Sentences with phrase «of education attainment»

Finally, the tax credit to child care professionals is available to child care directors and staff based on increased levels of education attainment to help address the issue of retaining quality staff.

But looking toward the future, Utahns who want to enjoy a single - income household lifestyle may have only one practical course of action: increase their level of education attainment.

For both measures of education attainment, then, the influences of living in a bilingual household and of receiving bilingual instruction were roughly similar in strength, but opposed in sign — bilingual households being a positive influence, bilingual instruction being a negative one.

Parental level of education attainment is the best predictor.

Not exact matches

Ann Arbor came in first place for three of these categories, landing it the number 1 spot in «education level» and number 4 in «quality of education & attainment gap.»

The report also says that would lift labor participation, and more government spending on early childhood and college education «would raise the educational attainment of workers.»

While it is well known that a positive relationship exists between educational attainment and earnings for those who are in the labor market, an important part of how education impacts the well - being of families in Kentucky is the access to employment that it provides.

Finally, our analysis reveals that 44 % of the height premium in earnings is explained by differences in educational attainment whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education.

In a statement about the case, a spokesman for the Department for Education, said: «Schools are not allowed to remove pupils from sixth form because of academic attainment once they are enrolled.»

However, it is worth noting what the website says about it: «The review is taking place against the background (sic) On The Way to Life, of the re-examining the (sic) Religious Education Curriculum Directory and of embedding the second edition of the Levels of Attainment.»

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

Education must insure that the drive for richness of attainment in the responsive phase never dies out, and that the order and structure of the inheritance in the conformal phase is solid enough to reward and renew the zest for ever expanding adventures.

The report notes that education must prepare the 1.5 million young people who graduate each year from some level of schooling to join their elders in continuous striving for new attainments.

With the glue gone that once held them together, Farley argues, the traditional disciplines — Bible, church history, systematic and practical theology — of the classic, fourfold curriculum will continue to function in a dispersed state until a new paradigm is located which can organize the pursuit and attainment of theological education.

The finding that fathers» education levels are actually more predictive than their income of their children's education success has led to suggestions in the US that developing low income fathers» educational attainment should be a serious goal — perhaps in preference to their employment (Yeung, 2004).

«We will however make available information on best practice and «what works» for improving the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and I am clear that a valuable use of the premium would be schools investing in ways to encourage parents, including of course fathers, to engage in the education of their children.»

Those with a low level of educational attainment are almost five times as likely to be in poverty now as those with a high level of education.

What they found was that fathers» level of education has the biggest impact on the likelihood of low educational attainment — itself (see below) a key factor behind poverty.

Growing up in a household with three or more children also increases the likelihood of a low level of education by 1.4 times compared with being an only child; if there are four or more children this rises to a 2.5 times greater likelihood of low educational attainment.

Holding all else equal, those with low attainment are 11 times as likely to be severely deprived as those with a high level of education.

SHARE aims to involve parents actively in their children's learning; increase parents» understanding of the important role they play and of the learning process; improve the educational attainments of children; enable parents to further their own education; and develop effective management and organisation of parental involvement in schools.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

Adamu who was represented by a Director in the Ministry, Mrs. Ajaegbu Cordelia, maintained that the present administration sees Education as key to the achievement of the SDGs hence the commitment of the Federal Ministry of Education to provide leadership in its attainment through promotion of equitable access to primary and secondary education for boys and girls as well as promotion of equitable access to Technical and Vocational EEducation as key to the achievement of the SDGs hence the commitment of the Federal Ministry of Education to provide leadership in its attainment through promotion of equitable access to primary and secondary education for boys and girls as well as promotion of equitable access to Technical and Vocational EEducation to provide leadership in its attainment through promotion of equitable access to primary and secondary education for boys and girls as well as promotion of equitable access to Technical and Vocational Eeducation for boys and girls as well as promotion of equitable access to Technical and Vocational EducationEducation.

A letter signed by the Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Terkper (addressed to the Controller and Accountant - General and copied to all the relevant parties), stated, «Following the attainment of tertiary status by the 37 colleges of education, approval is hereby given for staff of the colleges of education on the Ghana Education Service payroll to be migrated onto the NCTE payroleducation, approval is hereby given for staff of the colleges of education on the Ghana Education Service payroll to be migrated onto the NCTE payroleducation on the Ghana Education Service payroll to be migrated onto the NCTE payrolEducation Service payroll to be migrated onto the NCTE payroll.»

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

Some studies of children who attended preschool 20 or more years ago find that early childhood education programs also have lasting effects on children's later life chances, improving educational attainment and earnings and, in some cases, reducing criminal activity.

Aled Roberts brings real expertise to his education portfolio from his time as the Leader of Wrexham Council overseeing dramatic improvements in GCSE attainment levels and, having spear - headed this year's successful National Eisteddfod.

For CIHT members, one of my key aims will be to extend services and champion education and training provision and attainment.

«The expansion of the academies and Free Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education system.

Using the education of Welsh pupils, striving for attainment in some of the most challenged and deprived communities of Britain, as a means to score points off the Labour Party, is a cheap trick which will be seen for what it is by the Welsh people.

Clegg said: «We have, even after 12 years of Labour, one of the most socially segregated systems of education in the world, where the circumstances of your birth determine everything from your educational attainment to the length of your life.

This is central to our mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system which is a source of national pride and confidence.

This decision affects the educational attainment and health of pupils,» shadow education secretary Angela Rayner was due to say today.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

As example; look at educational attainment of education - valuing immigrant communities - while former Soviets or Asians aren't poor (as far as immigrants go), they aren't exactly old WASP money rich.

Education secretary met by booing and shouts of «rubbish» after she claimed that selective schools help close attainment gap.

Leaving aside the question of whether this is simply due to easier exams, it's clear that this increased «attainment» is not resulting in greater employability — so the reported 65 % increase in education funding since Labour came to power can not be judged a good investment, by any stretch of the imagination.

The team determined that delay discounting negatively correlated with three cognitive measures: college attainment, years of education and childhood IQ.

An April 2013 report released by the U.K. Higher Education Academy reported lower rates of progression to Ph.D. studies for undergraduates coming from a state high school, or from a family with parents of low educational or professional attainment.

Given the general cognitive benefits of speaking a second language, a decline in language teaching will likely mean a decline in education attainment across the board.

«The relationship between one's educational attainment, marriage formation, and risk of divorce appears to suggest that couples are adapting to the demographic reality that women have more education than men.»

The commission, which is in the process of formulation, has already done good work to prepare its action plan for attainment of international standards in the quality of education, research, and development.

Participating in an intensive early childhood education program from preschool to third grade is linked to higher educational attainment in mid-life, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

Because learning and memory impairments are common after TBI, the goal of this trial is to obtain evidence that RPT is an effective tool that leads to improved academic performance and the attainment of higher education and employment.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

In recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.

The covariates included race / ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, or other), educational attainment (< 12, 12, or > 12 years of education), smoking status (never, former, or current), alcohol consumption (0, < 3, or ≥ 3 drinks / wk), physical activity (0, < 5, or ≥ 5 times / wk of moderate - intensity to vigorous activities), BMI (< 25, 25 to < 30, or ≥ 30), family history of CVD (yes / no), and antihypertensive medication use (yes / no).

They said: «sorting along educational attainment might not reflect a preference for a partner of a certain education level, but rather the fact that many people spend much of their time in the company of others with a similar level of education in school, college, or at work.»