Sentences with phrase «long years of education»

When you're searching for careers or jobs in high demand, keep in mind that some of these careers require long years of education and professional expertise.

Not exact matches

«Those at the higher end of wealth distribution, with better education, income, and health care, can expect to live three or four years longer.»

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

As the One - Year Executive MBA program is considered a full - time program, Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) can use the Life Long Learning Plan (LLP) to finance their own education or that of their spouse / partner.

The Department of Education allows those who meet the criteria to pause their federal loan repayments for as long as three years.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

Though it's earmarked for retirement, the government allows you to take money from your RRSP penalty - free to buy your first house or fund your education, as long as you return the money into your account over the course of a fifteen year payback period.

Enrolling in REPAYE or another Department of Education income - driven repayment program can reduce your monthly student loan payments by stretching them out over as long as 25 years.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

So - called 529 college - savings plans — those state - sponsored accounts for college savers in which earnings are tax - free as long as they are used to pay for qualified higher - education expenses — typically let account holders select once a year from a number of investment options.

Downing also calls attention to the images that had been incubating for years in Lewis's fertile imagination and that suddenly came to life in the Narnia stories, and Jacobs suggests that we should hardly be surprised when a writer with a long record of concern for moral education turns to writing stories for children.

No longer cloistered in a white academic environment and thus free of the need of my professors» approval, I turned my attention to the rage I had repressed during six years of graduate education.

And I could not agree more that Newman is a vessel, whereas most university education is just long years of treading water.

While we no longer offer any programs for credit that culminate in a diploma or certificate in Waldorf Teacher education, RSC continues to provide a rich array of personal and professional development workshops, conferences and events throughout the year.

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

Education World Loses Human - Development Visionary Dr. Peter L. Benson, president and CEO of Minneapolis - based Search Institute, died Sunday, Oct. 2, after a year - long fight with cancer.

Eisenberg said he hopes to find a framework to assess the program's long - term effects «in terms of their physiology, weight, obesity rates, eating habits outside school and education potential over the next several years.

In addition, Dr. Butterfield has designed and runs a year long counseling class for the Department of Midwifery at Bastyr University, and is an officer of several boards related to perinatal services: President — PATTCh; Training and Education Director (past Chair)-- Perinatal Support of WA; State Coordinator for Postpartum Support International.

The education is deemed suitable if it «primarily equips a child for life within the community of which he is a member... as long as it does not foreclose the child's options in later years to adopt some other form of life if he wishes to do so.»

They discovered that the babies who breastfed for a year or longer had higher IQs as adults, better earnings, and higher education, regardless of how well off their family was.

Today's moms are choosing to breastfeed longer compared to just a few years ago because of the increases in education and support which continue to improve.

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

Last year, in fact, about 10,200 people went on the hour - long museum tour or participated in any of the 36 programs, according to Ellen Farrell, education coordinator for the museum.

The logic behind this (as I remember it from one of Clegg's speeches) was that by the time the child reaches 18 years old, a lump - sum windfall may deliver a short - term benefit but will be of little use in the long - run if they had a poor education.

«And, I hope he will put forth measures long supported by the members of our conference to help families afford the rising cost of child care and higher education that are sensible, paid for, and don't pierce the spending limits we've maintained over the last six years,» Flanagan said.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, who chairs the Education Committee, is calling for Michael Long, who heads the state's Conservative Party, to step down as board chair of Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn after a 13 - year - old student there, Daniel Fitzpatrick, hanged himself on August 11.

ALBANY — Growth in school taxes on Long Island and statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses.

The UK can no longer claim to offer a world - class education system, a comparison of international achievement among 15 - year - olds suggests.

The EMA payment offered youths in households which earn less than # 30,800 a year weekly payments of between # 10 and # 30 as long as they stay in education.

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

New figures published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of people wishing to study in the UK long - term have fallen to their lowest level since 2007, following a 16 % fall in applications to study at further education and other institutions last year.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said in a statement, «Dr. Brown was the longest - serving member of NYSED's Technical Advisory Committee, joining when it was founded in 1992 - 93 and serving until this year.

Not so Corbyn who turned up for his launch at the Institute of Education with just two, Kate Osamor and Rebecca Long Bailey, neither of whom has done anything particularly memorable since being first elected to parliament at last year's general election.

The BOOKS FOR KIDS campaign will kick off this year with a media announcement on Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 a.m. at the Olmsted Center for Sight's Early Education Program (OCS EEP), a long - time beneficiary of BOOKS FOR KIDS.

When Carmen Fariña stepped into the role of schools chancellor in 2014, she brought sanity back to New York City public education after 12 long years of Michael Bloomberg's disastrous business - knows - best chancellors.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO»S Eileen Buckley says students performed songs they wrote after a long school year of learning the tough Common Core Standards.

A group of veteran charter school proponents has filed with the State Education Department to take over East High and Waterfront, dropping union contracts and adding longer school days and longer school years.

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

What are the short and long term implications for essential services, local taxpayers and the state's economy of the freezes and cuts in revenue sharing with cities, towns and villages and in state aid to education have helped the state to balance its own budgets in recent years?

«While we still have much work to do to address the high costs of pensions and healthcare, the main drivers of expense to local governments, this year's executive budget keeps our funding for cities stable and begins smart investments into infrastructure and education which will pay long term dividends to all New Yorkers,» Miner said.

This led to a years - long effort that Wyndham spearheaded in which AAAS established 17 multidisciplinary organizations seeking to outline ways scientific organizations, across disciplines, could consistently deliver quality education in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine and boost the diversity of those participating in the field.

This is the result of the shortcomings of the Italian undergraduate education system: 88 % of students take longer than the scheduled 4 or 5 years to achieve a laurea (on average they need 2 or 3 more years), and over 60 % of freshmen drop out (1998 figures).

Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

In the past few years, reports by several prestigious bodies have warned that an impending shortage of scientists, engineers, and technical personnel at least partly caused by inadequate K - 12 science education threatens the nation's long - standing scientific leadership in an increasingly competitive, globalized world.

The more years of education people have, the longer it takes for them to fall victim to memory - robbing diseases like Alzheimer's.

Civic groups contend that the education ministry should follow another ICRP recommendation, which states that exposure limits for long - term residence in contaminated areas after an accident should be kept «in the lower part of the 1 - 20 mSv / year» range.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.