Sentences with phrase «last academic year at»

-LSB-...] out «Bring a SRL to School Day» which took place last academic year at three Ontario law schools.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

It boasts five institutes focused on everything from business ethics to building sustainable enterprises, while at least 10 professors published relevant papers in academic journals last year.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

«I achieved a Distinction in my Art Foundation Degree at MMU last academic year.

The President, Nana Akufo - Addo speaking as the special guest of honour at the 60th - anniversary celebrations of the Okuapeman School at Akropong Akuapem last Saturday, announced government's intention to «fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards».

SU's Graduate Student Organization re-elected its president and finalized its budget at its last meeting of the 2017 - 18 academic year.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

Inaugurated last year with the first annual Buffalo Public Schools Science Week, this year's greatly expanded program begins at the start of the new academic year.

It has already been reported that Alimohammadi, a theoretical particle physicist at the University of Tehran, was one of 240 academics at the institution who had declared their support for Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main opponent of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in last year's election.

Last year's judges — a group of journalists, computer scientists, philosophy professors, and other academics — each sat at a computer screen split down the middle, with one chat on each side.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

The connection was forged after the academic from Denmark's University of Aalborg presented his study findings at last year's Excellence in Professional Practice Conference.

Twenty - two per cent of education staff believes that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech while at school in the last academic year.

But the strategy has produced steady results: a decade ago, Denver had the lowest rates of academic growth among Colorado's medium and large districts; for the last three years it has ranked at the top.

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

Keith B. Geiger, the union's president from 1989 until last year, is close to being named the head of academic affairs at the U.S. Information Agency, a spokeswoman for the agency said last week.

Over a fifth (22 %) of education staff believe that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech * while at school in the last academic year, according to a poll of 345 members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

While reading and math proficiency scores are low at Garfield, Garfield was recognized last year for its improvements in academic achievement.

The test was administered last spring at the end of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

That, despite widespread criticism of at least one of the two companies, K12 Inc., which, last year, reportedly settled a $ 168 million lawsuit with the state of California over allegations that it misled state leaders over academics and attendance in order to guzzle more public cash.

When the campaign launched last school year, it offered every low - income student at Oakland High and Coliseum College Preparatory Academy up to $ 16,000 if they met academic and attendance requirements, applied for federal financial aid and demonstrated community service or leadership.

In a Pre / K Question and Answer session at a professional development session last month, 70 percent of the Pre / K teachers raised their hands when asked if they had students whose parents were in prison for part of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

According to analysis from legislative staff, the state currently requires that a charter school must meet at least one of five criteria to receive renewal, including having attained its Academic Performance Index growth target in the prior year or in two of the last three years or in the aggregate for the prior three years.

Students at this school are making more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.

Title IIA, funded at $ 2.3 billion last year, supports professional learning that improves both the content knowledge and practice of teachers in all academic areas as well as professional learning targeted directly to the specific needs of school principals and assistant principals.

Government expenditures on K - 12 education have more than doubled over the last 40 years (adjusted for inflation), and yet U.S. students» academic performance at the end of high school is flat.

Students at this school are making far more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.

But the school will also likely receive bonus points to increase that score even further — it was awarded 10 two years ago, and 7.5 last year — based on academic growth shown by its at - risk students.

The researchers looked at a group of borderline kids, the last few eighth - graders who made the cut - off to go to an elite school and the first few who didn't; that meant there was little if any academic difference between them when they started their freshman year.

Neelys Bend and Madison Middle Schools both struggle with high mobility rates, with more than two out of five children spending less than the whole year at the schools last year, statistically hurting those students» academics.

Less than one in four primary pupils reached the expected standard in science last year, according to figures buried in a data release at the end of the last academic year.

He warns that with only a few weeks to go before the start of the academic year «there is no guarantee that a flood of high quality applicants will turn up at the last minute».

(«Tradition» may be the wrong word here — an academic study at a California university made the case that the Journal had published exactly the same one - page story in every issue for the last fifty years.

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To give just one example, I have seen investors argue in support of Buy - and - Hold on grounds that it is supported by academic research and then insist that a ban on discussion of the last 30 years of research be adopted at the boards at which they participate.

It is through the efforts of courageous academics and artists within the last thirty or so years that artist like myself can proudly claim our Caribbean seat at the table.

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Not only that, but the Rose's galleries have been rehung for the new exhibitions by Dabney Hailey, the museum's first director of academic programs, who came to the Rose last year after eight years as a curator at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College.

Following last year's remarkable influx of seven new full - time, tenure - track faculty members across three academic branches, the reinvestment in teaching resources at The Cooper Union continues

An artist and academic, he has shown regularly at Anthony Reynolds, even exhibiting a group of repetitive pattern, field paintings last year.

Meanwhile the Hawaii projects are the latest deployment of solar and energy storage in combination at US academic facilities, with other recent developments reported by this website including SimpliPhi Power delivering 1.4 MWh of solar - powered air conditioning to schools also in Hawaii while the likes of Jigar Shah's Generate Capital and Green Charge (now known as ENGIE Storage) delivering solar - plus - storage systems for schools in California last year.

A study last year by Mark Bauerlein looked at books and essays in English literature at several public American universities, and found the vast majority attracted very little attention from other academics.

In the last two years, at least a dozen upstart Web sites, academic papers and blogs have stepped in with surveys of their own to feed the hunger for information on everything from the quality of the faculty to what a school's diploma might be worth to future employers.

Having been through both conventional graduate school and law school in the last ten years, I can assure you that while the academic rigor of law school could certainly improve (which has always been the case), law schools need not hang their collective heads in shame at wanting to recognize their programs as graduate in nature.

Over the last twenty years, there has been increasing criticism of a lack of transparency in the system of appointment: the criticism has not been levelled at candidates considered to be unqualified, but rather at the way in which candidates were chosen and then announced — given the increasing importance of the Supreme Court's decisions, a number of political and academic critics argued that the traditional system was flawed.

As reported by ESR News in May 2010, the former student was indicted last year on 20 counts of larceny, identity fraud, falsifying an endorsement or approval, and pretending to hold a degree, and was «untruthful» in his applications for scholarships and in falsifying transcripts that detailed an impressive academic career at top educational institutions.

In the last year, Ian Young, a reporter at the South China Morning Post highlighted how the Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, run by UBC business professor Tsur Somerville — the academic most often quoted in the media regarding Vancouver's housing issues — receives part of its funding from developers.