Sentences with phrase «numbers of students»

There is an annual decrease in the numbers of students studying science or technical subjects.

Feeling drained from «teaching huge numbers of students,» she left the university in 1999 to work at consulting company Cantox in Mississauga, Canada, where she learned about regulatory affairs as she helped food - processing companies win approval for new ingredients from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's report comes on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state are expected to once again boycott the required third through eighth grade math tests.

The boundary changes are somewhat unhelpful for the Liberal Democrats, slightly reducing the still substantial numbers of students in the constituency, but it remains a tough call for the Conservatives.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

As for total numbers of students in each class, Walcott said, «It depends on the grade so the grade varies.

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.

This unfortunate development is widely believed to have been caused by congestion in our Senior High Schools due to the large numbers of students admitted after government rolled out the Free SHS scheme.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

The IET has already highlighted this to Ofqual following their proposals to streamline the number of GCSE courses in manufacturing, electronics and engineering as a result of low numbers of students studying the subjects.

At the same time, several new free schools have very small numbers of students (one reportedly had only eight), often at considerable cost per place.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

If large numbers of students can't go to school because of a holiday, they should not have to be marked absent.

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.The gap is...

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

c) The «speakers» sound ridiculous because their message is empty: there is no credible strategy on offer as to how to fund the massively (and unnecessarily) increased numbers of students entering a dumbed - down higher education system.

Incompetence is when NPP increased the duration of SHS without corresponding increase in classrooms to cater for extra numbers of students coming on board and also provide for other key facilities that should have preceded the change, if quality was not to be jeopardized.

In millions and millions of schools all across the world, there are untold numbers of students studying history, learning about the events of our past.

Although still required to provide a free lunch to their low income students, public school districts like the one in the article (which in 2009 - 10 had only 1.1 % low income children) can easily afford to feed such tiny numbers of students for free even without the government reimbursement.

Schools with closed campus generally see higher numbers of students eating in the cafeteria (as opposed to bringing lunch from home.)

In many communities, growing numbers of students rely on schools for two meals a day.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

Colleges have seen small growth in the numbers of students under the age of 25 who are enrolling yet are seeing growth of 23 % in individuals over the age of 25 who are enrolling.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

Exclusive new research conducted by the NUS on behalf of Premier Foods has revealed that, despite record numbers of students attending university, dining on campus is not currently the top option when looking for meals.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

Time is a precious commodity on most campuses, yet large numbers of students volunteer their time to support worthy causes.

There are few «feeder» colleges supplying substantial numbers of students to seminaries.

Involvement in campus ministries was often the next step, typically at a denominational or private liberal arts college that sent substantial numbers of students on to seminary.

When you look at that competition, it would be clear that the top ten schools have been able to enroll larger numbers of students.

A new pilot program is off to a strong start with overwhelming numbers of students interested in participating.

The findings are skewed by the high numbers of students who enroll in for - profit schools and end up dropping out before they finish their programs.

Certain countries, for example, in the past have set quotas on the numbers of students who pursue higher education in certain disciplines based on workforce demands.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

Worries about debt cause untold numbers of students to pursue safer, but limited career paths, or even skip higher education entirely.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

An alarming number of students are Facebook friends with people whom they don't actually know.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

The company plans to focus on translating and adding subtitles to as much of its content as possible in other languages, which Levin says significantly increases the number of students taking a course, and adding courses developed locally.

Some universities are hailing possible new flexibilities, but Dr Yovich says one issue for Murdoch concerns previous block grants now becoming allocations for specific programs, some calculated on the number of students in each.

The tool can be customized for a large number of students or only a few.

In 2011, he announced an $ 11.5 million investment to support the creation of a new university center, to help renovate Millikin's oldest residence hall and to double the number of students who participate in a scholars program.

The student - oriented mission of The Ted Rogers Leadership Centre (TRLC) is to help a substantial number of students develop the core competencies that ethical leaders need to excel in the businesses of today and tomorrow.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

The Haskayne School of Business has a quota on the number of students accepted into their Co-operative Education program.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the number of students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February.