Sentences with phrase «number of university places»

THE BRITISH government has dramatically expanded the available number of university places by declaring all polytechnic institutes to be universities.

Lord Mandelson is drawing up emergency plans to expand the number of university places by 10,000 to avoid forcing thousands of would - be students on the dole.

Not exact matches

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

«Good organizations are forecasting their human capital and looking at the demographic data — who's graduating from university, how many people are retiring and the number of people available to take their place.»

Teaching of the catechism was to take place in a number of settings: home, school, university and congregation.

If you were to visit the student ministries at some of the major universities of the Northeast (or many other places), you'd find a surprising number of Asian - Americans Christians there.

As the eviction took place, a number of students from the university gathered at the site to protest against the action.

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16 - year high.

To invest yet more huge sums of money to expand university places would seem a little bizarre, when it's hardly a secret that huge numbers of graduates are unable to find a job at all, or else end up in employment that does not justify / require having studied for a degree in the firstplace.

«The expansion of places for AAB students will lead to an even higher number of students from privileged backgrounds at our most elite institutions,» said University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

Universities can also accept an unlimited number of AAB students which has increased competition with teenagers failing to get a place if they even marginally miss out on their grades.

The statistics demonstrate the depth of the recession's impact on young people, who face the most difficult job market in decades and increased competition for university places, with a record number of applications this year.

The number of young people applying for places at university has fallen by almost 12 % ahead of next September, when tuition fees will rise to # 9,000, official figures show.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

«There has been a massive [50 percent] increase in the number of Ph.D. applicants this year — 270 applicants for six places,» says David Attwell, the University College London (UCL) neuroscientist who oversees the four - year Ph.D. fellowship program funded by the Wellcome Trust charity.

The newly placed emphasis on graduate support has helped to boost the numbers of Ph.D. s graduating from Chinese universities (see figure 1).

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

Meeting attendees were told about a number of initiatives to help CRS in place at Cambridge, Oxford, and University College, but Judith Secker of Oxford University admitted that many researchers are aware of these schemes «more through their breech than their observance.»

While there are sufficient applicants to fill all these places, [the] country doesn't have sufficient number of science leaders who are willing to go to these new institutes and universities and mentor young faculty.»

In an article published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's Professor Robert Sinclair, he suggests that there still is a place in science in modern times for the interpretation of results using rational numbers or simple ratios.

Reasoning that previous studies may have missed infected bonobo populations, a team led by Beatrice Hahn, MD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted a more extensive survey, increasing both the number and places they sampled wild bonobo populations.

University of Texas, Austin, political scientist Gary Freeman placed the politics of skilled immigration into the category that political scientists term «client» politics, in which the benefits of particular governmental actions accrue to a small number of groups or individuals while the costs diffuse more widely over people who may not even realize that they are being harmed.

Who: Dana Desonie, Proposal Manager Where: Arizona State University Number of years in research development: 3 + Length of NORDP membership: 3 Number of NORDP conferences attended: 2 What is the most interesting place you've visited?

There are memoranda from an international video conference that took place in February 2012, attended by a number of employees of KI and Karolinska University Hospital.

Who: Monica F. Vidal, Ph.D., Research Development Specialist Where: Stanford University Number of years in research development: 7 Length of NORDP membership: 2 Number of NORDP conferences attended: 1 What is the most interesting place you've visited?

Like London, Cambridge is horrendously expensive, but the number of properties available in the city is also tiny (as the University owns most of the real estate), so places were selling within minutes of hitting the market.

The University of Wisconsin - Madison professor got that number by adding up the components a school needs to have in place to implement Modern Red Schoolhouse, one of seven improvement designs being underwritten by New American Schools, a nonprofit corporation based in Arlington, Va..

There is also evidence that the number of university applicants identifying teaching as their first preference has been quite stable over recent years, suggesting that a growing number of students are entering teaching after failing to obtain a place in their course of first choice.

A record number of Scottish pupils have gained a university place on exam results day, according to UCAS.

As a result, universities are no longer guaranteed funding for a set number of student places.

The government will halve the number of university teaching places and also increase the time to complete an education degree.

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

She says, «Whether they like to admit it or not, college prep schools often are greatly affected by AP exam scores, SAT test scores, and the number of students they can place in prestigious universities.»

Moving up the rankings By electing to treat students as customers and adopting a commercial market approach to customer service, Edge Hill University's in - house FM team not only saw the institution leap nine places on the higher education rankings table within a year — from 95th place to 84th — but also made a number of cost savings.

It's not the number of days, it's the quality of experience, it's the quality of the relationship between the university and the schools where it's candidates are being placed.

Students on the musical theatre and drama courses at Tring Park have received offers from a number of different places including the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Arts Educational Schools, London, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Penn State, Boston Conservatory and Exeter University.

33,000 new school places created as number of free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges opened since 2011 passes 500.

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

These will begin with pilot projects, with a so far unspecified number of places, which will see incentives for young people to sign up for teaching before going to university.

The Department for Education wants more training taking place in schools, which means the number of places allocated to universities will fall sharply.

James Noble - Rogers from the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers said universities needed to be able to make more long - term plans for the number of teacher training places they Universities Council for the Education of Teachers said universities needed to be able to make more long - term plans for the number of teacher training places they universities needed to be able to make more long - term plans for the number of teacher training places they could offer.

The only sure way to widen participation is to increase the number of available places at universities.

A record number of nearly 2,700 sixth formers from state schools and colleges from across Britain have applied this year for 644 places at five free week - long summer schools which the Sutton Trust sponsors for students from non traditional backgrounds at top universities.

James Noble - Rogers (pictured right), executive director of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, said: «The government must do more to protect the teacher education supply base by allocating training places to universities in a way that will allow them to plan strategically over a numbUniversities Council for the Education of Teachers, said: «The government must do more to protect the teacher education supply base by allocating training places to universities in a way that will allow them to plan strategically over a numbuniversities in a way that will allow them to plan strategically over a number of years.

We'll place the SAT at the center of high school accountability with more than half of a school's performance rating based on SAT scores, while a growing number of colleges and universities recognize that the SAT fails to properly predict college success and move to drop the testing requirement.

Due to a number of top universities situated there, majority of the students choose this place for their higher education.

The University of Mary Washington is located in the city, which has a number of places that are part of the National Register of Historic Pplaces that are part of the National Register of Historic PlacesPlaces.

A number of organizations are in place to enable those associated with Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and others, to assist.

With a significant fall in the number of applications to universities for nursing places down 23 per cent since the introduction of student loans and Brexit threatening the supply of workers from overseas, this is an issue that needs to be urgently addressed.