Sentences with phrase «higher education the nation»

Large numbers of overseas students make higher education the nation's third - largest export sector.

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This possibly explains why other non-nuclear nations play a greater role in the international community and enjoy a higher standard of living than Russia, which prioritizes nuclear weapons above other things like investing in education or infrastructure.
It's no secret that higher education is commonplace for young entrepreneurs, but in an era where the approximate balance of the nation's student loans is growing by $ 2,762.27 a second, potential entrepreneurs could be holding back from pursuing their business ideas.
That means the two governors share the second - worst record on higher education funding in the nation.
As they searched for an education - related idea, they were amazed to discover that while many companies were working on aggregating primary and middle schools into an online community, no one had yet wired together the nation's 20,000 high schools.
This observation is true for China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the United States, where higher education is linked to higher perceived importance of the respective country to Canada's prosperity.
Aside from being the nation's premier student loan news site, our goal here at the Student Loan Report is to help students and their families make wise decisions regarding their higher education.
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.
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.
Among the nation's top secondary schools, HCHS is uniquely governed, the only New York City public high school not under control of New York City's Department of Education.
But just as equal opportunities within a society are unlikely to become reality without general access to high quality education, so free trade will not in practice be generally accepted, especially among the poorer countries, until the huge discrepancies between nations in technical and commercial skills are diminished.
The nation decided that higher education should be for all.
But in both nations the predominant educational systems have pretty much ignored media education, except for a few «honors» classes in high school.
Indeed, through the colonial period and the first century of national life, American higher education was largely a product of the nation's churches: Harvard, Yale, Princeton and William and Mary were all founded primarily to educate the clergy.
It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.
For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.
Since then, we've swept the nation and made higher education the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception.
Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.
He also coached high school football, served as an athletic director and held high level positions with the Athletic Institute and the American Sports Education Institute before creating NAYS, which would become the nation's most well - known and respected advocate for youth sports under his leadership.
Pennsylvania boasts one of the highest number of accredited Athletic Training Education Programs in the nation (20).
This is the highest that percentage has been since 1985 and is widely due to education and the nation's work to spread awareness.
Raise of the corruption and favoritism, in some nations is common to see that government workers, and officers aren't chosen by their education or skills, they are pointed because their party's militancy or in some cases because their are family members of a high government officer.
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»
We have the highest taxes and the largest health care, energy and education costs of any state in the nation.
The higher cost of fringe benefits is another reason why New York State tops the nation in education spending — $ 19,552 per student — nearly double the $ 10,608 national average.
With the tax cap in its second year, questions abound as to whether it has either curbed among the highest taxes in the nation or has negatively impacted education and government services.
«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.
«This is the first issue that I want to address, and in many ways, I believe it is the most important issue that this state and this nation must address,» Cuomo said at a rally with Sanders in January, «which is higher education and the affordability of higher education
Officials from state - run colleges and universities across the nation will gather near Albany this weekend to discuss the issues facing public higher education.
He also promised to continue to enact the Dream Act, to offer college aid to children of immigrants in the country illegally, hold down the state's near highest in the nation property taxes, and to make New York's education system the best in the nation.
The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.
Having visited many other secondary schools in the country, I concur with Mohammed Haruna that, in terms of learning space and facilities, Osogbo Government High School «must be one of the largest, most beautiful and most well equipped secondary schools in the country» («Education: Aregbesola as an exemplar», The Nation, September 8, 2016).
Higher education has long been our nation's primary lever of upward mobility.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.
«This unacceptable trend is set to continue, unless post the 2015 General Election we have a government which is committed to an economic policy which has at its heart a universal entitlement for all to access high quality education and which secures inclusive prosperity in which all of the people have the opportunity to share in the wealth of the nation
A plan to alleviate hunger among students from kindergarten through higher education has received some national attention, as one component would require every public college or university in the state to offer a food pantry on campus — a project that would be the first of its kind in the nation.
«This state funds education at the highest level in the nation per pupil.
President Mahama said his government will fulfill its promise to the nation by expanding and upgrading senior high school education which he made in his 2012.
On Tuesday 12th September, 2017 at the West Africa Senior High School, the President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo launched the free senior high school education policy ushering the nation into an era where the age old creed of «education as a right not a privilege» assumes its true meanHigh School, the President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo launched the free senior high school education policy ushering the nation into an era where the age old creed of «education as a right not a privilege» assumes its true meanhigh school education policy ushering the nation into an era where the age old creed of «education as a right not a privilege» assumes its true meaning.
Research!America is the nation's largest not - for - profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority.
Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growtEducation and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growteducation of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»
Cuomo has frequently pointed to New York's highest - in - the - nation spending per pupil, and argued that more money isn't always the answer to education challenges.
The nation's public colleges and universities were founded on the principle that everyone should be able to afford a higher education.
New York's high school graduation rate actually surpassed the nation as a whole, said education department spokeswoman Emily DeSantis.
In 1998, Lubchenco's appeal was quickly followed by the release of the Boyer Commission's «Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities» report that delivered a stark assessment of the nation's research institutions and more broadly higher eEducation: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities» report that delivered a stark assessment of the nation's research institutions and more broadly higher educationeducation.
In a letter to Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, the heads of AAAS, the nation's leading societies and higher education organizations highlighted the vital role of scientifically accurate information in government documents and communications, saying restrictions on the use of words threatens the integrity of scientific advice.
«I am concerned that it will affect the trust that we have from the public, for Sweden as a prominent research nation, and for the Karolinska Institute,» Sweden's minister for higher education and research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson, tells Science.
Similar obligations exist in the higher education systems of other European nations.
These types of investments are making Nevada's institutions of higher education, schools, cities, private businesses, and counties synonymous with some of the nation's most innovative clean energy projects.
OSTP ensures that executive branch policies are informed by science, and works with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end.
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