Sentences with phrase «including gap years»

Additionally, the scope of international experience that is available to both college and high school students should venture beyond traditional study - abroad programs to include gap years, which could consist of actual work experience, as well as internships and volunteer opportunities.

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According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every year showing the gender pay gap.

Over the years, you've been a vocal advocate for getting Canadians to address various business challenges, including the need to go global and the skills gap affecting the labour force.

Her group, which was set up this year, has approximately 50 members including Gap Inc, J.C. Penney Co, Lowe's Co and Walgreens.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

The analysis used to calibrate next year's index view involves nine different methods, including a normalized earnings yield gap approach, the P / E Bulls - Eye, currency measures, and consumer confidence, which supports a 1,900 year - end result for the S&P 500 - 4 % above the previously released June 2014 expectation of 1,825.

Startups including Bird, founded by former Lyft - then - Uber executive Travis VanderZanden, LimeBike, and Spin, have been dumping internet - connected scooters on city streets over the last year, ostensibly in an effort to fill the gaps in municipal transit.

We will also add new items throughout the year that help address gaps in the current menu and support guest count growth over time, including lighter and fresher entrées.

This year during Alibaba's Single's Day, held Wednesday, many global names were among the best - selling brands, including U.S. brands Apple Inc., No. 11 in the Internet Retailer 2015 China 500; Gap Inc. (No. 207), Nike Inc. (No. 253) and Cadillac.

SR began over 20 years ago when Ochs and a group of Jewish scholars, including Robert Gibbs, Laurie Zoloth and Steve Kepnes, grew frustrated about the gap between scripture study and modem scholarship.

It is smaller than the gap discernible in the 1920s, and only slightly larger than those for the «40s and «50s (see Yearbook of Amen can and Canadian Churches for the years 1920 - 1984)(I have made these calculations without including one denomination on the Carroll graph — the Lutheran Church in America — whose antecedents in earlier decades are too complex for reliable figuring.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Alison brings 25 years of advertising, marketing, and sales experience to GFI working with brands including Taco Bell, Levi Strauss, Gap, Kiplinger's, and Parents magazine.

Carolina's topline, centered by Rod Brind «Amour, drew the attention of Pronger and partnerJason Smith for most of the series, giving it the dubious honor of trying towipe that David Letterman - like gap - toothed smile off Pronger's unmarked face.That matchup gave Carolina's second - line center, Staal, a degree of liberty.The 6» 4», 205 - pound Staal matter - of - factly led playoff scoring with 28points, including eight in the finals - a remarkable achievement by a 21 - year - oldwho is as modest as his roots, which really do come from the soil.

Check out the many other opportunities and programs offered at Timber - lee including parent / child weekends, family camping, Leadership in Camp Ministry internship and a new Gap Year program for recent high school graduates.

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

The NHS made efficiencies of 1.7 % a year from 2009/10 to 2014/15 - which included making service cuts such as restricting access to hip and knee replacements - but the Health Foundation warned that Labour would need to make bigger savings, of 2 - 3 % a year, to close the funding gap.

The Executive Budget, at $ 134 billion, proposes to close a $ 7.4 billion gap between projected spending and revenues, including a $ 500 million deficit carried forward from the current Fiscal Year.

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

Gov. David Paterson proposes a $ 5 billion deficit reduction plan to address this year's budget gap, including a $ 223.2 million cut to New York City schools.

Stutzman thought he'd be getting help from the Club for Growth, which backed him earlier this year, but as Nathan Gonzales pointed out last week, Stutzman wasn't included in the group's end - of - the - year fundraising email, a potentially troubling sign for a candidate looking to close a substantial fundraising gap.

In essence, the Republicans want the final state budget agreement to include $ 1 billion that would completely eliminate the gap in funding, which was first approved in 2010 during the final year of Gov. David Paterson's administration.

This year's budget proposal includes $ 1 billion in new tax and fee increases aimed at closing the deficit, but the structural gaps will remain.

Fed up with the Legislature's lack of progress in closing a $ 9 billion budget gap, Paterson has been including a year's worth of cuts in his weekly emergency spending bills.

Based on current - law spending trends (including the $ 864 million 2015 - 16 aid hike the Conference Board regards as insufficient), the state financial plan currently incorporates budgets gaps for every year from 2016 through 2018.

And to be sure, the state has faced larger gaps in recent years, including a $ 10 billion hole Cuomo inherited when he took office in 2011.

Assessing options and scenarios to proactively address potential significant additional budget reductions in 2011, including one of several options listed in the current Erie County Four Year Financial Plan to balance projected funding gaps that would reduce the Library's 2011 allocation by a further 10 % ($ 2.2 million); and

In a departure from previous years, Malloy released budget details on Monday and his speech focused largely on other issues, including calls for stronger gun laws, early voting, an increase in the minimum wage and addressing the gender wage gap.

In recent years, the city's school district has made several decisions to help close budget gaps, including cutting about 200 staff positions.

Last year, after receiving similar letters from his office, retailers including Gap, J.Crew and Victoria's Secret agreed to end on - call scheduling.

If they had been included, there would have been a larger gap between previous years and 2015, when there was only a race for one Assembly seat in the first half of the year.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

For example, because there would be such a large gap between the final clinical years and the beginning of medical school, I did not think that a traditional, purely didactic curriculum would be as useful as those that also included a problem - based learning aspect.

She graduated from Stanford University with degrees in international relations and Spanish, and spent 10 years working at Fortune 500 companies including Gap, Walmart, and Amazon.

Renting a room with Homestay in Scotland offers host family accommodation, ideal for all types of travel including tourists, students, gap year, interns or city break weekenders.

This year's crop of Docs that will surely make waves include Robert Greene's «Bisbee» 17,» Bing Liu's «Minding the Gap,» RaMell Ross» «Hale County,» Tim Wardle's «Three Identical Strangers,» Alexandria Bombach's «On Her Shoulders,» and Morgan Neville's «Won't You Be My Neighbor» which told the touching, humane story of Fred Rogers.

It would do this by covering the gap between tuition and existing financial aid (not including mandatory fees) for full - time students from families earning less than $ 125,000 per year, who have not exceeded their program's designated time to completion.

Given that many mental disorders including ADHD and anxiety started early in life and could persist for many years, early childhood interventions needed improvement to close initial gaps in academic performance, he said.

A writing frame for a PowerPoint presentation on describing timetables - including gaps for times, subjects, teachers and opinions - designed for use by Year 7's.

Mandatory figures for reporting include the median and mean gender pay gap, the proportion of men and women in each quartile of the pay structure, and pay gaps in any bonuses paid out during the year.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

As a seventh - and eighth - grade math teacher in a K — 8 charter school in Massachusetts, he points to several factors that he believes contribute to the success of his school, including ongoing communication and collaboration among staff of all grade levels, as well as the development of a curriculum that «ramps up» each year, preventing gaps or holes in nine consistent years of academic preparation.

The helpline answered thousands of calls last year on topics including resits, vocational courses, gap years, funding, careers and employment.

With this year's IDEA determinations, the Department used multiple outcome measures that include students with disabilities» participation in state assessments, proficiency gaps between students with disabilities and all students, as well as performance in reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to produce a more comprehensive and thorough picture of the performance of children with disabilities in each state.

These are excel spreadsheets Gap Analysis documents for the May 2017 Year Six SATs Papers for GPS (including spelling).

The things still undone after 11 years include a relatively small but stubborn achievement gap, a high dropout rate, and struggling programs for English language learners and special - education students.

Walker's budget also lays out goals for school districts to meet by 2017, including raising the state's four - year graduation rate to 92 percent from the current 88 percent level; increasing college and career readiness from 32 percent to 67 percent and closing achievement gaps in those areas by 50 percent.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

This year's topics include closing achievement gaps that plague U.S. schools, helping all students succeed in highly rigorous programs, motivating and inspiring black male learners, and leading students in high - poverty schools to success.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.