Sentences with phrase «higher education participation»

Education: Seeking a broadened range of strategies to meet educational requirements of Indigenous children with more Indigenous teachers» cross-culturally trained and increasing higher education participation via strategies that provide opportunities and alternative pathways in sports and scholastic academies while applying a holistic approach to reviews of conditions, roles, responsibilities for strategic direction and culturally appropriate, engaging environments for Indigenous people.

The previous government pledged more than $ 944 million between 2013 and 2017 to the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program.

John Dewar, vice-chancellor of La Trobe University told The Australian it was important to lift higher education participation rates.

«The number of programs and proposals is likely to grow because free - tuition programs meet several policy priorities of governments, including increasing higher education participation rates to cultivate a trained workforce while maintaining affordability,» the report found.

Not exact matches

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.

But with consistent, dedicated nutrition education in the Boulder Valley schools, Cooper reports that meal participation in her district is now at a higher level than before the new changes were implemented.

Interscholastic Athletics: State Board of Education Regulation 13A.06.03.02 (1994) sets the eligibility requirements for student participation in interscholastic athletics at the high school level.

More research is needed to understand how participation in home visiting programs in the early years of life serves to encourage high - risk parents to take advantage of early education programs available to them that can further support children's school readiness outcomes.

A randomized controlled trial of another program demonstrated high participation in school or training compared to the rate of the control group; a particular benefit of this program was the setting of concrete goals with the mothers for their education and professional development.

Participation in the meals program drops sharply with higher income and family education level.)

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom worked in conjunction with the Ohio Education Association, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast program.

The contest, which was co-sponsored by Project Bread and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, was designed to increase Massachusetts high school students» participation in school breakfast.

The NUS said widening participation must be made a priority and concluded: «With many of the key questions still unanswered, these statistics provide a shaky foundation on which to base arguments for further marketisation of the higher education system.»

For those with parents who held «managerial and professional» jobs when the respondent was 14, the rise in participation in higher education is 10 per cent For those with parents who had «intermediate occupations» (typically clerical and sales jobs or those running small businesses) the increase in the proportion with a degree shown between the two age groups is over 11 per cent

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

Mr Denham continued: «Widening participation in higher education should be seen as talent spotting by universities.

The last 40 years has seen higher education (HE) in the UK transformed from an elite system to a mass participation system: between 1962 and 2002, the participation rate rose from six per cent to around 43 per cent.

«In his report on the financing of Higher Education (HE), Lord Browne has made several recommendations that, if implemented by the government, would put at risk the key principles in Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policy.

Many blame the lack of minority S&E professors on what the Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) February 2004 report, A Bridge for All: Higher Education Design Principles to Broaden Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, calls an «ivory tower» mentality: the tendency of colleges to pursue developed excellence instead of seeking out and nurturing talent.

The process of reform — known as the Bologna Process, which has since expanded to include the current 47 countries — has subsequently added to this agenda additional ideals such as equal access to higher education, student - centered learning, and student participation in quality assurance and governance within their institutions.

The time is right to strengthen this relationship by increasing participation in standardization activities and heightening the awareness of the importance of standards in higher education venues, among consumers, and throughout the scientific community.

Beretz welcomes the new setup, in which all levels of education are brought together under one roof, because it may help increase student participation in higher education.

Widening Participation for Equity and Growth - A Strategy for the Development of the Social Dimension and Lifelong Learning in the European Higher Education Area to 2020

Fund 2 types of projects: (1) Institutional Transformation — for innovative & systemic organizational approaches to transform institutions of higher education to increase participation & advancement of women in STEM academic careers.

We request the Ministers at the Yerevan conference to adopt the document «Widening Participation for Equity and Growth - A Strategy for the Development of the Social Dimension and Lifelong Learning in the European Higher Education Area to 2020».

EURASHE is involved in the activities of the Bologna Follow - Up Group (BFUG) through its activities in the Bologna Process, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), its status of Consultative Member of the BFUG, and its active participation in the EHEA Ministerial Conferences.

Advise / support the Working Group «International Openness: European Higher Education in a Global Context» in convening a round table (with the participation of the European Commission and other main actors in higher education promotion in Europe) to devise a «road map» and to identify opportunities and actions for enhancing European - level promHigher Education in a Global Context» in convening a round table (with the participation of the European Commission and other main actors in higher education promotion in Europe) to devise a «road map» and to identify opportunities and actions for enhancing European - level pEducation in a Global Context» in convening a round table (with the participation of the European Commission and other main actors in higher education promotion in Europe) to devise a «road map» and to identify opportunities and actions for enhancing European - level promhigher education promotion in Europe) to devise a «road map» and to identify opportunities and actions for enhancing European - level peducation promotion in Europe) to devise a «road map» and to identify opportunities and actions for enhancing European - level promotion.

In a linear mixed model adjusted for age, sex, education, participation in cognitive activities, physical activities, smoking, and seafood and alcohol consumption, consumption of green leafy vegetables was associated with slower cognitive decline; the decline rate for those in the highest quintile of intake (median 1.3 servings / d) was slower by β = 0.05 standardized units (p = 0.0001) or the equivalent of being 11 years younger in age.

In East Africa, eLearning is a capable and realistic strategy to address the challenge of increasing access to, and thus increasing participation in, higher education.

Though the institutes educated them about the higher education system in America, their participation also brought a unique and useful perspective to the more than 200 fellow participants from around the globe.

However, Education Minister Simon Birmingham said Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment Education Minister Simon Birmingham said Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment Education at a Glance report showed Australia's education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment education system ranked amongst the world's best with high levels of access, participation and attainment and strong employment outcomes.

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)

Not only can the provision of high - quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilitate women's participation in the labor force, it can also have a positive effect on their children's educational performance.

Although financial education isn't yet a requirement in Michigan, student participation in the credit union program can qualify as the fourth math credit required for high school graduation.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the current state of affairs could be the result of some bad habits in recent years, as daily participation in high - school physical education classes dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 2003.

India has accounted for the highest share of ~ % in terms of participation of children in the pre-primary education and childcare sector in 2012.

It's also part of the National STEM School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year - olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12 high - level mathematics participation is declining.

Instead, the Lib Dems promise a review of higher education finance in the next Parliament «to consider any necessary reforms, in the light of the latest evidence of the impact of the existing financing system on access, participation and quality».

Thus, the value - added proposition of Cristo Rey Schools is to arbitrage the risk of investing in human capital by combining a quality high school education with real - world work experience and participation!

The board's action, taken this month, will help ensure that efforts to address the declining rate of minority participation in higher education receive high priority on campuses in the coming academic year, according to Reginald Wilson, director of the council's office of minority concerns.

On the question of school closings, for instance, Michele Cahill, a Carnegie Corporation education specialist who masterminded the small — high schools initiative for Klein, believes that the discussion lately «has gotten very stuck in issues of participation and decision making.»

The U.S. Department of Education's latest move to grant more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, this time aimed at helping schools that narrowly miss the law's requirement for high participation on standardized tests, was generally welcomed last week.

The areas where participation in higher education STEM courses has grown most strongly also appear to reinforce reported skills mismatches.

«This analysis has shown that, for school students that don't go on to higher education, participation in VET in Schools is associated with higher rates of engagement in employment or study five years after studying in school,» the report concludes.

The University of Derby and nine other educational institutions across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire have secured a total of # 6.9 m to help increase participation in higher education.

She continued: «Cuts to university budgets have also affected widening participation programmes, so there is less money for outreach programmes to help disadvantaged young people aware of the opportunities in higher education.

The unconditional means for special education participation as reported by parents in the NSCH are, as in other data sources, higher for blacks than whites, and lower for Hispanics and Asians than whites.

In our day and age where distance education participation is emerging, new methods of increasing learners» interests are in high demand.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.