Sentences with phrase «how university places»

There have been two major reports this year looking into how university places are funded — so which was right?

Not exact matches

«Good organizations are forecasting their human capital and looking at the demographic data — who's graduating from university, how many people are retiring and the number of people available to take their place.»

During his time at University College London, his Master's dissertation focused on how communities inhabit, modify, and create virtual places via social media.

Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

«Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place shortly after morning awakening.

Hence the expansion in universities, the elision of the university / polytechnic distinction, the increased hegemony of the business world (the importation of people like BP's Chris Motishead into places like KCL, the creation of the BIS Dept) over that of education, and the introduction of weaselly concepts like «research impact» into how HEFCE funds our academics.

An international conference will take place at Queens's University in Belfast (19 - 21 May 2011) exploring how cities have been shaped by ethnic, religious and national conflicts.

«Mr. Avle, the statement of the former President was corroborated by officials of the Attorney General's Department at a meeting with them in Accra after we went to the Ho high court to seek an injunction on the university that, indeed enough amount of money was placed in an escrow account solely for the payment of UHAS land compensation.The question now is, how come that after signing our Offer for almost a year, payment from an escrow account is still an issue for the Finance Ministry» he stated.

The researchers, led by Simon Lewis and Greta Dargie of University College London and the University of Leeds in England, trekked into the basin to extract «cores» to measure how deep the peat went in dozens of places.

In the second article, Grégory Batt, head of the InBio unit and co-last author with Pascal Hersen (CNRS) of the Laboratoire Matière et systèmes complexes (CNRS / Paris Diderot University), explains how they managed to place a cellular system in an unstable configuration: «We designed a computer program which aims to force the cells to take binary decisions randomly.

To determine how halteres work, Leif Ristroph of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, placed tiny magnetic rods on the backs of fruit flies and released them.

To find out just how often the apes leave the canopy, Brent Loken at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, and colleagues placed a network of ground - based cameras across a 38 - square - kilometre region of forest in north - eastern Indonesian Borneo.

Examining ancient DNA can fill in those gaps to give a better indication of how domestication took place and how ancient people interacted with animals, says Laurent Frantz, an evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary University of London.

Despite billing itself as the place «where discoveries begin,» NSF has for years failed to discover how many postdocs work in America's universities, many of them supported by NSF's own grants.

To find out how strict social norms are in different places, Michele Gelfand of the University of Maryland in College Park, and colleagues, surveyed 6800 people in 33 countries.

«You can imagine how confused a tortoise must be after living in a place for 20 or 30 years and suddenly there is a barrier in its way,» said co-author Tracey Tuberville, associate research scientist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab.

A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created for the first time an estimate of how much dimmer the Sun should be when the next minimum takes place.

«We did this study because understanding how much radiation comes off of common household items helps place radiation readings in context — it puts things in perspective,» says Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University.

To figure out how organisms might have endured periods of so - called «catastrophic darkness», Charles Cockell of the Open University's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research in Milton Keynes, UK, and his team placed samples of both freshwater and marine microorganisms in darkness...

Research conducted by Dr Bill Dew at the University of Lethbridge in Canada looked for the first time at the effect of the metal contaminants nickel and copper on specific fish olfactory sensory neurons, and how these affect the fish's ability to detect and swim away from an odour released by other fish of the same species (conspecifics) when a predator attack takes place.

The power of proof by picture has changed how we see the world and our place within it — despite objections from some mathematicians who argue for more rigorous logic, writes University of Cambridge cosmologist John D. Barrow.

Randy Katz, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-chaired the panel that wrote the report, says the country should «embrace» the globalization of R&D but also «take it as a challenge: How do you keep the U.S. a good place for innovation?»

Stan Klein, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, argues that the intertwining of foresight and episodic memory may help explain how this type of memory evolved in the first place.

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»

The Behavioral Epigenetics conference, hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences and the University of Massachusetts Boston, is one of the first to examine how epigenetic changes take place, how they alter behavior, and how they can trigger the onset of disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.

Chu, who is also president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, thinks the United States is still the best place in the world for conducting HTS research — but he isn't sure how long that will last.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU) jointly urged the panel to put in place clear rules about how personally identifiable information would be used and safeguarded.

When first author Jianyu Li, Ph.D. (former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute and now an Assistant Professor at McGill University) started thinking about how to improve medical adhesives, he found a solution in an unlikely place: a slug.

John Avise, a geneticist at the University of Georgia in Athens, introduced two closely related species of mosquito fish to study how they evolved in places where their distribution overlapped.

«Our research examines how moral values of empathy and justice have distinct influences on people when they are asked to make donations benefiting others whose choices have led them to an unfortunate place in life,» write authors Saerom Lee (University of Texas at San Antonio), Karen Page Winterich (Pennsylvania State University), and William T. Ross Jr. (University of Connecticut).

«This is absolutely a worldwide unique place,» says Derek Wildman of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, who is studying the bonobos» genomes to determine how language learning might affect epigenetic characteristics.

Some institutions, like the University of Minnesota, who had such an excellent rationale for why they were raising salaries in the first place, appeared to reverse that decision, but have now talked in the press about how they are raising postdoc salaries, but have apparently not informed postdocs of this, and so we, like their postdocs, have no clear idea of what is happening (a request for confirmation of their plans had not been answered at time of writing).

«We've known there's been an interchange of animals between Asia and North America in the late Cretaceous period, but this is the first example we have of a fossil in the High Arctic region showing how this migration may have taken place,» says John Tarduno, professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester and leader of the Arctic expedition.

«We knew that Dll4, when activated, directs artery formation, but couldn't pinpoint how it is activated in the first place,» said Dr. Bruneau, who is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.

Spatial Histories of Modern Medicine: Using Space and Place to Understand the Past (under contract to Cambridge University Press) uses a series of historical examples, including homes, ambulances, and waiting rooms, to investigate how the characteristics of space and place influence healing practices, and how the practice of medicine produces particular kinds of place and sPlace to Understand the Past (under contract to Cambridge University Press) uses a series of historical examples, including homes, ambulances, and waiting rooms, to investigate how the characteristics of space and place influence healing practices, and how the practice of medicine produces particular kinds of place and splace influence healing practices, and how the practice of medicine produces particular kinds of place and splace and space.

Once you have been selected for an ICM study place through your home university you will receive a nomination email containing specific instructions on how to apply for an ICM grant, an ICM guide for incoming grantees as well as all necessary documents.

It changed my life, and although many other wonderful sources I've found over the years also support that, John Hopkins University online was the first place I learned about how sugar and refined carbs can trigger epilepsy.

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According the guidance, school's and universities should be safe places, where children and young people can discuss sensitive topics to better understand how to challenge extremist ideas.

«This consultation asks how we can create more great school places in more parts of the country — including selective places for local areas that want them — and asks our independent schools, universities and faith schools to play their part in improving the quality of our state - funded schools.»

This includes recommendations suggesting that: primary schools should bring in outside experts to teach coding; all primaries should have 3D printers and design software; secondary schools should be able to teach Computer Science, Design and Technology or another technical / practical subject in place of a foreign language GCSE; the Computer Science GCSE should be taken by at least half of all 16 year olds; young apprenticeships should be reintroduced at 14, blending a core academic curriculum with hands - on learning; all students should learn how businesses work, with schools linked to local employers; schools should be encouraged to develop a technical stream from 14 - 18 for some students, covering enterprise, health, design and hands - on skills; and that universities should provide part - time courses for apprentices to get Foundation and Honours degrees.

One shared challenge is acknowledging, honoring, and better understanding the tremendous complexities of how colleges and universities actually work, regardless of one's job or place in the institutional hierarchy.

We may also demonstrate how to use the BBC mircro: bit or 3D printer in the classroom, or place a teacher in a placement at a world ‑ leading university.

At the conference he will explain how the system is failing the students: «We know of cases where, after re-remarks have come through, their pupils are confirmed as having exceeded the offer of their first choice university yet have nevertheless been told - inexplicably - that they no longer have a place for that year.

She interviewed 16 faculty members from four colleges and universities across the country, investigating how fine arts faculty are making meaning of their place in this new pedagogical landscape and what their choices might mean for the future of their discipline.

Yet the latest in a series indicators of school district effectiveness by Harvard University's Strategic Data Project at its Center for Education Policy Research show many districts do not know how to place and retain these teachers to help them succeed.

So, I think it's really important to explore what's going on there and how universities might have to change a little bit to better support those students who have enormous potential to succeed in university, but just don't see that it's perhaps the right place for them.

This data would come from pupil and parent feedback on how schools are doing, as well as figures on how many pupils obtain university places.

Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.

The Department for Education initially defended the appointment, as did prime minister Theresa May and universities minister Jo Johnson, but they came increasingly under pressure to explain how he had been appointed to the role in the first place.