Sentences with phrase «numbers of students coming»

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.

We are seeing increasing number of students coming from other West African countries to come and study here in Ghana because our education system is much better and is performing well than the system in their country,» he said.

From 2001 to 2002, Great Britain saw dramatic jumps in the number of students coming from China (up 71 percent) and India (55 percent), according to England's Higher Education Statistics Agency (Cheltenham, UK).

In a meeting with the mayor, school leaders said a significant number of students came from struggling Indianapolis Public Schools and needed more time to reach grade level expectations.

Twenty - eight percent of teachers indicate their schools have reduced or eliminated health or social service programs, 64 percent report an increase in the number of students and families requiring health and social support services, and 35 percent say the number of students coming to school hungry has grown.

«A large number of students coming to school from poverty live in a chronic state of stress, with symptoms mimicking those of ADHD,» said Eric Jensen, an author and researcher who has consulted with secondary systems nationwide on strategies to educate students from impoverished communities.

Powerful pre-assessment has the potential to address a worrisome phenomenon reported in a growing body of literature (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999; Gardner, 1991): A sizeable number of students come into school with misconceptions about subject matter (thinking that a heavier object will drop faster than a lighter one, for example) and about themselves as learners (assuming that they can't and never will be able to draw, for example).

When I was at the recent Investment Research Challenge, a number of the students came up to me and said, «Oh you're * that * David Merkel.

Not exact matches

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.

Debt comes in a number of different forms, be it a mortgage, car payment, student loan, or one of those mattresses that you don't have to pay for until 2016.

The job action has reduced tourism and the number of foreign students coming to Canada to study in the fall because of backlogs in processing visa applications.

When it comes to mortgages, auto loans, and student loans it's expected that most consumers will shop for rates at a large number of lenders so all searches of these types that occur within 14 to 45 days of one another are considered a single request.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

There are indications that an increasing number of seminary students are coming from larger private and state institutions of higher learning and also that the ministry is attracting a growing number of high caliber students.

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

After 785 student - athletes raced 1000s of miles supported by 1000s of coaches, parents, and supporters in the historic Dirt Club venue SoCal came out ahead in the number of individual state championships won (7 - 4) but NorCal showed its strength in depth by winning all three divisions of team competition.

«Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.»

In order to put a student on the program the parent fills out an application providing the number of peoople who live in the household and how much income comes in.

School decision makers 1) plug in simple information, 2) explore different ways to expand school meals programs like moving breakfast to the classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come out with hard data about costs, number of students served and federal reimbursement dollars.

It's hard to learn on an empty stomach, and an alarming number of Chicago Public Schools students come to school hungry.

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.

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.

A significant clampdown on the number of international students coming to Britain could force tuition fees up further, the Institute for Public Policy Research has argued.

That already appeared a very difficult target to meet without this additional factor, though migration numbers have come down a little, including a fall in student migration, the largest category accounting for a third of immigrants to Britain (though not one that evokes much public concern).

Cameron jumps on it to celebrate the fall in net numbers (although most of it came from students).

While acknowledging that sexual assault was still a problem in the city, Brewer said the numbers indicated that more women were at least coming forward to report crimes, after McCray noted that 90 percent of female college students who experience sexual assault do not report it at all.

There has been considerable improvement in statutory education of Muslim pupils and the number of students in higher education has gone up, but when it comes to employment, housing and health, they are still at the bottom of the pile.

The directive which came on the order of the state owned university's Vice Chancellor, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun is expected to accrue a sum of 350 million naira from the students numbering about 14,000.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

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.

Most students begin the search for a graduate advisor by visiting the departmental websites at a number of candidate universities, and scanning the list of faculty members and research areas, until they come up with a reasonable match with their own interests.

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.

Veterans of these conflicts have been coming back to American universities in substantial numbers, many as students in science and engineering departments.

From the start, I was responsible for a laboratory that ran a number of different analytical systems, had to train students in environmental measurement, and came to lead and work in a number of national and international projects.

We must also increase the number of students of color coming out of high schools with an interest in science careers.

The number of foreigners coming to work here has almost tripled since 2001, and the number of international students has doubled.

Enterprising Stanford students crunched the numbers on how much energy it takes to play all that pop and came up with a figure of 1.18 gigawatt - hours.

Those three professors, Gerry Dozier, Juan Gilbert, and Cheryl Seals, talked about their educational backgrounds, how they came to Auburn, and how they have increased the number of minority and women graduate students in their department.

If the government doesn't come up with the additional funding required to cover rising annual costs and maintain the current level of quality for every student, universities will be forced to put more pressure on the government to remove current restrictions on tuition and, in a worst - case scenario, restrict the numbers of new undergraduate enrollments.

«When students come into the university, the numbers of white and black students with an interest in the sciences are about the same.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

In other words, roughly 10 % of the total number of doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. minority students nationally in mathematics in 2002 - 2003 has come from this program.

Dr Susannah McLean, who conducted the research whilst a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, said: «Our findings suggest there will be a substantial number of frail, elderly people living with COPD in the coming years.

When new students come to yoga class, they have a number of questions.

Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Taissa Farmiga, and Jamie Brewer all play young students at the school, and Coven will involve a number of different time periods, including the 1970s when the Academy's enrollment was booming and the 1830s, which is where Bates» LaLaurie and Bassett's Marie Laveau come into play.

Our numbers have grown, and a new group of students will take on the challenge of finishing up the house come September.

Rather than come down heavy on mobile phone usage and viewing it as a problem, below are a number of pointers on what teachers can do to enable students to acknowledge the dangers and identify and set boundaries.

Robots must conform to a strict set of rules which govern factors such as the size and number of motors that are allowed to be used which means students need to come up with some ingenious engineering solutions.

«I think if teachers talk about the structure of words, where words come from, how they're linked to one another, what the complex layers of words are, they do a number of things — they do get students excited about it, but they also help to bust myths about the English language.»

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)