Sentences with phrase «large numbers of academies»

The upshot is that a movie that is highly ranked by a large number of Academy voters can wind up beating one that gets more first - place votes.

We recognise that the organisation is facing some big tasks: we have taken on a large number of academies, some of which had faced difficulties historically, but we have been seeing improvement over time.

«There is an urgent need for E-Act to take action to tackle underperformance in a relatively large number of academies in the trust and to ensure that pupils» achievement rises to a good standard.»

Not exact matches

Considering the large number of recording artists who will be in attendance at the Grammys, and the many thousands of photos and videos that will be taken during the event, the Recording Academy will be able to rely on the Watson artificial intelligence platform to sort through reams of content and «create unique fan experiences» with the type of speed and efficiency that would be impossible for humans to do manually.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The Academy has a large number of Bailey's photographs in their Archives taken on his trips all over the United States and Canada with the intention of recording a variety of species of birds in their natural habitat.

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing has designed a spaceplane that can be scaled up to carry a large number of people, academy rocket scientist Lui Haiquang told the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, lasAcademy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing has designed a spaceplane that can be scaled up to carry a large number of people, academy rocket scientist Lui Haiquang told the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, lasacademy rocket scientist Lui Haiquang told the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, last week.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«The way most industrial processes are designed today is by doing an exhaustively large number of experiments to find out how crystals grow and at what rate they grow under different conditions,» said UCSB chemical engineer Michael Doherty, an author of a paper that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The number of acres of forest burning yearly in large Western fires ballooned nine-fold from 1984 to 2015, with climate pollution and natural changes in the weather playing roughly equal roles in driving the deadly trend, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: Best Actress nominee Glenn Close could be in for a big Oscar telecast IF there are a large number of Irish voters in the Academy.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

The Academy is ruled by actors — their branch numbering over double any of the second largest branches.

The actors are the Academy's largest branch, doubling or even tripling number of members in any other branch.

But there are over 6,000 academy members, each of whom have to watch a large number of films before entering their ballot, so it's likely they weren't planning to fill their ballots until the last minute.

Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 276 new members into the organization on Friday — 100 more than were included in the 2012 invitees — including a large number of minorities and women, such as Rosario Dawson, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Peña, Danny Trejo and Chris Tucker in the actors branch.

The employee number threshold has not yet been set, so it is unclear how many organisations this will effect, but it is likely to affect a number of large academy chains and education organisations with charitable status, including exam boards.

According to Joe Scaife, Chair of Kreston's Academies Group and a partner at Bishop Fleming, the UK's second largest accountants for Academy schools: «The latest survey reveals staff costs and pupil numbers are not being covered by government funding alone, meaning academies have to look for cost savings on top of those they have already Academies Group and a partner at Bishop Fleming, the UK's second largest accountants for Academy schools: «The latest survey reveals staff costs and pupil numbers are not being covered by government funding alone, meaning academies have to look for cost savings on top of those they have already academies have to look for cost savings on top of those they have already achieved.

The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.

Addressing these concerns is particularly important given that academy trusts are educating increasing numbers of children and handling large amounts of public money, according to a report on academy trust finances published by the committee today.

However, the Department for Education was not sufficiently prepared for the financial implications of such a rapid expansion, or for the challenge of overseeing and monitoring such a large number of new academies,» stated Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office.

Size: Fifth largest school district in California with 62,000 students and covering 320 square miles Number of High Schools: 9 Number of Career Academies: 17 (15 funded by CPA, 2 unfunded) Number of Career Pathways: 5 (Artswork, Business Careers, Engineering / Building Trades, and Visual and Performing Arts) Number of Student Participating: 2,623

The burgeoning growth in the number of schools converting to academy status will mean that a large number of new individuals — from business and from the community at large — will be drawn into these schools» governing bodies.

Robert Hill, a former government education policy advisor and visiting senior research fellow at King's College London, told Schools Week there was a risk of more change if large numbers of struggling schools were suddenly made into academies.

We have read a large number of SoDs and, by and large, LGBs (or the more aptly named academy advisory councils) tend to have monitoring duties and a community engagement role.

The schools and academies most likely to experience the tsunami are inevitably those where there are a larger number of young people with low prior attainment — or those students for which a C grade is truly aspirational.

The report said that while large trusts did tend to have a higher number of sponsored academies and so might need to «act more quickly» to remove a head, this didn't explain all the difference.

«We're now on 23 academies and three - and - a-half thousand children, whereas I think some of the larger ones have got a similar number to us but over 10,000 children,» Cowland said.

A large number of accounting frauds perpetrated by Academies, Free Schools, and MATs have been reported in the press, including in Schools Week.

Many schools serve large numbers of disadvantaged students, but Children's First Academy is unique: One hundred percent of the students and families are at the poverty line and 40 percent are homeless, which includes students in shelters, transitional housing and multiple families living under one roof.

Challenge + Arts Infusion = Transformative Opportunities Lighthouse Academies is the second largest Charter Management Organization based on the number of states in which we operate.

Stockwood Park academy and Chalk Hills academy, both in Bedfordshire and both run by the Shared Learning Trust, also had large numbers of pupils move to the Studio School Luton, but dwindling pupil numbers forced its closure in March last year.

Labour had argued that the academies programme was already hitting problems, with a number of large - scale trusts being sanctioned for failing to improve results fast enough.

Will they have to be unmanageably large to take in the number of new academies?

«The Chief Statistician has concluded that we are unable to publish the «Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools 2011 - 12: Wales and England Comparison» bulletin this year due to the current changing education policy landscape in England and the large numbers of schools moving to academy status in - year and therefore out of local government control,» the spokesperson added.

This morning, I was pleased to find out that GEO's two Indianapolis charter schools employ the most TFA members of any charter school in the city, and that GEO Academies are the 2nd largest employer of TFA members in Indianapolis period with Indianapolis Public Schools being the number one employer.

The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one of the most vulnerable groups of pupils — those with special needs — do not make it into leading academy trusts in such large numbers.

This in - residence academy uses classroom and hands - on instruction with a large number of horses to teach a systematic approach for equine cruelty investigators.

Kiefer's new works for the exhibition will incorporate a number of large - scale paintings and sculptures, including a major installation for the Royal Academy's courtyard.

Ayas is a Board member of Rijksakademie; a curatorial advisory board member of PAC (Milan); Jan Van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), Collectorspace (Istanbul), SAHA (Istanbul), and Art Review Asia; a curator at large of Spring (Hong Kong) and is a regular jury member and speaker at a number of fairs including Art Rotterdam, Art Brussels, Artissima, and Art Basel.

But, I'm a bit confused: After all, aren't a large majority of scientists, and a compelling number of leading scientific organizations, and the national academies of sciences of many countries, telling us that we need to quickly transition to forms of energy that don't spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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