Sentences with phrase «of challenging education»

We helped the nation's top philanthropies establish a joint venture for investing in more effective communications around the importance of challenging education standards.

How many of these myths have hindered you, your child, and / or your school in the pursuit of a challenging education for advanced students?

Taylor went on to discuss the merger of the National College and the Teaching Agency, setting out some of the challenges the education profession is facing and how the new agency will support schools and leaders.

Not exact matches

A new study finds younger Canadians facing an array of job challenges, such as spiralling education requirements — and the tuition debt that comes with it

The college - education track rarely challenges students to seek real - world experience (and often creates a mountain of debt).

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

A growing number of companies are trying to solve problems facing the education industry — and they're coming up against a unique set of challenges.

«Over the past six months, we've traveled the globe to find the world's most promising startups working to develop innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in education, energy & sustainability, health, and cities & transportation,» says Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776.

While raising money for the Jamie Oliver Foundation, which addresses nutritional education among children in a number of ways, he believes what he did will empower others to acknowledge, wrestle with and overcome whatever challenges they face, regardless of whether they're self - made or randomly imposed.

According to Lou D'Alo, Mirasee's Director of Education, the challenge is «conquering the reluctance to get started, overcoming and persisting beyond the inevitable setbacks, and resisting the urge to be harshly self - critical when they fall anywhere short of the lofty goals and expectations they set.»

Education programs challenge your leads to consider the benefits of your products or services and provide unique insights to how they can do their job better and more effectively.

Techcircle caught up with the Infosys co-founder on the sidelines of the #Future Summit, a global digital conclave organised by the Kerala government at Kochi, where he opened up about the challenges India faces as a country, the mentorship gap in the startup ecosystem, the significance of education and country - specific innovations.

Culmination of the program is a competition to create a digitally - oriented solution to a company - specific business challenge with the winner receiving a grant and additional advanced education and consultation.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

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..

I think it's really important to connect education and the challenge of jobs and I think it's important to talk about it.

«The cost of education and growing student debt are serious challenges...

I do not have enough room in this post to even begun to discuss the challenges facing Health Minister Sarah Hoffman and Education Minister David Eggen (which will be included in a series of future posts).

Peter Robinson is the chief executive officer of the David Suzuki Foundation, a non-profit science and education organization working to address some of Canada's most pressing environmental challenges.

There are many challenges associated with investing for retirement, including saving enough to fund the type of retirement they envision, developing a plan to meet long - term income needs, preparing for medical expenses and... financing education expenses?

Many of the countries and communities in which they operate face significant challenges in health, education, economic development, and basic infrastructure.

Speaking before the event the Archbishop said: «In the midst of these economic, social and political challenges, Church of England schools aim to provide an education that is deeply and authentically Christian, but also inclusive and embracing of diversity.

The title of our gathering might suggest otherwise: «theological education to meet the environmental challenge.»

There also are institutional challenges to be met if the delicate ecology of theology and religious studies is not to succumb to the commodification of education, to ideologies with no room for theology (least of all for its celebratory mode), or to absorption in a range of other disciplines.

Unveiling the review, education secretary Damian Hinds (pictured below) said on Friday that some youngsters - especially those from challenging backgrounds - face «inconsistencies» in their experience of education.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

While Reform's growth could be challenged based on their redefinition of Jewish identity (to include those Jews born of a Jewish a parent), what can not be waved aside is the very noticeable emphasis it is placing on ritual adult education and Jewish study.

The U.S. war to destroy revolutionary gains in education and health care and to reduce living standards in Nicaragua was part of a broader psychological war to discourage other third - world peoples from challenging U.S. power.

Not only must laypeople finance their own education, but their service to the church is often questioned and challenged, despite the dramatic decline in numbers of men entering the Catholic priesthood.

For someone who received all of his education at some of the leading «Inerrantist» schools in the country, I found the book incredibly challenging.

He served as the Chair of the Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Education, acted as a mentor to a group of young disciples, and hosted Take Over Challenge days with young people.

In his book on Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education, Robert Brumbaugh takes up the Whiteheadian challenge and in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2).

We clearly need to follow his lead in crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging uncritically accepted paradigms in science and education, getting others to join us in the complex task of trying to determine how things really are.

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

The pope challenged young people to «create a world of brothers and sisters» and older generations to ensure that today's youth have «the material and spiritual conditions for their full development,» including «safety and education» as well as «lasting values.»

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

Rev Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer, said: «In the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative terms.

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

The penultimate chapter of this book continues to challenge the reader to reflect upon the tensions found within the formalised education system which prevent true unity.

The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.

Perhaps the most challenging of these (sic) is the contrast (sic) between the Christian approach to education which is based on the understanding of all life as God's gift, and a general approach to education which does not openly acknowledge any religious values.»

For twenty centuries the Christian faith has struggled to come to terms with culture, and with the Christian ethic of love has both informed and challenged the various expressions of civilized culture, particularly in the areas of science, art and education.

In terms of our previous discussion of the rhythm of education, the subject matter and an interesting manner of presenting it, the challenge of new ideas hopefully touches the recesses of creativity within each student, and stimulates their interest, prompting interest in further inquiry.

«The failure to incorporate studies in the liberal arts and humanities, along with STEM education, will deprive the next generation of students the critical thinking skills and context necessary to address the challenges they will face in the future.»

Last weekend I had the pleasure of lecturing at the American Enterprise Institute's Values and Capitalism Faculty Retreat on the challenges facing Christians in higher education.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.