Sentences with phrase «of a college education today»

With the high cost of a college education today, financial aid can be a necessity for many people, as it can allow you to go to a university that you may not have otherwise been able to afford.

Compared to the cost of a college education today, the professional career and personality assessments contained in our «First Step» program are a smart investment.

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IBT Education Limited today announced the acquisition of the Australian College of Applied Psychology Pty Ltd for $ 13.1 million, subject to working capital and other adjustments.

The findings are part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Special Report: A Global Perspective on Entrepreneurship Education and Training, released today at Babson College, the project's lead sponsor and co-founder.

Nearly 50 % of college students in the U.S. today fail to complete their degree, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Whether you go to college or not, The Education of Millionaires will help you learn what it takes to succeed in today's entrepreneurial economy.

Of the various education savings vehicles available today, perhaps the best - known is a 529 College Savings Plan (529 Plan).

Today he is chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen — no mean feat for a boy raised in a town where the only residents with a college education were pastors and schoolteachers.

When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus observers had been witnessing for years.

More significant, though, has been the continuing impact of Benedict XVI, who at the beatification Mass in September 2010 paid «particular tribute to [Newman's] vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

$ 26 When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus....

Professional education for college teachers should also include considerably more attention to the art of teaching than do most of today's graduate programs.

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Plans for a new further education college to train the next generation of world - class engineers to work on the construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) have been unveiled today (14 January 2014).

«Today, what Gov. Cuomo is proposing is a revolutionary idea for higher education, and it's going to reverberate not only throughout the state of New York, but throughout this country,» Sanders told a crowd of students and elected officials at LaGuardia Community College.

«As at today, the tuition fees of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and the College of Technology, Esa - Oke remain N25, 000 while that of Osun state College of Education, Ilesa and Ila - Orangun isstill N20, 000».

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high college or a career after high school.

Commenting on the Department for Education's consultation on a College of Teaching, which closes today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has never objected in principle to the creation of a dedicated professional body for teaching.

Commenting on today's speech at Brighton College by the Secretary of State for Education, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

In response to Governor Cuomo's announcement today of his plan to offer free tuition at SUNY and CUNY 2 - and 4 - year colleges to eligible New Yorkers, The Education Trust — New York issued the following statement from Executive Director Ian Rosenblum:

Today's announcement also saw an extension of free school meals to disadvantaged students in further education and sixth form colleges, rather than just school sixth forms.

Lawmakers begin their annual review of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal in Albany today with a look at the higher education plan and, most likely, a focus on the proposal to phase out tuition costs for state and city public colleges.

today announced a training program being offered by the Oneida County Health Department, in partnership with Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and Environmental Education Associates, designed to provide a better understanding of the relationship between the area's housing deficiencies and the overall health of the occupants.

He described the Army War college as a regional center of excellence that would give Professional Military Education to middle cadre off officers as well as provide an opportunity for them to strategize on approaches to confront most of the security challenges in Nigeria today.

Fueling businesses with talent from the region's acclaimed colleges and universities, and green, clean energy from Niagara Falls, Buffalo Niagara is enjoying success today and positioned for long - term growth tomorrow in advanced manufacturing, life sciences and biotechnologies, finance, education, and advanced agriculture — all within one of the most affordable and enjoyable regions of the country — come grow your business with us.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

Capital Region community, business, education and government leaders today announced University at Albany's plan to transform the century - old former Albany High School building into a home for its new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Jonathan Osborne, a professor at Stanford University in California and a former head of the education department at King's College London, gives the report high marks for arguing that most students need more math and science to function in today's world.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Only 15 % of today's trainees will ever get that coveted tenure - track position in a research university, noted Phil Clifford, associate dean for postdoctoral education at the Medical College of Wisconsin in an address to NPA.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks CCNY # 2 among public colleges with the greatest success in ensuring the social mobility of our student body; at the same time the Center for world University Rankings places it in the top 1.2 % of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

While a college degree was once almost a guarantee of a job, many of the top companies today are hiring based on skill, not formal education level.

Today, SeekingArrangement.com is being featured on ABC's 20/20 about «Creative Ways Some College Girls are Paying off the Cost of Higher Education».

Rather than asking how reforms can encourage an array of options (public, private, or for - profit) to emerge that fit the needs of today's students, the free - public - college crowd wants to simply cram more people through the same old expensive, mediocre model of education.

The move has led to the creation of a college that today caters for more than 20,000 pupils studying for a wide range of vocational courses that lead to BTEC, NVQ, City & Guilds and other specialist qualifications, as well as higher education courses validated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, announced today that «The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City» meets WWC standards without reservations.

As of today, Turning the Tide has been endorsed by a growing list of 85 stakeholders across college admissions and education.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

Not surprisingly, today's students use social media as their main form of communication and connection, yet a University of Phoenix ® College of Education survey conducted online by Harris Poll in April among 1,002 U.S. K - 12 teachers found that only «13 percent of today's K - 12 teachers have integrated social media into classroom learning, with an overwhelming majority (87 percent) reporting they have not embraced social platforms.»

By 1997, as it became evident that this goal wasn't going to be met, President Clinton returned in his State of the Union speech to the old model of substituting quantity for quality: «We must make the 13th and 14th years of education - at least two years of college - just as universal in America by the 21st century as a high - school education is today.»

It believes that educators know best, that elected school boards are the embodiment of democracy in action, that colleges of education are the path to true professionalism, that collective bargaining is necessary to protect teacher rights, and that any failings visible in today's schools, teachers, and students are either the fault of heedless parents or the consequence of incompetent administrators and stingy taxpayers.

The full study, «A Randomized Controlled Trial of Professional Development for Interdisciplinary Civic Education,» will be available and free to all on the Teacher's College Record website for one week only beginning today, April 15.

Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan announced today the Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) program, an innovative new pathway for Harvard College undergraduates to enter a teaching career.

Reflecting bipartisan consternation over the rising price of a college education and other postsecondary issues, the House education committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fueducation and other postsecondary issues, the House education committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fueducation committee voted unanimously today to send its version of a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act to the fuEducation Act to the full House.

Mediocre PISA and TIMSS results plus persistent domestic achievement gaps have caught the eyes of policymakers and education leaders on both sides of the pond, as it's become clear that yesterday's so - so expectations just aren't good enough and that today's testing - and - accountability regimes do not produce nearly enough world - class, college - ready graduates.

While technology proliferates in schools today, some is more useful than others and needs to be straightforward to use and offer clear benefits that solve a real problem, as well as being adaptable to an individual school or college and to the changing needs of the education sector.

More low - income students would make it to college if changes were made to streamline the complicated financial aid process, according to a groundbreaking study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stanford University School of Education, the University of Toronto, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dean James Ryan announced today that Paul Finnegan and Joseph O'Donnell — both alumni of Harvard College and Harvard Business School — will serve as honorary co-chairs of the Campaign for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, launching in fall 2014.