Sentences with phrase «higher than any other institution»

WSPA Spartanburg, a local South Carolina television station, reported in September that it was «the highest number of forcible sex offenses reported (and) significantly higher than any other institution in the area.»

«We shop what banks are paying and the interest on our regular checking is five times higher than other institutions,» she says.

Not exact matches

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

Scientists at the highest ranking universities published fewer papers between 1993 and 1997 than did their peers at other institutions, but the work was rated as having higher scientific impact.

Clinical trials at other institutions have also shown that fixed - dose combination is nearly five times more effective at controlling high blood pressure than other drug therapies.

Gladstone has already been providing its postdocs with more competitive benefits than most other institutions across the country, and they are pleased that they are now able to offer them even higher compensation.

Federal and state incentives at both the institutional and student level for higher on - time graduation rates are needed, as is longitudinal data that would allow institutional graduation rates to include part - time students and those who graduate from institutions other than the one in which they initially enrolled.

In other words, a student who faced institutions that were all conducive to student performance would have scored more than 200 points higher in math than a student who faced institutions that were all detrimental to student performance.

«The public is losing confidence in the ability of the higher - education sector in particular to control costs,» note the authors, adding that «all of higher education has a stake in addressing this problem, including the elite institutions that are under less immediate pressure than others to alter their teaching methods.»

Estimated remedial math enrollment rates are consistently higher for each institution type, at a rate of almost 26 percent for two - year institutions, with the multiplier equaling 0.256; 4 percent for very high research institutions, with the multiplier equaling 0.04; and slightly more than 18 percent for other four - year institutions, with the multiplier equaling 0.181.

In reviewing the actual enrollment data for just remedial English, the authors applied a remedial rate of slightly more than 8 percent for two - year institutions to each institution's total enrollment for a multiplier of 0.0814; slightly more than 1 percent for four - year very high research institutions for a multiplier of 0.0107; and almost 5 percent for other four - year institutions for a multiplier of 0.0471.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.

In selecting communities to participate in the program, the statute requires DOT to give priority to those communities where (a) average air fares are higher than the air fares for all communities; (b) a portion of the cost of the activity contemplated by the community is provided from local, non-airport-revenue sources; (c) a public - private partnership has been or will be established to facilitate air carrier service to the public; (d) improved service will bring the material benefits of scheduled air transportation to a broad section of the traveling public, including businesses, educational institutions, and other enterprises whose access to the National air transportation system is limited (e) the assistance will be used in a timely fashion; and, (f) multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.

As used in this paragraph, a «Covered Borrower» means any person who, at the time such person becomes obligated on a loan transaction or establishes an account for consumer credit, satisfies the requirements under any one or more of the following classifications, or is otherwise under applicable laws deemed to be a «Covered Borrower» under the Military Lending Act, 10 U.S. Code Section 987: (a) An active duty member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force or Coast Guard, or a person serving on active Guard and Reserve duty (a person described in this clause (a) of the definition of «Covered Borrower» is hereinafter referred to as a «Service Member»); or (b) Any of the following persons, relative to a Service Member: (1) The spouse; (2) A child under the age of 21; or (3) If dependent on the Service Member for more than one half of such person's support, any one or more of the following persons: (i) A child under the age of 23 enrolled in a full time course of study at an institution of higher learning; (ii) A child of any age incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred before attaining age 23 while such person was dependent on the Service Member; (iii) Any unmarried person placed in legal custody of the Service Member who resides with such Service Member unless separated by military service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's household.

The lower bound interest rates for Regions Bank unsecured personal loans are generally higher than those at other institutions — some lenders, such as SoFi and LightStream, have starting rates under 6 %.

(a) Institution of higher education For purposes of this chapter, other than subchapter IV, the term «institution of higher education» means an educational institution in any State that --

(b) Additional institutions included For purposes of this chapter, other than subchapter IV, the term «institution of higher education» also includes --

The institution that computes interest in this manner must provide a range that shows the lowest and the highest annual percentage yields for each tier (other than for the first tier, which, like the tiers in Method A, has the same annual percentage yield throughout).

Because financial institutions know that the funds deposited will remain at the bank for a set amount of time, interest rates are generally higher than other types of deposit accounts, such as savings or checking accounts, where money can flow in or out at any time.

On the other hand, online - only banks are often able to provide accounts with higher interest rates and lower fees than brick - and - mortar institutions.

A deposit account held at a bank or other financial institution that offers a higher interest rate than most basic transaction accounts.

Credit unions have branches in over 100 communities throughout the province, thereby providing Manitobans substantially better physical access to high quality financial services and products than any other financial institution.

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

One study found considerable variability in the quality of the home environments; higher - quality environments were found with families who had increased economic resources.72 Another study also found variability in the home environments foster children experience and reported that unrelated foster parents had higher - quality home environments than kinship foster parents.73 In this same vein, foster children need caregivers who can work with child welfare agencies to ensure that children's individual needs are met by the child welfare system and other social institutions charged with meeting these needs.

But consumers rank trust and transparency as high as or higher than product quality when deciding whether to make a purchase, according to the 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey measuring the credibility of business and other institutions.