Sentences with phrase «of scarce funding»

This not withstanding, the current party executives are misappropriating and fleecing the party of its scarce funds for their private benefits».

Not exact matches

You might think that the already scarce funding can be invested in something better, but the truth is, in today's world where all types of communication, data handling, customer support, selling and shopping for products and services are done via the internet, IT support is invaluable.

Particularly horribly, it's a cancer that most commonly occurs in children and because of its rarity, receives scarce attention or funding and there has been very little in the way of new treatments developed in the last 30 years.

Had funding not been so scarce, there would have been more, as there's no shortage of interested fathers.

But funding for large projects is scarce because of property - tax caps that strictly limit the amount by which an Illinois taxing body such as a park district can increase its annual revenue, he said.

«There is a severe shortage of school places, yet this Government is sanctioning the opening of free schools in areas where there is no demand for additional places and eating up scarce funding in the process.

«But it should be looking at using unclaimed pensions and financial sector assets, and at whether forcing a failed pension fund to buy annuities is the best use of scarce resources belonging to fund members.»

He added, «It is a great disappointment that scarce funds that should be used to develop key sectors of the government such as education, health, security and reviving of Nigerian economy in these trying times were systematically allocated to non-existing projects with the sole aim of converting such into personal use in the nearest future.

It advised Wike to stop wasting the Rivers State scarce funds sponsoring some idle groups in the State to protest against the sound judgement of the Tribunal annulling his obviously fraudulent election.

Anti-Trump signs were scarce, but many marchers expressed dismay about the case of Javier Duarte, the ex-governor of Veracruz who absconded with state funds and was recently arrested in Guatemala.

Competing for scarce funds with a myriad of other money - strapped domestic agencies, the civilian science agencies face the likelihood of budget cuts, some quite substantial.

Absent a policy, the principal investigator?s decision - making may rest on allocating scarce research funds either to the cost of research supplies or a postdoc?s benefits.

The addition of prostitutes and heroin addicts to the list of high - risk groups did little to increase public sympathy, so at first funding for prevention and care remained scarce.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

But the world can not now afford to treat all the already - infected people who need antiretrovirals, raising the dilemma of where scarce funds should go, to prevention or treatment.

In an era when research funding is scarce, these 11 ideas serve as a timely reminder of the value of pure science not only in terms of satisfying our curiosity, but ultimately for its endless practical uses.

Though details are still scarce, one expectation is that funding for basic research will rise to 10 % of total R&D spending by 2020, up from less than 5 % now.

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

The study, now published in PLOS ONE, could present scientists with the additional dilemma of finding alternative funding sources, especially during a time when federal funding may be scarce, that won't jeopardize the perceived integrity of their research.

But because «grad students pay fees» and postdocs don't, she suspects that, in a competition for scarce funds, «there might be a shift in the ratio» of time spent on postdocs versus grad students.

It is also a great advantage to have the fallback of returning to the wards if research funding becomes scarce.

Biomedical lobbyists say that the programs are not the best use of scarce National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds.

Now, researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging Bioengineerng have developed a system to capture and identify a scarce blood peptide (a fragment of an inflammatory protein) called P1 that can predict increased risk of preterm birth.

Students, already demoralized by scarce funding and no jobs, fret over whether basic research (of the sort that produced CRISPR in the first place) will be as esteemed as «patentable» work — and if their names will even be included on the patent.

Because funding for research on amphibians and reptiles was scarce, they spent several years researching infectious diseases of poultry and pigs, while working on turtles and salamanders after hours.

For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.

Despite all the progress and hope, funding for research that will push the next generation of cures remains scarce, and philanthropy is a key.

Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by the Italian academic system.

As she plunges into staggering depths of exhaustion, Marlo faces down opponents familiar to so many mothers: an ineffectual partner, moody daughter, and differently abled son (and a school system that fails him); scarce funds for child care; and a postpartum body — heavy, leaking, and unwieldy — that's no longer her own.

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

The key problem historically has been that when funding is scarce, the leaders of an entrepreneurial venture have to spend too much time fundraising and not enough time leading their organizations.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We are disappointed that the government has decided to spend scarce funding on expanding grammar schools.»

As funding becomes more scarce, the utilisation of funding to protect schools is extremely important, and those in education must look towards using smarter technology to achieve more for less money.

There are surely better uses for scarce taxpayer funds than subsidizing borrowers who are in the upper half of the income distribution and who hold graduate degrees.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

Superintendent Samuelson pointed to the consequence of within - state competition for the scarce resource of teachers, for funds, and for additional space.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Chicago's flunking policy has increased the dropout rate of retained students, has not improved their academic outcomes, wastes some $ 100 million in scarce school funds every year, and disproportionately affects African - American students.

And instead they wasted tens of millions of scarce taxpayer funds on out - of - state consultants, inexperienced staff and expensive new software in their race to the bottom.

Principals are challenged to be problem - solvers, especially in terms of allocating already - scarce funding for updating technology to support new assessments and purchasing new CCSS - aligned textbooks.

At a time when Ofsted and the Government are holding schools more accountable for the Pupil Premium, it will also help schools to ensure that they are making the most of their funding at a time of scarce public resources.»

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Rural communities all too often face scarce funding, instructors and facilities, forcing institutions to choose between offering a variety of introductory courses across a breadth of subjects or providing more narrowly focused, sequenced programs within one or two priority Career Clusters.

Second, resources are scarce, and any excess of funds tied up in teacher absence, which costs at least $ 4 billion annually, should be put to better use.

It now exempts counties with less than 285,000 constituents, where options are scarcer and loss of even minimal student funding could cripple districts.

There will be 36 gubernatorial elections in 2018, and some candidates have received contributions from DeVos and her family, while others are unabashed supporters of her agenda to drain scarce funding from public schools to give to private and charter schools in the form of vouchers or education tax credits.