Sentences with phrase «numbers of young people studying»

The report analyses recent declines in numbers of young people studying computing at schools and the reasons for the declines.

«Whilst we need a strategy to reduce the consumption of sugar - filled drinks by young people, simply removing access to soft drinks within schools is clearly not enough, as a number of the young people we studied were able to leave the school premises during their lunch period to visit nearby shops.

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A new study found that young people are reporting loneliness in increasing numbers and at a rate outpacing that of their elderly counterparts, USA Today reports.

A 2012 study from the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College in the United States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Patricia Schreck, manager of the Episcopal Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, is one of many who report «an increasing number of young people and those in the 25 - 35 year range getting into intense Bible study.

TEEN SUICIDE: The state will create a task force to study adolescent suicide and recommend policy changes to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

Previous studies on distracted driving have mainly focused on teenagers and young people, and programs targeting this group have decreased their number of crashes.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

Overall, the study found, older and younger brains had similar numbers of «intermediate» progenitor cells and «immature» neurons — signaling that older people had a similar capacity for generating new cells as young people.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

The number of young people receiving remedial - education services under the Summer Youth Employment and Training program last year was more than double the level of 1986, according to a study by the General Accounting Office.

Record numbers of pupils are studying A-level politics, a trend put down to a surge in political engagement among young people.

For Dropouts, a Way to Drop Back In An increasing number of young people neither attend school nor work, a study finds.

A growing number of nations are doing a better job than the United States in getting young people through high school and college, a study found.

«A number of the older generation we met spoke little Chinese and could remember living in the forests, but the younger generation are modern people who go to university in big cities, study to be engineers or follow their parents into local government, and - despite being aware and often proud of their ethnic heritage - are largely integrated into mainstream Chinese society.

Other studies have shown that the number of psychiatric disorders a person has is related to life outcomes in young adulthood, 5 and that co-occurring mental disorders, to a small extent, influenced the consequences of anxiety and depression.3, 4, 23 More general personal traits such as childhood temperament and intellectual abilities are other individual factors that may be of importance, 26, 29 but the effects of intellectual function and psychiatric disease seem independent of each other.25 Our results indicated an influence of family factors, as indicated by the attenuation of OR in model 3.

It is a programme that has been proven in a number of research studies to work for families and young people.

A large number of studies have stressed the relationship between physical aggression and emotional disorders in young people, compared to other forms of antisocial behaviors [24].

Not only are the numbers of young people over 18 who live with their parents reaching unprecedented numbers, higher than previously assumed, they are not necessarily moving out when their financial situations improve, a according to a new study by Federal Reserve economists that may have important ramifications for housing marks.