Sentences with phrase «lack of engagement in»

Given the history of lack of consultation, lack of participation and lack of engagement in government policy making and program development to date, the recognition of the right to self - determination in a Human Rights Act would provide an important foundation that would promote Indigenous peoples» democratic inclusion and improved accountability.

Poor school attendance can also indicate lack of engagement in schooling, on the part of both the child and their parents or carers.

But, even more importantly, if your resume and LinkedIn profile are up to par, but you don't leverage them in a tech savvy way, that lack of engagement in the digital age will hurt you more than help you.

BlackRock's Global Investor Pulse Survey finds women are having a harder time than men in balancing everyday expenses with saving for retirement, and that lack of engagement in financial matters is translating into greater risk aversion — holding women back from realizing their retirement goals.

But when laptops are not used strictly for class - related activities, we see the following negative outcomes: More distractions, a lack of engagement in class activities, and ultimately, less learning.

Gamification is a band - aid to try and fix a lack of engagement in poorly designed learning experiences.

Billy voiced serious concerns on proposed state funding of political parties, and that it would lead to a lack of engagement in the LP and stop activism.

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Ideally, no one should come in to the office just to make it through the day and earn a paycheck, but a lack of genuine investment and engagement in your work is an even bigger problem if the business is yours.

According to the 2016 Bayt.com Career Development in the Middle East and North Africa survey, a lack of career development prospects can radically make or break employee engagement and retention.

Our 2016 UK RISE survey found there appears to be a lack of engagement with the current pension system, with just 13 % of UK respondents believing the pension freedom reforms introduced in April 2015 have enhanced their ability to meet retirement goals.

It means a lack of engagement from influencers in your space.

Recent research from Gallup focused on «active disengagement,» or the notion of employee engagement at work (or the lack thereof) as a factor in driving business operations.

The combination in many churches of an obsession with issues of sexuality and a simultaneous lack of serious engagement with the theological issues at stake in the current war illustrates the point nicely.

In fact, Flourishing could also be seen as contributing to the dialogue with culture, though it lacks intensity of engagement and is devoted to the sweep of culture rather than to its detailed understanding, which is also a necessary element of the discussion.

I now hope that the unpolemical attitudes of my old age and dependence may have had their roots in experience, rather than in the irresponsibility of weakness and lack of engagement.

In the past 15 months, Kournikova has posed for Rolling Stone wearing high heels and a panty - baring miniskirt; bragged to a Wimbledon press conference about the lack of fat on her behind; and fostered rumors of an engagement to Fedorov — 11 years her senior — by flashing a ring on her left hand.

After three or four jolly months in France, the girl broke off the engagement «due to my lack of consistency,» as Se √ ± or explains it.

On the other hand, the lack of association between earlier experiences and post-natal attachment suggests that fatherhood may help young men at high risk of social exclusion to create a new identity and a more positive engagement in social life.

Several independent project evaluators commented on male engagement, or lack of male engagement, in their final evaluation reports, with most indicating approval of male engagement to promote or support EBF.

The lack of paternal engagement could reflect wider problems in family relationships, with fathers who are in a more troubled relationship with their partner finding it more challenging to engage with their infant.

Another possibility is that the infant's behaviour represents its attempt to elicit a parental reaction in response to an earlier lack of parental engagement.

Disturbingly, fathers identified a lack of «real information», a lack of recognition for their role, lack of engagement during the antenatal education process, and lack of commitment to breastfeeding by hospital staff as barriers they needed to overcome in their role as advocates and supporters of breastfeeding.

Over time, many children with Selective Mutism no longer feel anxious, but their mutism and lack of proper social engagement continue to exist in select settings.

Acknowledge the incidence wherever he was at his next speaking engagement since he was not in the country but still had to show leadership Instead, our president's Twitter account handlers begun a knee - jerk reaction by tweeting on social media about the incidence and in such an infantile and useless manner, this was done on three occasions which demonstrates a lack of clear thought to convey one simple message.

A lack of deep ideological or intellectual commitment might also help explain both Cameron's early, and apparently sincere, engagement with Red Toryism and his later rejection of it in government — a mere window - shopper in the world of ideas, Cameron eventually got distracted and found something that better suited his needs.

Their answers reflect what we've previously reported, that many Rockaway residents are deeply disaffected by what they perceive as the mayor's lack of interest or engagement in their community and it's post-Sandy challenges.

It's notable that Cuomo is engaging in these races, although that engagement is tempered by the lack of appearing in person.

Afua Atta - Mensah, executive director of Community Voices Heard and a Working Families Party (WFP) leader, who is the child of Ghanaian immigrants, ran for district leader in Central Harlem in 2015 due to neglect of the West African population and lack of youth engagement.

These stories only serve to strengthen the argument that Britain is sacrificing its sovereignity through further engagement in Europe; more clear and easily accessible information on financial arrangements and, if lacking in transparency, reformation of these institutions could shake Britain out of its comfort zone and force us into serious public consideration of the Euro.

Afganistan: David Cameron has consistently made the case for continued engagement in Afghanistan but - with Liam Fox - has complained about a lack of clarity in the mission.

«Social media information is of particular concern given the fluid nature of online engagement, the lack of specificity in this notice, and the potential impact on applicants for inadvertent failure to disclose information,» the letter said.

«In a phone call, withdrawal could be non-fluid speech, lack of engagement,» he says.

Kind of, but not in the way you may expect, Razavi says: «While none of these sleep trackers (such as Fitbit) have been scientifically validated or endorsed by AASM (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) or can tell about the underlying cause and diagnoses of a lack of sleep, they are still useful as far as increasing the sleep awareness and engagement of the public.»

In a typical fMRI data set acquired during resting - state, BOLD (blood - oxygen level - dependent) signals often exhibit strong correlations between distant brain areas despite a lack of external stimuli or a cognitive engagement [1]--[3].

What to say of a work that, for all its rapture with the sheer possibilities of the image, wholly retools the typical workings of cinema's less - heralded half, such that the act of listening is elevated to a level of immersive engagement that has perhaps been lacking in theaters, again, since Sunrise?

Allegedly, it received a US theatrical release in late February, but as the lack of an official box office tally suggests, this had to have been a beyond limited engagement at best.

Addiction — spending an excessive amount of time online, resulting in lack of healthy engagement in major areas of life.

Organizers of the XQ project seemed to understand instinctively that public engagement, media communications, and grassroots authenticity would be integral to their success and that these elements had been lacking in nearly every other previous education initiative.

This change in approach arose out of school - based evaluation that identified a lack of engagement and motivation in students which was impacting on student learning outcomes and behaviour.

The common pain point in online learning has always been one aspect — lack of interactivity to drive learner engagement.

Lack of engagement is one issue training managers have to contend with in online training.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

Training's «gamification» is growing faster, and companies have more interest in new training's trends and content to answer the lack of engagement of their learners.

He believes that one of the real issues in today's education system is the «lack of authentic student engagement in schools» and that technology can be the bridge between learning and awe, which can increase student engagement.

A lack of student engagement and participation in extra-curricular activities is a major issue facing schools.

Even still these dynamics are quickly changing, it seems that it is other reasons, which have resulted in lack of local engagement or relevancy to the conflict.

Time and time again, I've heard educators say that the lack of parental engagement in their schools is what is...

Research suggests that EL families» socioeconomic status, lack of social connectivity, language barriers, differing cultural perspectives about family engagement in education, and lack of familiarity with U.S. school procedures are all factors that constrain EL families» awareness of school options and opportunities.

Usually it's students lacking in cultural knowledge who have trouble with engagement and understanding; they sometimes struggle to clear hurdles because they don't get some of the countless allusions many of us take for granted.