Sentences with phrase «latest academic thinking»

Companies also value the fact that graduates give them access to fresh perspectives and the latest academic thinking, says Nick Brown, head of graduate recruitment at Shell.

Not exact matches

When colleagues at academic conferences marvel at the latest of my seven pregnancies, my immediate reaction — so they don't think I am the world's worst professor and colleague — is to tell them that I have never, ever taken standard maternity leave.

Some of the ideas he has brought to light — that preschool is a great government investment given the payoff later in life, that building character matters as much for success as academics — are so deeply ingrained in my own thinking that it's hard to remember I had to learn them somewhere.

But new research that suggests breastfeeding can significantly improve academic achievement later in life is offering food for thought on the impact of neonatal nutrition.

Almost 50 years and many professional achievements later — including serving as the first principal of the first postsecondary institution in southeastern Nigeria and founding the International Conference on Thinking — Maxwell's academy in which both athletics and academics are emphasized is becoming a reality thanks to an invitation from the National Olympic Committee of Albania, a country that is among the 100 nations that have never won an Olympic medal.

Clifford Adelman, a researcher whose work for the U.S. Department of Education in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound academic preparation for college, says that although occupational certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to earn them.

Latest thinking suggests that the physical environment in academic buildings has a direct influence on academic work, the nature of the community, and the culture that exists within it, «transforming space into place» and contributing to sustainability goals.

Teaching students that they are the «conductors of their own brains» conveys the need to master a wide range of thinking and learning tools for use across core academic subjects, in their personal lives, and later in their college years and careers.

Lest she think these are anomalies, she could then attend an event at the American Enterprise Institute, read about the latest research on the importance of cultural field trips in Education Next, or speak to academics and policy analysts like Anthony Bryk, Andrew J. Coulson, Jay P. Greene, Rick Hess, Paul Peterson, Mike Petrilli... you get the point.

These academic programs, some for use in - school, some after - school, and some in place of school subjects, are often life - savers for our gifted children - something they can really dig into, and learn the thinking and reasoning skills so valuable later in their school careers and lives...

Literacy is the foundation on which all academic success is built, opening access to challenging subject matter and critical thinking in later grades and life pursuits after high school graduation.

«I think Justice Hugo Black was right to say that First Amendment rights «must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish»; and the same is true of academic freedom principles, flowing both from the First Amendment rights of public university employees and from their tenure contracts and professional norms.