manufacturing - based economy.

Exercise is not optional: physical education courses should be mandatory until high school graduation.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

Of course, this would be a rather unfortunate irony: higher education is supposed to enhance a nation's growth, but with such an enormous debt burden, graduates might not be able to spend and invest enough to allow that growth to occur.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

In North American higher education a curriculum is usually divided into discrete units or courses.

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

In past flush periods for higher education spending, new programs and courses were often added without much consideration or debate.

The grant of a high degree of freedom in education is, of course, for the sake of political democracy itself.

Freedom to assert unpopular ideas is, of course, at the very heart of the ideal of higher education.

I learned later that the only invitation he received from a department of religion in an institution of higher education for more than a single lecture was for a summer course in the Claremont Graduate School.

Bankers would be expected to be college graduates, but they normally learned the business of banking by experience in banks rather than by special courses in an institution of higher education.

That, of course, is also the proposal of the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church), which Coughlan does not mention.

The history of American higher education is not, of course, strictly Protestant.

John B. Cobb makes a crucial point in this regard: «Since the actual decisions about the course of history are made on other grounds and on the basis of a situation that is not Christ - centered, one cuts oneself off from all that» (Occasional Papers, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1:12, August 9, 1976, p. 6).

Of course, after years of sex education in schools we have not managed to stem the high rates of teenage pregnancy or been able to prevent ever increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease.