Sentences with phrase «make graduate education»

If a goal of PROSPER is, as it should be, to make graduate education more affordable or to help student borrowers better manage their loan repayments, the bill falls short.

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And it's really bad for the Canadian economy, which needs young women to fill both our population gap (by having babies) and our skills gap (by putting their considerable educations — women now make up nearly 60 % of new university graduates) to work.

He thought my education and contacts would make me a better entrepreneur once I graduated.

New guidelines on education loans will make it easier for recent graduates — and many others with student debt — to get approved in 2016.

Make sure you search for the correct loan for your education level (graduate or undergraduate).

«The data we've collected show that even though their education may make recent college graduates feel prepared to enter the workforce, only half of hiring managers agree with them; managers feel crucial skills in recent graduates are frequently lacking or absent.»

I value education in as much as it makes me more like Christ, but most seminary graduates I have met act nothing like Christ.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

Generally speaking, new college graduates will make substantially higher salaries in industry than in K - 12 education, be it public, private, or parochial.

And that includes recognizing the longterm ramifications (and the impact on the choices people are often forced to make) when as a society we increasingly individualize and download the cost of things like education onto graduates and their families.

Thacker is a driving force behind «Turning the Tide,» a new report he co-authored, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project and endorsed by over 85 major college stakeholders, including deans of admissions from the most elite American universities.

She didn't question the fact that the increased emphasis on writing and thinking — all stressful activities — at my alma mater, Hillsdale High in San Mateo, Calif., is a good thing, after I noted many of the changes were made by Stanford education school graduates.

UCU believes big business should be taxed for the substantial benefits it gains from a plentiful supply of graduates and has proposed a modest Business Education Tax for the top 4 % of companies - those who make profits of over # 1.5 m a year.

• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that high school graduates are fully prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.

President Akufo Addo insisted during the election campaign that he would make SHS education instantly free for ALL JHS graduates once elected.»

«This is unlikely to make a difference, other than to provide the governor and other leaders with cover for a pre-set agenda,» David Bloomfield, an education leadership professor at Brooklyn College and at the City University of New York Graduate Center, told POLITICO New York.

He said it was worrying that most Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) graduates fail in the core subjects, making it difficult for them to gain admission into secondary and tertiary institutions respectively.

«And I also want to respond to some rumours making rounds that because you have become a tertiary institution we are about to cancel also the automatic absorption of all graduates from the Colleges of Education, please be kindly informed that those rumours are unfounded,» he asserted.

The Board of Regents, New York State's highest education authority, voted to make it easier for some students with disabilities to graduate from high school.

Lord Browne's report «Sustaining a Future for Higher Education» published in October 2010 recommended placing more of the funding burden on «successful» graduates, with repayments being made only by graduates earning # 21,000 and above.

But he insisted: «In reality, the only way to maintain high quality higher education with less government money is for the graduate beneficiaries to make a bigger contribution from the extra earnings they enjoy later in life.

Ovia also commended their parents and guardians for the sacrifices they made to support the new graduates» education.

The National Union of Students (NUJ) has called for the current system to be scrapped and replaced by a new scheme that would see graduates making contributions depending on how much they benefit financially from their university education.

Higher graduate contributions are the «only possible way forward» to make the higher education system fairer and sustainable for the future, the Business Secretary said.

«They appear wondering whether the votes they delivered yesterday would restore light, revive dead industries, complete the uncompleted ones, give hundreds of thousands of unemployed graduates employment, pay arrears of salary to workers and guarantee regular payment of salary; whether their votes will make water to flow again in their unused and rusted water pipes, reduce dust on our roads, revive our education and health sectors and so on,» he stated.

«We hope that this report is a real wake - up call,» said Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Faculty Director of the Making Caring Common project, and lead author of the study.

«As a postdoc, you are seen as a senior member of the group and may be called upon to make a decision or speak up,» says Natalie Lundsteen, assistant director, Graduate Student Career Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Education & Career Development.

Together, these factors make the United States an appealing option for graduate education.

Focusing on reputation, however, ignores the question of how to calibrate many of the other complex elements that make up a graduate education.

Both as a graduate student and postdoc, Maryrose Franko took every opportunity to volunteer in science education which made her realize that «I have good people skills that I really enjoy using,» she says.

The discovery was made by Project Associate Professor SUETSUGU Kenji (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University), Mr. HSU Tian - Chuan (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute), independent botanical researcher Mr. TOMA Tsugutaka, Associate Professor MIYAKE Takashi (Faculty of Education, Gifu University) and Professor Richard Saunders (School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong).

It's part of an ongoing effort to persuade federal policymakers that making a bigger investment in graduate education will create more jobs and strengthen the economy.

Young scientists today are engaged in improving graduate and postdoctoral education, making science more hospitable to women and minorities, and interacting with Congress on issues of funding and professional development.

Medical schools say the order makes it harder to recruit newly minted MDs to work in hospitals as resident physicians, says Jessica Bienstock, associate dean for graduate medical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

That makes it tougher than ever to carve out time for research, says William Galey, HHMI's director of graduate and medical education.

The JST makes safety «part of your graduate education... integrated into your daily activities, not something that is separate,» says Rudd.

Our vision for sustainable chemical sciences instruction includes: Green chemistry instruction in our undergraduate lab courses; making sustainability and green chemistry a key part of graduate training; offering executive education programs in sustainable chemical practice to retrain the installed base of chemists and chemical engineers.

Cancer genetics is not yet a recognized specialty or subspecialty of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), making this fellowship program a one - of - a-kind training opportunity.

I graduated with my Masters in Elementary Education and taught for about five years before making the decision to leave teaching behind and start fresh.

These resources were developed by Making Caring Common (MCC), a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Pennsylvania State Board of Education is slated this week to vote on rules that would make the state the first to require students to master a set of learning outcomes, rather than take a prescribed number of courses, in order to graduate.

«Governor Baker has made a terrific choice in appointing Nonie Lesaux as chair of the Board of Early Education and Care,» said James Ryan, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Actually, it Doesn't, Harvard Study Finds Boston Globe, 12/11/13» «We don't teach our children Shakespeare and Dante and Tolstoy because it makes them do better in American history class or at learning the periodic table of the elements,» said Samuel Mehr, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Education who led the work.

First, it was a waste of time (over five years) and money — both the government's and WGU's — which distracted from the real need: making progress in higher education to better serve students, such as low - income ones, of whom only 8 percent graduate four - year college programs in six years.

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

Making Caring Common (MCC), a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, today released new research that suggests that many teen boys and teen girls — and some of their parents — have biases against teen girls as leaders.

«As our teacher education reforms flow through, we also want this Review to look at how teaching graduates make the transition to working in schools.

The teens are part of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) at Making Caring Common, an initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The nation's governors and business executives have tapped Harvard Graduate School of Education Lecturer Robert B. Schwartz to head the organization created to help implement the commitments made at the 1996 Education Summit.