Sentences with phrase «higher education increased»

Additionally, the perceived value of higher education increased and a high percentage of parents felt their children would finish college.

In Brazil, between 1999 and 2010, enrollment in higher education increased from 11 percent to 27 percent of students within five years of high - school graduation age.

«As the cost of higher education increases, it affects who goes to college,» Long said.

Their solution was to have higher education increase enrollment and place more of their students in the state school districts; and, to have the USOE help educators who left to have families return to the profession.

As the cost of higher education increases, so to does the amount of student loan debt for those graduating from university or college and entering the workforce.

The increase has come as historically high shares of young adults in the United States go to college and the cost of higher education increases.

Not exact matches

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.

In other words, Canadians want better highways, better subways, better education and healthcare, but they are not prepared to pay for them through deficits and higher debt, even if this borrowing for new infrastructure doesn't increase our future debt burden.

In other words Canadians want better highway, better subways, better education and healthcare, but they are not prepared to pay for them through deficits and higher debt, even if this borrowing for new infrastructure doesn't increase our future debt burden.

According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for public welfare and education fueled the increase in the two states» public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.

Borrowing to complete an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree program is often the only means to pay for the cost of higher education, as the price tag continues to increase at public and private institutions alike.

In an era when students and families take on an ever - increasing share of the cost of higher education, having a poor record of student success is fast becoming a brand killer.

New entrants into the market, maturing standards, and increasing demand for interoperability are changing the technology landscape for higher education.

Higher education has responded to the over-production of Ph.D.'s by increasing post-docs, visiting appointments and the number of non-tenured professors.

Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.

The increase was most pronounced for respondents with lower education (high school or less), and lower income (annual incomes of less than $ 50,000).

Higher education expenditures on research and development have increased every year from 2006 to 2014, totalling more than $ 100 - billion.

It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth - gaps, reduces high - tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids» schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high - tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

As Director of the Business / Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Isabelle Duchaine leads BHER's external communications and several other initiatives that support its goals of increasing employment opportunities for young Canadians, boosting private sector and post-secondary research collaborations and helping businesses adapt to the economy of the future.

New policy decisions announced in the Budget included personal income tax cuts, increased spending on defence and domestic security, and reform of higher education and Medicare.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

Insofar as that support includes advocacy in Washington, D.C. for institutions of Christian higher education, we believe our association with the CCCU significantly weakens our collective voice for our distinctive mission, at a time when we are under increasing scrutiny.

What Lee does have is a tax plan that would increase the take - home pay of working parents who are at (or just under) the median income and education reforms that would make it easier for workers to get the skills and credentials they need to get higher paying jobs.

This is due to a number of factors: a main one being an increased focused on higher education for women (hooray!)

Over the past few months there has been a marked increase in stories about the decline of the humanities in higher education.

The foundation also lead a study to increase access to high education globally.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

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.

Second, biblically inspired institutions of higher education need increasing self - awareness that the vision of humanity, nature, and God that provides their identity has to be defended in its integrity.

This kind of higher education has increased rapidly over recent years.

Overall, ecumenical campus ministry in public higher education — in the northeast at least — has some well - defined needs, the most critical being a constituency in each denomination that will support it, especially in terms of budgetary increases.

The increased differentiation of institutions and their autonomy from religion, the expansion of the power of the state, the higher rates of participation by both men and women in the wage economy, the increased delegation of family functions like education, leisure and food preparation to the market and the state — all these trends weaken family functions.

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.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

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Higher levels of general education have been found to increase the ability of individuals to obtain and understand the health - related information needed to develop health - promoting behaviours.

Meredith Bracken, director of brand voice and digital strategy for Chartwells Higher Education Dining Services, echoes a similar sentiment, saying, «Chartwells Higher Education is committed to increasing the amount of vegan food options available to our guests.»

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

«We are committed to increased education, research and legislation that continues to help us reduce incidence of injury and improve safety of care across the high school landscape.»

Students in Waldorf high schools are given increasing autonomy over their education under the mentorship of teachers who are specialists in their fields.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

She didn't question the fact that the increased emphasis on writing and thinking — all stressful activities — at my alma mater, Hillsdale High in San Mateo, Calif., is a good thing, after I noted many of the changes were made by Stanford education school graduates.

The areas with the highest growth in home education are very different, suggesting there are many factors behind the increase.

The rate of breast - feeding increases with education, income and age; black women are less likely to breast - feed, while Hispanics have higher breast - feeding rates.

Last week Nebraska passed the School Readiness Tax Credit Act, creating two new tax credits designed to increase access to high quality early care and education (ECE) programs.