Sentences with phrase «increasing number of universities»

An increasing number of universities are ending, or threatening to end, bundled journal subscriptions with major publishers.

PhD students can now elect representatives to a national students» council and to the academic senate of an increasing number of universities, enjoy economic benefits similar to those of undergraduate students, choose to write their thesis in a foreign language, appeal following a failed defence, and hold their title right after a successful defence, because all further bureaucratic requirements like filing copies of the thesis to the national libraries have been transferred to the universities.

To help ease the problem, the Education Ministry has promised to increase the number of university teaching assistant posts for doctoral students from 2000 to 2700 in the next academic year.

As more companies sponsor research, increasing numbers of universities permit such practices.

An increasing number of university presidents with business backgrounds are coming into colleges with the idea to reform them and make them more marketable, more desirable, and, in turn, more profitable.

Also, with the rise of the cost of living and an increased number of university graduates, having a Bachelor's degree or even a law degree doesn't mean you'll automatically get a job.

Not exact matches

Motorola's University of Western Australia facility is set to increase its number of employees to 100 as new projects come online.

Everything from reaching out to a certain number of coaches every single day, running a specific 40 - yard dash time, eating certain healthy foods that would help increase my performance and attending the right summer camps at universities that would put me in front of the right people.

There is an increasing number of incubators and accelerators to promote sector growth, plus recognition by universities and other support sectors that Fintech is of strategic importance.

Previously we reported on the steady increase in the number of women founders and the universities that produce them.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

He lamented, in 2009, the significant decrease in the number of Catholic faculty and the fact that the University's increased focus on research to maintain its status among elite universities was weakening the quality of undergraduate education.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

Cal Dining still operates four main all - you - can - eat university dining halls, though the number of meals it serves has greatly increased to 32,000 meals a day, or 5.5 million meals a year.

An increasing number of restaurants, takeaways, pizzerias, canteens in schools, universities and hospitals are now offering gluten free meal options.

With over 1,000 members across the collegiate University, and a significant increase in the number of women now playing the sport, OURFC has never been more popular or relevant at Oxford.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Dr. Thomas Trojian of Drexel University College of Medicine was lead author of a new study that showed a sharp increase in the number of youth athlete receiving medical treatment for sports - related concussions after CT concussion laws were passed in 2010.

As chairman of the Tory Reform Group, the largest membership group within the Conservative party, that is why we are dedicating time and resources to build up our student wing and why I'm proud to count among our members a record and growing number of students, and increasing presence across University campuses crisscrossing the country from Cardiff to Hull, London to Edinburgh.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

It is a particularly sad fact that over the past three decades, in spite of the increase in higher education, the number of engineering graduates from our universities has decreased.

The number of non-toxicology procedures increased 2 per cent to 3.39 million, reflecting the higher numbers of procedures carried out in universities (+7 %), particularly fundamental research.

However, a study published this week by Goldsmiths University shows that the scaling back of search and rescue operations since November 2014 has not decreased the number of attempted crossings, while the death toll has significantly increased.

As I am now the universities minister, I am aware that my generation had all the advantages of a free university education which is no longer available due to the rapid increase in student numbers.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Universities can also accept an unlimited number of AAB students which has increased competition with teenagers failing to get a place if they even marginally miss out on their grades.

The statistics demonstrate the depth of the recession's impact on young people, who face the most difficult job market in decades and increased competition for university places, with a record number of applications this year.

Data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University show that the number of women running for higher level office has increased over time.

A further option, currently being researched by the Nuffield Foundation, would be to allow a limited number of universities to increase fees.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

The current document observes that, especially since the 2000 report, a number of positive steps have occurred, such as establishment of postdoctoral offices at many universities and increased use of individual development plans to help postdocs clarify their career options.

The university implemented a parental leave policy for non-regular-rank faculty and employees, increased the number of spaces available in its on - campus child care facility, created the Duke Child Care Partnership to help subsidize child care costs at neighboring off - campus facilities, and renovated the five lactation rooms at the medical center.

«The genetic correction doesn't increase the number of genetic anomalies that you can find in iPS cells,» says Ludovic Vallier, a stem - cell biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the study's co-authors.

In the United Kingdom, «a major factor in the increase in both numbers and professionalization [of knowledge brokers] is the recent inclusion of «research impact» as a measure [used] to rank U.K. universities and determine funding, so investing in staff to promote research impact has become a priority,» Knight explains.

«In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining mind wandering,» explains researcher Paul Seli, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University and lead author on the study.

The union claims that a 10 % decline in the number of full - time faculty since 1990 — a period during which student enrollment increased by 53 % — is eroding the quality of education, and it wants the university to halt the decline.

«Research university lobbyists... have told me that they have made a deal with the lobbyists for the companies that wanted increased numbers of the H - 1B visas,» Teitelbaum says.

For scientists in academe, universities» expectations about the number of grants they should win increased, as did the number of proposals submitted to NIH.

Presentations from Lidia Borrell - Damian, director for research and innovation at the European University Association, and Vincent Mignotte of ABG - L'intelli» agence in France, offered statistics showing a 50 % to 100 % increase in the number of Ph.D. s undertaken in Europe over the past decade.

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

«There has been a massive [50 percent] increase in the number of Ph.D. applicants this year — 270 applicants for six places,» says David Attwell, the University College London (UCL) neuroscientist who oversees the four - year Ph.D. fellowship program funded by the Wellcome Trust charity.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

Another effective measure that could be taken at a university level is that postgraduate departments should impose a limit on the number of students supervised by an individual lecturer, especially when the latter has increased teaching and administrative duties.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

Increasing the numbers of volunteer healthcare professionals on the ground in West Africa can help prevent the spread of Ebola as well as a secondary health crisis while starting to rebuild the public health infrastructure in West Africa, said Lisa Cooper, who is a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Liberian expatriate.

«These findings are extremely encouraging and suggest that with sustained commitment to increase the number of people who use combination HIV prevention, it may be possible to achieve epidemic control and eventual elimination of HIV,» said David Serwadda, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., M.P.H., co-founder of the Rakai Health Science Program and Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda.