Sentences with phrase «of this academic year so»

We'll also have some draft tasks to share with you before the end of this academic year so you can get an idea of what they will be like.

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For almost 60 years, Ryerson has combined academic rigour and relevant practical experience with accessibility and diversity to produce so many graduates who have contributed to the fabric of this country.

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

There was also an account of my elaborate academic sponsorship plan so I could afford to attend Yale — some corporation would pay for a year of education in exchange for labor or repayment down the line.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

BTW: For most Americans, a $ 75,000 / year income is really good; so, I can kind of see what the academics are thinking.

Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

It is passing strange that anyone should think Burtchaell, who has given so many years in the service of academic excellence, is advocating a return to the «ghetto.»

This was a remarkable time not only for the typical rites of passage — figuring out out how to live independently and negotiate the partying and alcohol and social pressures that accompany the college experience — but after my first year my parents pulled the financial plug so I not only needed to be responsible for my general behavior and academics, but also for paying for college.

Akufo - Addo said, government «will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards... so that no one in Ghana is left in any doubts.»

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

Furthermore, with a teaching load of three classes per term, he says that «there is zero time budgeted [for research] during the academic year,» so his research often gets shoved into the summer months.

As dual - career academics and parents of a 2 - year - old, Zermarie Deacon and her husband negotiate in advance which conferences each will attend, so that the other can stay at home and take care of the child.

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

In the 5 years since former president of Harvard University Lawrence Summers made a household name for himself by suggesting that women may lack an «intrinsic aptitude» for science, there's been a heightened sensitivity toward the factors in academic science and medicine that lead so many women to veer from the academic career path.

I decided not to go into practice but rather follow the academic pathway further and so completed two more years of subspecialty training at venerable institutions such as the University of Toronto and Harvard University.

For the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so - called neuromorphic computer architectures — chips that mimic the human brain's ability to be both analytical and intuitive in order to deliver context and meaning to large amounts of data.

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

More than 60 people — academic researchers, industry partners and interested members of the community — joined the staff at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB), at a meeting on July 19 and 20 to discuss the facility's progress so far and its aims over the next few years.

These benefits are available for up to four academic years, so in most cases, they won't cover the costs of both undergraduate and graduate or professional education.

«My sense is that the next 6 months or so will be critical» for the academic job market, says University of Oregon geography postdoc Jennifer Marlon, who also took a second postdoc, a 2 - year position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, funded by the National Science Foundation's Earth Science program.

But then there is the so - called 12 - year academic qualification limit — undoubtedly the most controversial of the bunch.

So in September that year, I began studying for a BSc in neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, and I have so far been achieving good grades.I would like to know how I can improve my chances of employment after graduation, and whether it would suit my ambition better to move along the academic or industrial routSo in September that year, I began studying for a BSc in neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, and I have so far been achieving good grades.I would like to know how I can improve my chances of employment after graduation, and whether it would suit my ambition better to move along the academic or industrial routso far been achieving good grades.I would like to know how I can improve my chances of employment after graduation, and whether it would suit my ambition better to move along the academic or industrial route.

Why has the number of academics on short - term contracts expanded so much on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years?

In the five short years of its existence, the Science Book Prize has so far been awarded to two American academics, one British writer resident in the US, one British scientist resident in Britain, and one committee — and it has never gone to a book about the physical sciences.

So as a 17 - year - old tagalong I had an international experience and that kind of flavored where I went, in terms of my academic trajectory.

«I've experienced Dr. DeLisa's academic contributions to the field of PM&R first hand for many years, so to receive this award is particularly meaningful to me,» noted Dr. Whyte.

Getting fit is also part of our new «academic» year resolution, so we have been flirting with the idea to take on some surf lessons.

And so, in choosing it as the film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.

Initially remote to the point of catatonia, Juliette has arrived to stay with Lea, a bright, perky academic, after serving 15 years in prison for a crime so horrific nobody can bring themselves to mention it directly.

The initiative — which has been operating in the North of England for more than five years — launched in Scotland this academic year and so far six schools from five local authority areas have signed up.

Many parents believe that so - called «academic redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, will give their children a leg up not only when they first enroll in school, but throughout their educational careers and later in life.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

But a variety of educators and politicians have declared that kids this age aren't ready for the academic demands of modern kindergarten, so they should first have a year of preschool.

Insofar as policy analysts, academics, and think tanks pay any attention to the topic, they almost always do so within the fundamental structures and parameters of the forty - plus - year - old policy regime that was inaugurated with President Ford's signature.

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The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

Alarming findings from the Youth Sport Trust (YST) suggest that 38 per cent of English secondary schools have cut timetabled Physical Education for 14 - 16 year - olds since 2012, while almost one in four (24 per cent) have done so in the last academic year.

This connection between academic achievement and self - regulated learning may be due to self - regulated learning capabilities helping students to extend their understanding of different subject areas, so that their capacity to learn new skills is strengthened during their years of schooling.

So even as Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby reports solid gains by charter pupils in New York City, Ohio's school - rating system for academic year 2008 - 9 showed that just 16 % of Buckeye charter pupils were in schools rated «excellent» or «effective,» while 55 % of them attended schools on «academic watch» or in «academic emergency.»

«The emphasis for so long has been placed on academic performance and academic content mastery,» said panelist Rebecca Snyder, a co-author of the NNSTOY report and member of Greater Latrobe Education Association in Pennsylvania where she was teacher of the year in 2009.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

«The social media will hopefully provide people an opportunity to share their photos and reflections so that they can see themselves as part of a global, as well as local, Harvard community,» DeAmicis said, noting that plans are already underway to host another Global Day of Service in the upcoming academic year.

The Stanford researchers followed student - level performance in schools from the time they open through their fifth year, mapping charters» academic showing against a «static set of performance thresholds» so that academic trends over time could be evaluated.

This is a growing percentage: 81 per cent of academies that opened in the 2014/15 academic year did so as part of a MAT, up from 73 per cent in 2013/14.

I would agree with you that if the new Charter's have to run a certain standard, those charter's already in place should be required to comply with the new standards in a certain period of time (perhaps 1 - 2 academic years after passage so that the charter school may properly adjust).

And we can not even begin to question the dedication of teachers and the obscene amount of hours worked in an academic year, I'm no mathematician but just a quick calculation would indicate the average teacher works 60 hours per week, based upon this very broad assumption it's possible to suggest the average teacher works approximately 2000 + hours during an academic year, so it does beg the question, considering the Maxwell Curve; How much more effective and «healthy» would the teaching profession become if the principle of «less is more» underpinned it's mantra?

Overall, the reported academic gains of students enrolled in these schools were so miniscule, says Margaret Raymond, executive director of CREDO, it was «literally as though the student did not go to school for the entire year.»