Sentences with phrase «more global societies»

However, in our ever more global societies it is becoming clear that many of today's key education issues are international in nature and must be addressed for all students in all countries.

Yet because of the move to more global societies, many of today's key education issues must be addressed on an international scale.

The motivation of his generation to discuss the subject of recovering a German iconography for a new German identity is provoked by the trend of a nowadays more and more global society.

Not exact matches

«Girls with more schooling participate in greater numbers in the labor force when they grow up, and they are able to earn more for their families and society,» the Center for Global Development reports.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

An inexorable global rise in diabetes must be taken «more seriously» by society, according to the CFO at Novo Nordisk.

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

The purpose of the Global Opportunity Report is to demonstrate how the Opportunity Mindset can reveal the opportunities these risks also present and introduce ideas for how we can wisely use the pressure they exert to create more resilient societies.

We are shaping the Global Opportunity Network into a focal point for the growing interest in the solutions and opportunities that arise from the transition to a more sustainable society.

The panels produced more than 80 ideas for global opportunities for both society and business in addressing these five risks.

This report is a direct product of this reality, born out of a determined belief that behind every global risk the world faces hides multiple opportunities to innovate and create better, more prosperous, and sustainable societies.

We believe this has been a critical factor behind the multi-decade drop in global yields, beyond the more familiar decline in potential growth as societies age, productivity softens and central bank inflation targeting keeps price volatility in check.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

Stop the Traffik is a global coalition which already numbers more than 350 organisations including churches, community groups, other faith groups, businesses and NGOs (including Oasis Trust, Salvation Army, Tearfund, World Vision, JFCI, Christian Aid, Bible Society and Spring Harvest).

Until we achieve a more stable form of global society, there is real danger of descent into social chaos.

As the feminine emerges, so does a much richer and more healing global society, one characterized by interrelatedness, interdependency, synergistic mutual enhancement, persuasion, and so forth.

We are becoming more interdependent, and are having to learn how to become one global society whether we wish to or not.

There is no one religious symbol or concept from the past which it is essential to retain for the spirituality of the global society, any more than the language of the whole world ought to be English, Arabic, Chinese or Latin.

This redirection would require more participation by civil society as well as by government than global corporate capitalism now allows.

Such dogmatism and exclusivism have led to religious wars and crusades and more subtle forms of religious imperialism which can hardly be countenanced in a global society.

MANILA / BANGKOK, 27 October 2015 — The world's first standard for sustainable rice, which sets new and more efficient standards for rice cultivation, was launched today by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), a global alliance of agricultural research institutions, agri - food businesses, public sector and civil society organizations convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

World Association of Chefs Society, or Worldchefs, is a global network comprised of more than 90 official chefs associations.

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It is a membership based association that provides a space for civil society to meet, share knowledge and create initiatives to advocate for more democratic global health governance.

The Global Network, together with other civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements, has seized this anniversary as an opportunity for stocktaking and, more importantly, to call for renewed commitment by governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders, for the full realisation of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

However, as a slogan for global political change in the 21st century, it needs to be re-examined both in terms of its applicability to all forms of societies and for making current democratic societies more inclusive.

Even if one accepts the Cameron argument on the «global race», it suggests we dismantle our society and make it more like China or India.

Connecting a global network of more than 40,000 cancer professionals, the society serves as the leading resource for best practices in clinical oncology research and academic and community practices.

Ignorance of this risk might, e.g. through suboptimisations in technology developments, undermine the global efforts to move toward a more environmentally sustainable society.

Tom Sanders, president of the American Nuclear Society and manager of Sandia National Laboratories» Global Nuclear Futures Initiative, has been stumping for small rectors for more than a decade.

«While climate change is a major threat, more research is required before society attempts global geoengineering solutions.»

Under the theme «Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society,» more than 11,000 scientists, educators, journalists, and others explored ways to encourage research across borders.

«One of the key goals of the WSF is to ensure that evidence - based knowledge feeds into policies applied on a global, regional and local level to foster transitions to more sustainable societies»

An open access, peer - reviewed journal, the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (JITC) is the global voice of the society, producing original research articles, literature reviews and more on tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy.

«As Crohn's disease becomes more common across industrialized societies, the ENIGMA consortium will have a pivotal role in understanding and preventing the global increase of the disease,» says Garabet Yeretssian, Director of the Helmsley Charitable Trust's IBD and Crohn's Disease Program.

The more often I make conscious choices, the more impact I have in creating an ethical global society.

It discusses the impact of technology on the environment and society could move to a more global approach.

Applying the ability to manipulate thoughts on a more global scale, the organization seeks to control society at large via their cellphones.

If we consider the skills of focusing on ourselves, tuning in to others, and understanding the larger world as a framework for our thinking, imagine how the conversation about screen time could shift away from the amount of time spent with devices and toward how students might use them to become more productive citizens in a networked and global society.

Since meeting Godwaldt during Global Education Day at the 2017 International Society for Technology in Education conference, I've been keeping an eye out for more project ideas to help students take part in real - world learning.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiGlobal Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiglobal North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

Nevertheless, they also need to be taught the skills to empower themselves, form global movements, participate within society and make sure their voices are being heart while at the same time making society more transparent and democratic.

In this context, there is growing interest in global citizenship education (GCE), signaling a shift in the role and purpose of education to that of forging more just, peaceful, tolerant and inclusive societies.

The Study Abroad Scholarship will continue Dr. Yuasa's legacy and help more ICU students grow, prosper, and make a difference in our global society.»

It starts by presenting the global citizenship's features that in our view are more aligned with Brazilian society's present needs; then it shows some examples of howBrazil builds local and global citizenship through formal and non-formal education processes.

At the OECD, we believe that this assessment offers a tangible opportunity to provide the global community with the data it needs to build more peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies through education.

It starts by presenting the global citizenship's features that in our view are more aligned with Brazilian society's present needs; then it

Key insights into the future of global education were offered, including one from Jessica, Executive Director at the Asia Society: «The more we can promote understanding and perspective - taking, and encourage explanation of your own thinking while respectfully hearing others, the more opportunity there is for new thinking to emerge and communities to be strengthened.

And, in the context of a rapidly changing global knowledge society, Daly believes education needs updating to establish a more «relational research and practice agenda».