Sentences with phrase «more opportunities for young people»
This fantastic partnership will create thousands more opportunities for young people to benefit from NCS.»
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The summits have educated, motivated and empowered young people to create positive change, promote inclusion and provide more opportunities for young people to take part in sport.
Education secretary Damian Hinds has announced a package of measures designed to raise education standard by supporting underperforming schools and offering more opportunities for young people.
Truss will bring together over 30 food sector experts and employers to challenge the industry to provide more opportunities for young people.
Speaking to The Stage, Samuel West, National Campaign for the Arts chair, said that «Scotland is showing England the way forward» and called on education funders and policy makers to provide more opportunities for young people to experience live art.
The Maker Education Initiative was created to provide «more opportunities for all young people to develop confidence, creativity, and interest in science, technology, engineering, math, art, and learning as a whole through making.»
Rhodes said his priorities include job creation, economic growth, education, affordable housing and providing more opportunities for young people in the district.
There will be more opportunities for young people in Wales to try shooting sports and learn more about other countryside activities this spring.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, Mrs May said: «We need a proper industrial strategy that focuses on improving productivity, rewarding hard - working people with higher wages and creating more opportunities for young people so that, whatever their background, they go as far as their talents will take them.
Not exact matches
- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.
If we don't throw more support behind entrepreneurship, young people will continue to flee the island for opportunities elsewhere instead of staying here and contributing to our future growth.
«There are a great many young people considering forgoing the traditional post-secondary education route in favor of less debt, more employer - sponsored training, and more employment opportunities [according to the Universum research],» said China Gorman, newly installed as Universum's chairman of the board for North America and former chief operating officer and interim CEO at the Society for Human Resource Management.
That's why we wanted to work with Starbucks and together find a way to use this new space to be so much more than a coffee shop, but a hub for the kind of opportunities that might help a young person get their start.»
Schools and colleges were established in great numbers, and more and more young people took advantage of this great new opportunity for upward movement on the ladder of success.
There are high opportunities in vocations of Christian leadership such as the ministry, the mission field, and Christian education, and many more young people should be entering them; there are also rich opportunities for Christian service and witness in an endless number of occupations to which God calls the layman.11
Enhance their emotional intelligence: Kids learn about people by being around them especially their peers, so set up play dates for young kids or sign up older kids up for team sports and other extracurricular activities so they have more opportunities to socialize.
This may be a particularly attractive option for adolescents who are preparing to leave the family home for a more independent living arrangement, for young adults with disabilities who prefer to be with people their own age, or even aging populations with mild to moderate memory loss because it gives them an opportunity to experience new surroundings, different expectations, peer relationships and even cognitive and emotional stimulation.
More than 7 in 10 Long Islanders said there is now less economic opportunity for young people than 25 years ago, according to a Newsday - News 12 - Siena College poll.
I am sure that the new Government's commitment to such measures as the pupil premium and support for further education colleges and universities will give the young people of my constituency the educational opportunity that will make them more socially mobile, raise their aspirations, unlock untapped potential and let individuals take control of their own lives once more.
Lashing out at the coalition's record youth unemployment, which has reached more than one million, Labout leader Ed Miliband will accuse the Government of cutting opportunities for young people.
«Continue to attract young people here, create industry and we need more placemaking, we need more opportunities for people to be able to interact with each other, particularly in the winter time.»
The same poll revealed more than 7 in 10 Long Islanders said there is now less economic opportunity for young people than 25 years ago.
«We know young people have been leaving our region at record rates for more than 20 years in search of better opportunities,» Bellone said.
Rhodes said more must be done to provide opportunities for young people through job retraining, trade apprenticeships and increased federal aid to local universities and community colleges.
Much like his universal pre-kindergarten program, de Blasio's vast expansion of middle school after - school offerings allows more structured opportunity for young people as well as more assurance and opportunity for parents.
Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».
Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.
What's more, this also presents a huge opportunity for young people to forge a lucrative career in a growing part of the IT industry.
Key Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their support.
To continue to develop the culture of play and activity outside the school building, young people need to be provided with the opportunities for «free play» alongside the important sports and games which offer more structure.
Christine Gilbert, executive chair of Future First and a former Ofsted chief inspector, said, «Future First's new partnership with Greenergy will provide inspiring opportunities for more young people to develop their employability skills and gain a greater understanding of the world of work.
There is a huge opportunity for a much more diverse set of mentors across England and we are calling on people to sign up now, to help our young people to prepare for brighter futures.»
«Unless we are willing to provide more flexibility and choice in the last two years of high school, and more opportunities for students to pursue program options that link work and learning, we will continue to lose far too many young people along the path to graduation,» he says.
«This is a wonderful opportunity for her but more importantly for the knowledge and understanding she can bring to our young people on her return.
«It is a real shame that outdoor education opportunities have decreased for many young people but we are proud to be one of the leading providers of outdoor education in the country, and given the positive impact of such opportunities on children and young people, we are keen to work with other schools, academy trusts and education providers to ensure that more students have access to outdoor learning.»
This provides at least the opportunity for the awarding organisations to develop more up to date specifications that better reflect the needs of young people and the country.
Arsenal in the Community is partnering up with the University College London's Institute of Education (IOE) to provide more reading opportunities for young people in north London to help them become «great readers».
by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Chair Phil George, commented: «It's more important than ever that we provide opportunities for young people to enrich their lives through artistic expression.
«Play Unified provides the opportunity to bring young people together and, by placing us with the direct responsibility to bring about change, we are able to create more opportunities for all of us.
Dr Jackie Cornish, national clinical director for children and young people at NHS England, said the pilot was an opportunity for CCGs and schools to work together more closely and trial «a new way of thinking».
Caroline White, Chief Executive of YHA (England and Wales), commented: «YHA has been creating learning outside the classroom since we started more than 80 years ago and, because of our Breaks for Kids bursary fund, financial circumstances don't stop young people benefitting from these brilliant opportunities.»
Government and schools should be working to create more of a level playing field of opportunity for young people to progress.»
Lord Nash, Under Secretary of State for Schools, said: «It's more important than ever to give our young people the opportunities they deserve.
The announcement last week included support for underperforming schools alongside a package of measures to offer young people more opportunities to make the best of their lives in social mobility «cold spots».
A range of measures outlined by education secretary Justine Greening are set to improve education and opportunities for all children and young people, as well as encourage more teachers into schools.
We know that tooth decay is an extremely common oral disease affecting children and young people in the UK, so we were keen to come up with an activity that teaches them the importance of oral hygiene, whilst giving them the opportunity to come up with something that makes brush time more fun for all.
Enlisting Students to Make the Internet Safer The potential dangers to young people using the Internet become more real every day — yet, so do the opportunities for enrichment.
The festival presents a fantastic opportunity for young people to make the connections they will need when they leave school and to find out more about the areas they're interested in.
Schools may feel that with the loss of a familiar structure they may not be able to deliver all that they need to under the new requirements for SEN. My view is that the removal of these structures will allow schools to have more freedom in how they interpret their own arrangements to identify, assess and deliver the provision for children and young people with SEN.. There is an opportunity here for schools to become very creative in demonstrating what that provision may look like by applying a graduated approach.