Sentences with phrase «number of students makes»

To be clear, our findings do not indicate that every performance - based funding policy fails, but that the average performance - based funding policy has no impact on the number of students making it to graduation.

On the basis of their self - assessments, a number of students make revisions to improve their reports before handing them in.

Not exact matches

Companies aren't charging students to be interns, like colleges charge them to be students, and at the end of it, an internship will make you far more marketable than an A in any number of classes.

Even so, the duo have been making great strides with the number of app downloads, and they say they've seen positive responses from students.

Making your student loan payments to Great Lakes is pretty straightforward, and borrowers have a number of options when choosing how to pay.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an increasing number of students with learning challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.

This circumstance made only the more significant the number of students who soon crowded his lecture hall, and the number of students, professors and townspeople who filled and overflowed any church where he had been advertised to preach.

I've found a number of students here who respond well to her and say they've never been able to make sense of Christianity before.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

A number of students — and some parents as well — spoke of intergenerational tensions over how to practice Islam, and indeed over how to understand the claims that Islam made on their lives.

Despite determined efforts to recruit Lutheran students, the Lutheran composition of the student body remains low — about 8 or 9 percent — mainly because our region is sparsely populated with Lutherans (but Lutheran students seem to make an impact beyond their numbers).

For example, I worked in a Hispanic community as student missionary when I was nineteen years of age and made a number of close friends my age.

The long fall and early spring typical of Columbia make possible a long season of outdoor sports, and one - hour periods guarantee the facilities will be used by a large number of students.

The other day I received an email from a neuropsychologist at a well - known New England medical center (I'll call him «Dr.. A» for short) wondering whether there was any evidence to support the recommendation made in a number of articles in our concussion center, as well as videos, that, as part of the cognitive rest a concussed student - athlete needs during concussion recovery, he or she should not play video games:

A lot of good changes were made at Gunn in preparation for school this year: - limits on AP classes - limits on the number of classes a student can take overall - changes to the overall schedule - adding skills for managing stress to the Phys Ed curriculum.

This school year, after McMinnville implemented the Community Eligibility Provision — making breakfast and lunch free for all students — Hiatt - Henry saw another uptick in the number of breakfasts served, but not to the magnitude she saw when she brought breakfast into the classroom.

Students may act out for any number of reasons, so daycare shouldn't be blamed for making children misbehave.

So we didn't find a «magic number» of AP courses that corresponded with optimal health; it really depends on the individual student, the homework load that s / he can handle given the other courses and extracurricular activities each semester, and what makes sense in terms of challenge levels and individual interests.

Of the Forty (40) federal Universities in the country, UNILORIN is number one followed by the University of Benin, South - South Nigeria with student - applicants of 81,363 made up of 39,729 of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57Of the Forty (40) federal Universities in the country, UNILORIN is number one followed by the University of Benin, South - South Nigeria with student - applicants of 81,363 made up of 39,729 of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57of Benin, South - South Nigeria with student - applicants of 81,363 made up of 39,729 of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57of 81,363 made up of 39,729 of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57of 39,729 of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57of male applicants and female applicants of 41,57of 41,571.

But that number includes students who will not end up going to SUNY, or the City University of New York, or the community colleges that, together, make up the state's public higher education system.

He reiterated the vision to make Ghana an educational hub, citing the number of foreign students who are acquiring knowledge in the various tertiary institutions in the country.

General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018 Source: Kwabena Danso - dapaah Osei Assibey Antwi, Kumasi Mayor The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated amount of five thousand Ghana Cedis to Jackson Foundation, a philanthropist organization to help increase the number of professional teachers in the country The donation was made on behalf of the Assembly when students from Jackson Educational (JEC) under the Foundation, graduated as trained teachers to assist few in the system.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

«In every corner of the state, New Yorkers, after carefully examining the difficult choices made by their school boards, voted «yes» in near record numbers on school budgets to ensure students and education programs did not suffer further harm,» NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi said.

I think an instruction to have make the fresh students day students is only a tricky strategy by government to cut down the number of boarders who will need to be provided 3 meals a day, hence cutting down cost.

Under the law, the city can not make its offer of space conditional on Success Academy's opening its doors to certain numbers of students with disabilities or limited English proficiency — students critics claim the network has ignored.

The Syracuse City School District is making strides to reduce the number of students suspended from school, after agreeing to make changes following an investigation from the state attorney general.

The large number of test refusals had an impact on teacher evaluations last school year, with student growth on state exams making up 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

The increasing numbers of commercialized organic operations — which still make up just 3 percent of total agricultural lands — appear to contribute to increased and more intense levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farmland, reports Julius McGee, a doctoral student in the UO sociology department.

This growth has made the nation's academic system number one in the world in terms of student enrollments.

An overall increase in the number of students in Higher Education without a commensurate increase in funding is placing another burden on PhD students which is making it difficult for them to get on with their research: An increasing teaching load is falling on them.

This effect has been true even in academia, in which the number of foreign students, who made up the majority of computer science (CS) departments, has dwindled in graduate schools across the country.

MD / PhD students now encounter, during the basic - science years and during their clinical rotations, an increasing number of outstanding role models who embody the career - making opportunities available in psychiatry and neurology.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

However, a growing number of universities, professional societies, and governmental science offices have put together forums, workshops, and online resources for students and postdocs to make themselves more competitive for nonacademic jobs.

Measurements made by former Ph.D. student Sarah Sharpe revealed that the snake propagates traveling waves down its body, from head to tail, creating a body curvature and a number of waves along its body that enhance its movement through the sand.

As well as knowing what the student should have said, it has a database of likely mispronunciations — such as «pet» instead of «pit» — which cuts down the number of deductions it has to make.

The number of applications and the academic competitiveness of a school's incoming class were increased by making the lists for Happy Students (2.9 percent increase) or Most Beautiful Campus (2.3 percent increase), whereas applications and competitiveness were negatively affected by being on the Least Happy Students (about a 5 percent decrease) or Unsightly, Tiny Campus lists (5.2 percent decrease).

Yet games alone will not make schools more efficient, replace teachers or serve as an educational resource that can reach an infinite number of students, he adds.

Large numbers of overseas students make higher education the nation's third - largest export sector.

The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

«In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions, you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on,» says Vincent Liu, a graduate student in Cima's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and lead author of the paper.

In addition to trying to make research accessible to large numbers of students, students are able to observe evolution in action to better understand a global health crisis, antibiotic resistance.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

Cory has been awarded a 2016 Newman Student Award Medal, for work on evaluating the acoustical properties of court rooms by comparing acoustical measurements made in a large number of court rooms to federal design criteria, as nominated by Prof. Gary Siebein.

We continue to hear this time to time from a number of graduating students that how much the course has impacted their lives, from the food they ate, the places they visited, the intensive teachings they underwent and, the friends they made.