Sentences with phrase «of school work better»

How can they do an item of school work better than just the way it was assigned?

The chief executive of the National Governors Association (NGA), Emma Knights, said her association agreed with Lord Nash that groups of schools worked best when the schools were within «half a lunchtime or period's travel of each other».

Not exact matches

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.

Encouragement and appreciation can also prompt employees to give you their best work, as evidenced by a study conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

This research shows that this kind of attitude adjustment will literally change the way their brain works for their better, giving them a boost at school.

«What remains to be seen is the game plan, the sequencing, the processes involved as well,» John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, told Bloomberg Television.

Make sure an introduction includes the statement «I'm a student at...» This especially works well when networking with graduates of your own school.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

What it really means is getting good grades, going to a great school, getting a job, and then working your way up the proverbial ladder of success.

«Now we have better work, better schools, homes of adobe, and a greater brotherhood of decision makers.»

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life people have in the States — a good house, a nice car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

«I was the type of person that had no problem following the boss or leader in the room, but working on school projects, I realized I had really good leadership skills.»

The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and School Leaders Now.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

According to some of Canada's top luxury real estate agents, the wealthy are looking for value in their new home — properties that are in good locations, in close proximity to work and local schools.

While the first 100 days of the newly minted dean augur well for Kellogg, there is still much work to be done at a school that has lost momentum, if not its edge, among the...

While the first 100 days of the newly minted dean augur well for Kellogg, there is still much work to be done at a school that has lost momentum, if not its edge, among the business school elite.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

«Many federal integration programs are not working particularly well,» says Naomi Alboim, a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

If you fancy working in the dental health profession but can't see yourself enduring or affording all those years of dental school, starting a career as a dental hygienist might be a good option with a good income and a positive employment outlook.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

Peter Tokar, who serves as the president of the Alpharetta Technology Commission, tells Inc. that he's worked in partnership with Priority Payment as well as the computer gaming startup Kano, to provide 100 computers to Alpharetta schools this year.

Those partners evaluate one another through a peer - review process, which works well «in settings where you have owners who are also involved in management,» says Peter Sherer, an associate professor at the University of Oregon's business school.

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management professor Lauren Rivera's research found that relatively untrained interviewers often look for «potential friends and «playmates» rather than those with the best work experience or job - relevant skills.»

Whitehead, meanwhile, holds a chair in physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia as well as working in the school's Education Innovation department.

Sauder, which is currently the highest ranked school in North America for the international mobility of its graduates, according to the Financial Times, emphasizes the importance of global experience through its course content, as well as the support services it provides to students and graduates seeking work outside of Canada.

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

Why «morningness» might be associated with greater positive emotion in all age groups is related to the concept of «social jet lag» — the idea that people who tend to stay up later for work or play develop sleep patterns that don't mesh well with the typical 9 - to - 5 cycle of work or school.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

With Buffett involved, the odds are better than average they'll make it work, said James Angel, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business.

Of course, if you work in an area with an open enrollment, perhaps the parents would be happy to drive their children to the better schools and live a little farther away in order to have that extra room.

«The Mayors» Council plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.

Author or contributing author of dozens of scholarly and practitioner articles, books and programs, Richard's work has been described by various faculty at Harvard, Yale, London Business School and elsewhere as «great & much needed,» «wonderful and pragmatic,» «thorough» and «nothing short of remarkable,» as well as by Fortune 500, NYSE, FTSE and other company leaders as «leading edge,» «ground - breaking,» «valuable guidance,» «indispensable,» «compelling» and «exceptional.»

Professor Benedict H. Gross, who was dean of Harvard College from 2003 until 2007, the time period in which Facebook transformed the school, expressed admiration for Zuckerberg, and says he now sends good undergraduates from the Math Department out to work with Zuckerberg in Palo Alto.

«B.C. was the second - best province in Canada just six years ago for youth economic engagement, but now Statistics Canada says that one in 10 B.C. youth between the ages of 15 and 19 are not working or in school,» said New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby.

As an Adjunct Professor at USC Marshall School of Business, I have the the privilege of working with some of the best resources in the world.

Jim Dewald, dean of the Haskayne School of Business, and himself an engineer with business degrees, says the new program will help future engineers better understand the business side of the projects they will work on.

This is certainly good news for our roads, bridges, schools and other public works, many of which are in sore need of a spit shine.

During his MBA, Sid worked at Bandera Partners LLC in New York under well - known value investor, Jeff Gramm, Founder of Bandera Partners and Adjunct Value Investing Professor of Columbia Business School.

Building better communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality ofbetter communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality ofBetter communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality of Life.

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

A holistic approach to childcare should include removing barriers to and incentivizing private sector participation and an exploration of better alignment between school and work hours, including afterschool programs.

Whether they're looking after our babies, infants, toddlers, or school - aged beacons of joy, we're able to work and take care of our other obligations with more ease when we know that our kids are safe, secure, and well looked after while in their care.

Why do they work so hard to force such good people down, attacking the open practice of faith at high school football games or in public offices?

You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

... If someone works hard in school and develops good financial habits, they're more likely to do reasonably well financially than most people were for most of human history.»