Sentences with phrase «more academic support»

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But nearly every academic study on colors and branding will tell you that it's far more important for your brand's colors to support the personality you want to portray instead of trying to align with stereotypical color associations.

To spur innovation, some support giving academics more freedom to start entrepreneurial ventures.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

While Canada has emphasized unbridled academic research, some other countries have adopted more «applied» research programs in direct support of strategic industrial initiatives.

Instead, he said, it might make more sense for Stoneman Douglas or the Broward school district to provide students with extra academic support, like an Algebra I refresher, before they take the test.

They have allow us to invest in innovative academic and experiential programs, provide door - opening scholarships, support research that cuts through the noise, and so much more.

The university is defending the economist's academic freedom after several people with homes worth more than $ 3 million sent complaints about him supporting the tax.

Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al - Hussaini is a Muslim academic who has supported James McConnell - the Belfast pastor who was taken to court for saying... More

Through the tremendous support of our donors, the ADDF has invested more than $ 70 million to over 450 Alzheimer's drug discovery programs and clinical trials in academic centers and biotechnology companies in 18 countries.

Providing environments that support healthy emotional as well as academic growth makes it more likely that we will see kids who are not diverted from their job of becoming engaged, reasonably happy, functioning members of society.

More than 40 heads of charities and leading academics specialising in family care today publish an unprecedented call on the Government to transform support for separated families.

In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

WABA is now a global alliance with more than 300 organizational endorsers and works across the spectrum to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding — from United Nations institutions to mother support groups, with physicians, midwives, and healthcare professionals, to health ministries, from academics to activists.

There will be terms you've never heard of: academic, applied, locally developed, open, special education support, alternative education, advanced placement, international baccalaureate, English Language Learners programs, community service, and more.

Longitudinal studies show that sons with involved and supportive fathers have higher measures of academic and social adjustment than sons without such support.5 Daughters who have strong connections with their fathers during adolescence become more self - reliant and academically successful.6

Post-16 students whose additional support funding totals more than # 6,000 (if provided over the full academic year), are also classed as high needs students.

On Saturday night, Robert Ford, who co-authored a recent academic analysis of Ukip support with Matthew Goodwin, Revolt on the Right, said the findings raised new questions about next year's general election, and suggest Ukip could be even more of a threat in subsequent ones.

While appreciating your Excellency's support to the institution, like Oliver Twist, we would be humbly requesting for more and stronger support for all our academic programmes.

«More than one million international students attending U.S. colleges and universities during the 2015 - 2016 academic year supported 400,000 U.S. jobs and contributed $ 32.8 billion to the U.S. economy,» the letter said, citing data from NAFSA: Association of International Educators, a letter signatory.

As is the case in many countries, Argentina is producing more Ph.D. recipients than academic positions can support through what had been a well - worn career track, said Horn.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

If in the end the student feels that it is logistically more feasible or even more desirable to pursue another academic route, sometimes that is the best for that particular student at that time, and as a mentor, you have no choice but to support the student in that decision.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

The closer the work is to your area of study, the more significant it will be in the evaluation of your application, but even work that is not related to your academic interests may indicate that you have contributed to your own financial support while keeping up with your studies.

Parents who thought more sleep would benefit their children's health or academic performance were more likely to support the switch.

Money is an issue, but support from academic staff is more important.»

The authors said that the difficulty of retaining students may be a factor more complicated than SAI allows for, noting that improving retention rates requires significant campus resources to address a broad range of factors, including student engagement levels, academic support services, campus climate, student satisfaction, and financial aid.

But students also can benefit from more support on the academic side.»

But although the Roberts money was intended to make workers more versatile, «there has been very little support in place for those who do not carry on in an academic career,» Daley says.

In addition, collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions are becoming much more common, with pharmaceutical companies supporting Ph.D. studentships and providing placements for students in commercial laboratories.

Rick Cherwitz, associate dean at the University of Texas and director of the PDP program, believes that one way to win support from more of the university's established academics is to crank up the conversation about the importance of communication skills outside the university.

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

Dr. Williams led the Duke School of Medicine during a period notable for its ascendance from 11th to 2nd in the national rankings of NIH - grant support, a near doubling of its annual budget to more than $ 800 million, the addition of six new academic buildings, the first appointments of department chairs who are female or African - American and the founding of successful multidisciplinary institutes in genome sciences, brain sciences, global health and translational medicine.

July 7, 2016 UChicago to support NIH million - person precision medicine study The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

«Almost all our PhD students and postdocs receive support from the NIH, as members of training grant programs, as recipients of individual awards, and as participants in research by UCSF faculty, a majority of whom are affiliated with one or more of our graduate training programs,» said Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, dean of the UCSF Graduate Division and vice chancellor of student academic affairs.

Over # 1M secured from Medical Research Council to support academics engaging with industry - Read More...

The stars of film, TV and stage have also joined forces with more than 160 activists, academics and service providers, to launch the Justice and Equality Fund which will aim to resource a network of support and advocacy organisation projects across the UK.

Scholars can do as many studies as they please to determine some average age at which this foundation becomes sturdy enough to support more focused academic instruction.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

• Somers Elementary School faculty report less classroom bullying than before the program was initiated, more time in class for academic work, and strong family support.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

We'll never close the achievement gap unless schools find ways to work with more families more deeply and respectfully around key academic goals, and unless we support parents as advocates for their children's education.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

«The recommendations look to an education system where administrators are more concerned with instructional support than administrative details, where teachers are participants in the decision - making process and are provided incentives for personal growth, where students are held to strict academic...

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

And schools themselves have developed increasingly sophisticated academic responses to accountability, ranging from closer examination of curriculum and assessment alignment, to more aggressive personnel strategies, to establishing relationships with outside support organizations that provide significant academic support.