Sentences with phrase «of education points»

Instead, as Peter Cunningham, a former official in the U.S. Department of Education points out, «the new law that the senator from Tennessee is so proud of, the Every Student Succeeds Act, now mandates the very thing he rails against.

Mr Addo Dankwa Akuffo, the Western Regional Director of Education pointed out that investing more in STEM education was to help develop the cognitive abilities of children, make them critical thinkers and enable them to contribute more meaningfully to their respective economies.

Not exact matches

The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

While there are many points to support the idea that if you are taking on the entrepreneurial journey, you may not necessarily need to receive a formal education, there are still plenty of benefits to attending and finishing college.

So, in addition to a summary of the position, detailed bullet points describing the job's main tasks and the minimum education and experience requirements, great listings incorporate behavioral characteristics.

«I think higher education will be in trouble,» Elmore told Business Insider, pointing to the rise of online learning and mounting college debt.

It's a point of view that's gaining traction: The fictional Gregory is said to be based on billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a vocal critic of higher education.

Interestingly, Wadhwa twice mentions the importance of ethics in business, and rightly points to ethics as being of central importance in an MBA education.

«The first point of interaction is shaped by the color, and color is the most memorable sense,» says Leslie Harrington, a color consultant and the executive director of The Color Association, which does color forecasting, education, and advising for brands.

The financial crisis revealed the fallacy of the single - point objective function of traditional business education.

Healthcare and education are just two examples — but they illustrate a point: if the current system prevents a growing number of people from being able to care for themselves when they are sick, or get the training they need to get a job that supports themselves and their families, they will break the system.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

«These organizations can provide advice to clients at a very low price point, and they can serve a portion of the population that's been really under served, people who haven't had access to investment advice,» said Robert Stammers, director of investor education at the CFA Institute.

I'm not here to condemn education, but I'd like to give you my point of view to clarify where I stand on this issue.

Overall score: 1,568 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Technology & Innovation (No. 6), Workforce (No. 7) Worst categories: Quality of Life (No. 28), Education (No. 32) 2016 rank: No. 5

Overall score: 1,602 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Workforce (No. 1), Infrastructure (No. 1) Worst categories: Quality of Life (No. 37), Education (No. 34) 2016 rank: No. 2

It looked like a crushing blow to the industry, with skeptics pointing the finger at Udacity as just one example of why MOOCs offer students a subpar education.

Overall score: 1,615 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Education (No. 2), Quality of Life (No. 3) Worst categories: Cost of Doing Business (No. 36), Business Friendliness (No. 33) 2016 rank: No. 4

Overall score: 1,616 out of 2,500 points Best categories: Economy (No. 1), Workforce (No. 3) Worst categories: Education (No. 33), Quality of Life (No. 28) 2016 rank: No. 8

«There's lots of positive momentum,» he says, pointing as well to the recent $ 80 - million venture capital investment by OMERS Ventures and the American venture fund New Enterprise Associates in Desire2Learn, a global provider of online education platforms, based in Kitchener, Ont.

«You shouldn't view your education as a done deal,» advises a fun sketchbook of the book's main points.

Isn't «someone else's point of view» the essence of affirmative action in education?

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

Here is where Nelson, of St. John's, has a point (though he didn't actually make it): Economics is tough to apply to education because it uses an economic model not found anywhere else in the wild.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

But only 8.8 per cent of prospective homebuyers pointed to education as a factor when considering Calgary, compared to 20.6 per cent who cited investment.

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

An article in yesterday's Village Voice looks at the rising costs of post-secondary education (PSE)  in the United States. It points to research suggesting that the «biggest single factor» contributing to the rising cost of PSE for both private and public institutions is the cost of employee health benefits.

Saunders and BC Fed president Jim Sinclair both pointed to the need for more worker education as one component of organizing drives in hard times.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

«After this strong rebuke from the Supreme Court of Canada, there is no question that Christy Clark deliberately attacked and undermined public education in British Columbia — even to the point of breaking the law.

To determine the rate for undergraduate loans the Department of Education tacks 2.05 percentage points onto the rate for 10 - year Treasury notes auctioned in May.

These events all point to a persisting lack of education about Bitcoin users, who still have few truly non-technical options to choose from prior to purchasing, storing and trading their assets.

Buyer personas are fictional representations of your actual, paying customers, created based on the data you have about them — such as their job title, budget, buying motivation, challenges, company size, age, pain points, education level, buying concerns, etc..

Donald Trump's proposed system of merit - based immigration — instead of family - based unification programs — assigns points to candidates based on factors like age, education and English skills.

«What I'm advocating for is a complete realignment of your B2B demand generation processes around the buyer — literally making every point of communication and contact focused on and driven by the needs and behaviors of the buyer in his / her buyer - education process.»

It takes a lot of education and effort to make people understand how Bitcoin and Blockchain works so we are really glad to have been able to reach this point in only a couple of years.

The need for deeper advisor awareness and understanding of the broader role Social Security claiming strategies can play in creating a secure retirement was becoming abundantly clear and it was at that point I realized a firm dedicated solely to the education of financial professionals made sense.»

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

And Robert Locke recently wrote a book on business school education pointing out that the whole focus of business school education now was to have industrial companies run by financial managers — not salesmen, not production end, not lawyers, but financial managers.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

Appetize is a fast growing and disruptive technology platform that is replacing legacy point of sale and payment systems at entertainment, leisure and education enterprise businesses around the world.

As they point out, increases in general education and economic development are strongly correlated to family planning, not the availability of contraceptive technology.

To easy Timmy, the 700 Club crew part of our side will just point to the decline of God in the classroom and say that the decline in our education system paralleled such.

As people increase their level of education they reach a point where they can not reconcile belief with reality and leave belief behind.

Plenty of hucksters and marketers of «belief» claim education and knowledge, but commit intellectual fraud and dishonesty to make their points.

Theodoret makes a similar point in his story of Maesymas, a Syriac - speaking peasant with no education.

Of course, if Israel were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually be making a point about there being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefitOf course, if Israel were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually be making a point about there being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefitof billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefitof other countries which provide the same benefits.

I understand your point — you mean college instead of «secondary education» (high school) but its worth correcting.