Sentences with phrase «of academic systems»

Yet changing the academic culture in the bottom 80 percent or more of the academic system is going to be especially difficult.

So far a combination of resources and a will to reform, at least at the top of the academic system, has served China well.

So, at long last it appears that at least some young scientists are listening not to the traditional blandishments of an academic system in need of their cheap labor, but rather to an unmistakable economic signal urging them to improve their personal situations by seeking careers outside of academe.

At times, Hope feels trapped by the pressures and politics of the academic system.

You are totally right about the current scenario of the academic system, they are teaching students that academic postdoc is the only option they have after the PhD.

However, this is exactly what the Gonski review was supposed to achieve and it is this element of the academic system that needs to discussed in detail by the major parties.

They don't see any value in being a part of the academic system — a system that often fails its young artists.

I used to think this but I've come to believe it's more of an academic system that galleries like to encourage so that they can get a handle on how to sell their artist's work to buyers.

Not exact matches

The growing desire for academic excellence and lack of resources in our school systems are the drivers behind today's boom.

Using Cisco's TelePresence technology — an immersive audio visual conferencing system — the partnership is designed to enable the dissemination of scientific knowledge and academic resources throughout the world.

When it comes to the potential of Quebec - style child care, a 2012 academic study on the provincial system estimated it had allowed 70,000 more mothers with children under the age of 14 to hold jobs in 2008 than would have otherwise been the case.

One world of work is the industrial factory model that the academic system funnels people into.

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

The emerging system bears little relation to what academic textbooks describe, to say nothing of what politicians are promising.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

Financial industry norms and academic theories — even popular beliefs — have always assumed assets saved for retirement would be systematically withdrawn — following the «4 % rule» or some other rule of thumb or system — by retirees in order to maintain a consistent standard of living.

Well, it's an academic book aimed at a popular audience that filled in a lot of holes in my crude system.

An expert in geomatics engineering, Dr. Cannon's research has been on the forefront of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) since 1984 in both industrial and academic environments, and she has commercialized technology to over 200 agencies worldwide.

A small team of interns is to work with an academic psychiatrist to create / prototype a mobile based expert system for psychiatric diagnosis.

This limitation of ethereum and other blockchain systems has long been the subject of discussion by developers and academics.

It was shortly after the housing crisis, when in October of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released an academic «White paper», titled, «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», to a small cryptographic community's web space.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

Yet despite the upheaval in the education system from the 1960s onwards some schools have managed to maintain high academic levels of excellence.

Because neither the public school system nor his family could manage him, when he was 12 Sam was placed in the first of a series of residential schools that combined academics with programs of behavior modification.

We're talking about a process called deconstruction — an academic term for the systematic pulling apart of the belief system you were raised in.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

One may still think that we can and should change the way the system works without challenging the theoretical assumptions of the academic discipline of economics.

See especially Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World - System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World - Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1974).

It maintains the same standards of academic excellence as the traditional Ph.D. while providing a delivery system designed for students currently engaged in missiological work in a North American context.

When asked whether his run was his proudest achievement, Sir Roger, who went on to become a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, said he felt prouder of his contribution to academic medicine through research in to the responses of the nervous system.

The latest in an ongoing scandal at UNC that's included dozens of revelations, McCants» comments detail the «paper - class» system often used by student - athletes at the school, his own academic issues and apparent knowledge of the situation by legendary head coach Roy Williams.

Fulbright — the father of the woman who would become your wife — congratulated Hutchins for his «courageous defense of the university and its true function» and for standing up to the «worst excrescences of our educational system» by doing away with a sport that had undermined Chicago's academic reputation and made it hostage to those with no regard for the rules.

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

To all the mommy bloggers, food celebrities, academic researchers, restaurant chains and media channels who want to blame School Lunch for the ills of the US food system (while promoting their own products, endorsements and programs), it's time to STOP.

The Felder - Silverman model of learning styles is based on Myers - Briggs terminology; the site is quite academic and detailed, but has a useful questionnaire to help determine likely styles in this system.

As a neuroscientist, and and a proponent of Waldorf Education, I seek evidence - based support for the principles of this education system, and I am particularly intrigued by evidence from brain research, the academic field I chose.

Ron Patera, who oversees food services as the school system's finance director, said in a statement, «Ms. Heaps and I are both in support of providing nutritious and safe meals to Elizabeth's students so they have every opportunity to enhance their academic performance.

He is contracted with Five Acres and conducts psychological assessment of children and adolescents to determine mental, psychological, academic, and neurocognitive functioning, and provides recommendations to the caregivers, Five Acres clinicians, and the school system to better help and treat the client.

They describe some kind of followup system, but not to a level that would pass muster at a more academic journal.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

Students and academics at Birmingham City University have come up with a guide which aims to help people observing the month of Ramadan to make sure they eat right and look after their systems.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

On Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5, the University of Oxford Centre for International Studies (CIS) hosted an international interdisciplinary conference, jointly convened by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), and the Centre for Sustainable Development & International Peace at the University of Denver.

But, that number is based only on a calculation by SUNY of students already in the system — or at least who were in the 2014 - 15 academic year — and who met the program's eligibility of family incomes under $ 125,000 and carrying 15 credits per semester.

Our prediction survey, however, was spot on thanks to the method we used for Oraclum Intelligence Systems, a start - up developed out of our academic work.

Throughout the collection, we were keen to showcase the different parts of the UN system, not just its structures and programmes, but also the various actors who make up what is often lazily referred to as «the UN»: member states, staff and the host of groups — NGOs, academics, private sector companies, foundations, regional organisations, etc. — with which it works.