Sentences with phrase «learning institutions find»

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Though a Catholic text (carrying an imprimatur), non-Catholic Christians and Jews would doubtless find much of interest in it, many valuable insights, and perhaps even inspiration in developing similar materials for use in their own institutions of learning.

The intellectual climate of institutions of higher learning is apparently less naturalistic and humanistic than a decade or two ago, but where this mood still is found, the counterclaims of Christian faith must be persuasively though never dogmatically set forth.

The earliest institutions of higher learning in the United States were Christian schools, founded by Christians, for Christian education.

As New Urbanists came to realize that existing zoning ordinances, street design manuals and housing industry practices were all impediments to making traditional towns and neighborhoods, they began developing new kinds of zoning ordinances; found sympathetic traffic engineers to help write a different set of street design standards; renewed the practice of creating high - quality pattern books to guide home - builders; and learned how to persuade lending institutions of the economic advantages of financing traditional neighborhoods.

But I came to see that it is far easier to create this society for yourself than to find it in institutions of higher learning.

Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University, the other new nonsectarian institution of higher learning, grieved over a government report that as of 1876 there were 545 degree - granting institutions in the country.

And now, out of that galaxy of institutions founded by believers so that faith could house and nurture learning, there are few — very few — that in any effective and outright way are confessional.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

«Our agencies in charge of educational development must find a way of encouraging our youth to aspire learning in the country's institutions but as well attract foreign students and researchers so that our global ranking of universities can soar,» Buhari said.

She also learned of a survey conducted at her institution that found that 40 % of the school's international postdocs had experienced workplace conflicts — twice the rate of their domestic peers.

The mentoring project was a one - off, but institutions looking to learn from their pilot scheme can find an e-mentoring toolkit in Premia's library.

However, one American institution of higher learning may have found the answer we've all been looking for.

I find external consulting rewarding on two fronts: 1) helping others in the profession improve what they are doing at their institutions; and 2) learning about how other institutions have approached providing research development services (what is working, what isn't really working).

Columbia University in the City of New York, founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate At first glance, the state of Utah — 60 percent Mormon and home of the LDS church — looks like the wrong place to study what I like to call the man deficit.

The research findings will be used to develop educational outreach initiatives, distributed widely, to support other formal and informal learning institutions in their use of digital badges to support STEM learning.

Building on their prior work — a January 2014 report describing the first year of open online courses launched on edX, a nonprofit learning platform founded by the two institutions — the latest effort incorporates another year of data, bringing the total to nearly 70 courses in subjects from programming to poetry.

And in fact, we see a fuller pattern emerging quickly: as much as there are fancy statistics waved at us by the mobile learning (mLearning) evangelists, there are counter studies (mostly conducted in educational institutions) that find that the presence of devices detracts from the learning.

The variety of educational institutions found in the UK now, with three different kinds of academies, four major types of maintained schools, as well as independent and grammar schools, means there is even more distinct variations in approaches to teaching and learning, ethos and goals.

The study also found that parents empowered by choice became «more likely to see a connection between education and the civic institutions of society, to say that their children were learning how government works, and to be involved themselves in civic activities.»

Excelsior College in upstate New York, founded in 1971, is one of the oldest distance - learning institutions in the country.

But whether an education institution seeks LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, strives to meet criteria set forth by the Collaborative from High Performance Schools, or simply follows their own green design path, most schools and universities remain vigilant about finding ways to create facilities that provide a suitable learning environment while using less energy.

A study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on undergraduate education in the United States reported «one of our most disturbing findings is the discontinuity that exists between the public schools and institutions of higher learning» (Boyer, 1986, 284).

These programs can be found in higher learning institutions such as colleges, universities, and community colleges.

Founded by a group of IIMA alumni, with ample personal experience of educational institutions, Educational Initiatives (EI) is an effort to ensure every child learns with understanding.

Identity - theft experts have found that victims learn about the crime only when the financial institution calls them about the late payment, they receive written notification of a late payment, or a marshal shows up at their home to evict them.

CalArts was founded in 1961 and opened in 1969 as the first institution of higher learning in the United States specifically for students interested in the pursuit of degrees in all areas of visual and performing arts.

This coveted institution of higher learning for students pursuing architecture, art or engineering not only offers a 9:1 student - to - faculty ratio, but grants every student a full - tuition scholarship, as it has done since its founding in 1859.

What I came to see was that finding ways of improving access to and the use of learned works was the long - standing cause of institutions, endowments, translation movements, and print technologies.

The comparison of TWU with other (originally) religiously founded universities: There is a significant difference between a religious group having paid to found an institution — after which those who teach and learn there have academic freedom — and a religious group founding an institution and demanding that all who attend follow the precepts of that religion.

First, LRW faculty at our institution believe it is critical for students to become part of the basic discourse community first — to learn how to find and find meaning in domestic legal resources so that they can become versed in the ways United States lawyers analyze legal problems, find solutions, and convey their analysis in writing to others.

Being the primary cultural and scientific institutions for providing information as a public good, libraries play a crucial role to build bridges to books and information by helping people to learn new skills, to discover history and culture or to access remote research findings.

Teachers are commonly found in schools, colleges, institutions, and other learning centers, but they can also be found in our respective homes.

You can find our school listings below and request information from multiple institutions to learn more.

Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell was founded as the College of Idaho in 1891 and is the state's oldest four - year institution of higher learning.

In 2010, I founded the Tikkun Learning Center, an educational institution through which I train, supervise, and consult therapists in Encounter - centered Couples Therapy (EcCT).