Sentences with phrase «of more schooling»

Residents appealed to the government for the construction of more schools, health centres and roads, which the governor promised to look into.

In the letter, Senator Klein suggests the installation of more School Zone signs and crosswalks on East Tremont Avenue.

One aspect of their research in particular caught our eye: the association of more school time with improved learning outcomes.

Not exact matches

On this podcast episode of «School of Greatness,» Gary Vaynerchuk returns for his third time to share his take on business, success and more.

Ours is showing you good people for you to meet regardless of whether they're down the block or across the city, and because of the accountability and transparency that's in Hinge — we show first name, last name, where you work, where you went to school, all these different aspects — it's much more geared towards quality interactions.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

People use online dating because they feel like they're not meeting enough of the right kind of people in their daily life, and if they were, then they wouldn't use an online dating site, that's why you don't use it when you're in college or a lot of people don't use it when they're in grad school because you meet so many great people all the time, I wouldn't join an online dating site, but it's when you don't have those opportunities to have those interactions that people feel the need and I think things like Hinge, and even Tinder to some extent, allow you to meet just a lot of people so that you don't have to go through that process, which is a lot more effort, to do an online dating site.

Plus, now that they're actually out of school, the founders can focus more time and energy on the start - up.

Of course, while you could engineer people to be more persuasive, «there's no way to shoot out a virus and make people do what you want,» NYU School of Medicine Director of Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business InsideOf course, while you could engineer people to be more persuasive, «there's no way to shoot out a virus and make people do what you want,» NYU School of Medicine Director of Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business Insideof Medicine Director of Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business Insideof Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business Insider.

«It's what's behind that fortified entryway in terms of the school climate, the culture, the training, the people side of school safety that makes school safety different and more important and meaningful.»

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.

Accepting just 3.7 percent of the nearly 3,000 applicants, the program boasts an acceptance rate that was more selective than Ivy League schools.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

More Americans in positions of power began gravitating toward the Chicago school's ideas in the»70s, and Friedman became an adviser to President Ronald Reagan.

An MBA or Master's in Marketing helps professionals gain a more in - depth understanding of marketing analytics and add value to their marketing careers, but the degree comes at a cost: top business schools such as those at Columbia, USC, and Vanderbilt charge annual tuition fees of $ 50,000 to $ 60,000.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

The programs with the highest proportion of women, the highest number of foreign students, the top schools by instructor - student ratio and more.

Arguing that half of dropouts leave the educational system because their classes don't seem relevant to their lives, NuSkool bases its instructional materials on topics more likely to interest high school students.

To date, more than half of NaturAll Club's capital — a total of $ 120,000 — has come from pitch competitions sponsored by, among others, Harvard Business School Club, the entertainer Steve Harvey, UBS, and Under Armour.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.coOf the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.coof student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.coof 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

The Global Energy Executive MBA program at the Haskayne School of Business has 25 % more students this year.

And small businesses could feel the pain more acutely if interest rates go up too rapidly, says Thomas Cooley, professor of economics and former dean of the New York University Stern School of Business.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

A recent study from Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy found that firms with poor governance generally prefer to hold more cash.

And since you have been asking for more solo rounds, I want to share those ideas with you on today's episode of The School of Greatness.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

The Obama administration advised schools to respond more quickly to accusations and to lower the amount of proof needed to reach a decision.

• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

Indeed, strategy and organization expert Robert David, the Cleghorn faculty scholar at McGill's business school, wonders why Canada Post hasn't been making more hay out of that point of differentiation, especially given that the corporation enjoys plenty of brand equity.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

«People who wear that kind of clothing feel more powerful,» Michael L. Slepian, co-author of the study and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School, told the WSJ.

I was also glad to see Travis Kalanik, the CEO of «Private Driver (read: not a taxi) service» Uber, stand on stage yesterday at Startup School and announce Uber TAXI, a cheaper, more taxi - like service.

It will dramatically improve the culture of the school and make Stanford — already the most selective B - school in the U.S. — an even more desirable place to earn an MBA.

Studies suggest that even one more year of school means a 10 percent to 20 percent boost in income.

Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

And the school's emphasis on encouraging students to research and develop their own ideas may create a generation of more innovative entrepreneurs, Cullinane says.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

You'll learn the origin of McDonald's Filet - O - Fish, Harvard Business School's curriculum circa 1910, and that even back in the 1970s, CEOs rarely had more than nine minutes of time to themselves.

Bridge International Academies, the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine piece, operates in hundreds of schools around Kenya and Uganda, with dozens more of its low - cost schools scattered through Nigeria, India, and most recently Liberia.

The result: many of these schools will become more selective than ever.