Sentences with phrase «on academic policy»

The new Regulatory Task Force on Academic Policy, which is being led by Phil Weinberg, the deputy chancellor for teaching and learning, will report twice a year on how closely schools are complying with graduation requirements.

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Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.
Last week Abe also nominated academic Kikuo Iwata, who supports unconventional monetary policy, and BOJ official Hiroshi Nakaso, who has hands - on knowledge of the central bank's inner workings, as the BOJ's next two deputy governors.
On the second day of the hearings, the telecom regulator heard from Telus, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, OpenMedia.ca and academics.
While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.
Economists and academics are divided on whether the Fed's policies have truly helped the rich at the expense of the rest of America.
It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.
Tiff is a well - known expert in monetary and financial systems and has contributed articles to academic journals, as well as providing chapters and commentaries on monetary and financial sector policy and international economics in books and conference proceedings.
A leader in research and analysis on Canada - Asia relations for over 30 years, APF Canada partners with government, business leaders, academics, and opinion makers in Canada and across the Asia Pacific region to offer clear, specific, and actionable policy advice.
Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.
He has published several articles on monetary policy issues in refereed academic journals.
Cited thousands of times in the news media and academic literature, Dr. Morgan's work on the topic has helped to spark national policy debate regarding universal pharmacare in Canada.
Academics ◾ LGBT students at schools with comprehensive policies on bullying and harassment are much more likely to report harassment to school authorities who, in turn, were more likely to respond effectively.
Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the orthodoxies claimed by economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes,
Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as it is necessary to be able to demythologize the stories of the scriptures.
When we view the domination of the university by academic disciplines based on modern metaphysics, and the domination of the world by policies that derive from the theories taught there, it is hard not to become deeply discouraged.
Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as is accepted in the case of the stories of the scared scriptures.
It is not clear whether such an oath would be compatible with the policy on academic freedom of the American Association of University Professors and its provisions for academic tenure.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's (RSPO) 14th Annual Roundtable Meeting (RT14) urged corporate leaders, NGOs, policy makers and academics to step up and join forces to ensure an effective and sustainable palm oil ecosystem.
Jennifer Brown Lerner, policy manager for the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, said the NFL needs to brand flag football as a viable option.
Further testing was also conducted with other key stakeholders (policy officers, public health academic, nutritionists, health promotion officers) via the use of a response form on a website.
With these articles, the project takes its first steps towards establishing new avenues of communication between academics working on democratization and the policy - makers who put democracy promotion into practice.
The Oxford University China - Africa Network (OUCAN) brings together academics, policy makers, and industry experts from four continents to push forward research on Sino - African issues.
Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.
Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.
As well as leading on and participating in a range of research and evaluation projects, the team also contributes to the development of effective policy and practice through the interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of research findings, and acts as a knowledge broker between policy and practice stakeholders, researchers and the academic sector (in the UK and Europe) to strengthen links and collaboration.
On the BBC's Sunday Politics programme this week, former Defence Secretary and darling of the Tory Right, Liam Fox, suggested that «it is a game for academics» to discern as to whether a Cameron Government policy (i.e. without Liberal Democrat restraint) would be that different from a Coalition Government policy.
The Free Senior High School Policy, described by Mr Akufo - Addo as «my obsession», he said, is on its way to being fulfilled, indicating that his government will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards.
Dr. Ahmad has published widely on politics and foreign policy of Pakistan, and regional security and integration issues in South Asia, in international academic journals and edited volumes.
The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth in September of last year to bring leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.
I am constrained to make this final intervention on the impact of multiple and hugely divergent foreign exchange rates as well as unclear, unarticulated and confusing economic policy on foreign direct investment in response to our «academic» economist's long treatise of May 18, 2017 in this newspaper.
«The Welsh Liberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social background.
David Cameron's policy guru Steve Hilton is reported as having submitted a paper proposing a # 25 billion reduction in spending on benefits before leaving for an academic sabbatical in the US.
While on - air gaffes clearly make great television drama, news editors have at their disposal many information - rich sources that could be used to more routinely question the parties» policies, from economists and academics to legal, medical or environmental experts.
And how Policy Exchange uses the front of academic responsibility to push a political agenda on dubious research grounds:
«The networks don't seem to affect academic performance,» said study co-author Norm Fruchter, who serves on the city Panel for Educational Policy, in addition to his academic work.
Well, I am a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, vice-chair of the party's national policy committee, and a former Director of Policy of the party, as well as having written as an academic on aspects of liberpolicy committee, and a former Director of Policy of the party, as well as having written as an academic on aspects of liberPolicy of the party, as well as having written as an academic on aspects of liberalism.
«We are going to partner with you in the academics as we work on this policy framework to engage all Nigerians in Diaspora.»
If he were to lose the leadership election he would go immediately I think, but this is a man who spends almost all his time on policy issues, he has little life outside politics and has spent all his life since his teens on either academic or political pursuits, I'm sure he would find his own nature militating for him to continue and he would probably see a General Election loss with him as PM as something he had to rectify.
Speaking at the press conference on Thursday, the Education Minister said the commitment to the Free SHS policy, earmarked to start in the 2017/2018 academic year, was an indication...
Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, said the varied makeup of the commission — a mix of elected officials, academics and policy experts — will encourage a healthy discussion on how to overhaul New York's campaign - finance system.
Guerrero's outlook on public policy is what can be loosely described as a long - range academic enthusiast.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, the group of academics, teachers, authors and charity leaders call for a fundamental reassessment of national policies on early education.»
In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Friday Okonofua, said the lecture was aimed at bridging the gap between academics, policy makers and government officials on what needed to be done to recover the Nigerian educational system to galvanise and ensure the future development of the country.
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña on Aug. 4 announced a new task force to investigate allegations of cheating and other violations of academic policy in the public schools.
«The fellowship gave me hands - on policy experience to complement my academic training,» Ashcroft said.
Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.
The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.
Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.
My first duty as chair was to seek contact with and recognition by the Office of the President and two UC - wide committees responsible for postdoc policy and practices: the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), which handles academic affairs, and the Council of Graduate Deans (CoGD), which deals with administrative affairs.
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