Sentences with phrase «opportunities for young people from»

It works to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility.

Caan, 52, was picked by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to help promote a campaign seeking opportunities for young people from all backgrounds.

Robinson and Nelson intend to focus the public reaction to their arrest toward providing opportunities for young people from underserved communities.

«This is a wonderful opportunity for young people from the national Shakespeare Schools Festival to tread the boards alongside celebrity performers and top criminal barristers - all in support of the Foundation's work with 1,000 schools every year.

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By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80

Education for marriage and pre-marriage counseling provides an opportunity for young people not yet ready for commitment — as well as for those thinking about or planning marriage — to study possible options and to identify and articulate their own hopes and expectations for marriage as well as what they expect and want from the person they marry.

«We believe that it is crucial to provide an opportunity for young people to enhance and acquire further skills to allow progression and to have a platform to move on from.

The tournament was organised to promote the sport in China and inspire young people to take up the sport but also served well as a great social opportunity for alumni from all four universities.

The football comes secondary to the cause, of course, with 90 per cent of the proceeds from the match going to the club's official charity — the LFC Foundation — to support its programmes and partnerships, which aim to create life - changing opportunities for children and young people.

The dads spent six months making the film, which they have called Dads Matter Too, applying for the grants from The Prince's Trust and Wiltshire Young People's Opportunity Fund which enabled them to make it, then filming and editing it themselves, and creating their own soundtrack.

For example, we know from existing research that social and emotional skills are critical to young people's academic success (Farrington et al., 2012), and that children must have the opportunity to practice and develop SEL skills such as empathy, perseverance, and collaboration, in order to thrive in careers, in family, and in community as adults (CASEL, 2015; Farrington et al., 2012; Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012).

Bemoaning the lack of opportunities for children and young people to mix with those from different backgrounds, the green paper states:

Segregated schools reduce opportunities for children and young people to mix with others from different backgrounds in their formative years and it can restrict pupils» outlook and education.»

We need to look carefully at what this light has uncovered — from the shadowy world of gangs to opportunities for work and training that young people need.

By cutting too far and too fast, the Prime Minister is kicking away the ladders of opportunity for young people and is stopping the next generation from getting on.»

The government takes comfort from the survey, which backs its programmes seeking to create opportunities for young people to follow their interests.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have announced today that they have secured a # 223m two year budget deal that prioritises the futures of our children and young people, and helps to ensure opportunity for all from cradle to college.

«Increasing the range of learning opportunities for young people was part of the strategy to tackle the long - standing problem of the disengagement of young people, post-14, from learning and to raise the UK's relatively low post-16 participation rate.

It was also a perfect opportunity for a young researcher to make his mark and, he hoped, help millions of people who suffered from the bone disease osteoporosis.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

They conclude: «Schools should acknowledge that sex is a special subject with unique challenges, as well as the fact and range of young people's sexual activity, otherwise [they] will continue to disengage from SRE, and opportunities for safeguarding and improving their sexual health will be reduced.»

The results have been all too visible: a «brain drain» to the United States, difficulties in recruiting the best and brightest from Asia, few opportunities for young people interested in careers in industry, and obstacles to mobility between countries and between academia and industry.

«In its direct engagement with the Home Office and the MAC, the Union has made clear that the impact of a salary threshold on migrant teachers would create serious problems for schools, unfairness for migrant teachers and deny children and young people the opportunity to benefit from the expertise of these highly skilled professionals.

The Department for Education should decline from stating or inferring that higher education and career opportunities will be limited by examination study in art and design, thus misrepresenting the subject to parents and young people.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

Thomas Philip: Social networking coupled with the access to international and alternative news sources create unprecedented opportunities for young people to develop global consciousness as they learn with others from across the world.

On opportunities for young people, Neil said: «This is an exciting and, often, daunting moment for young people and there is a fantastic array of options available that act as a springboard to a good career, from technical and vocational qualifications to academic routes.

These projects enhance the curriculum and provide opportunities for young people and schools to benefit from working with excellent practitioners able to inspire and engage staff, students and families, and offer a new way of working and learning.

Analysis of the following texts: - leaflets - theme of holidays and attractions - articles - theme of legal driving age - reports - adverts - newspapers - range of broadsheet and tabloid - posters - NSPCC - social media - tv news - autobiography - letters - ban mobile phones Differentiation by colour: yellow = higher ability blue - middle ability purple = lower ability These resources provide opportunities to: - Analyse language, form and structure of non fiction texts - analyse the use of persuasive language - write persuasively - create a wide variety of non fiction texts - explore texts from a variety of sources and media - explore relevant topics for young people - develop speaking and listening skills Ideal for KS3 ahead of GCSE 9 - 1

«These events told the oil and gas story from different perspectives, showing the breadth of opportunity that is out there for young people.

Ministers from across government are joining forces with engineers, industry experts and hundreds of businesses to change perceptions around engineering — and highlight the scale of opportunity that careers in the industry hold for young people in the UK.

Caroline White, Chief Executive of YHA (England and Wales), commented: «YHA has been creating learning outside the classroom since we started more than 80 years ago and, because of our Breaks for Kids bursary fund, financial circumstances don't stop young people benefitting from these brilliant opportunities.»

«The sad reality is that we are seeing signs of a reduction in learning opportunities for many young people across the country, with access to post-16 education under threat from college mergers or closures resulting from the ongoing area - based reviews.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said that this was particularly important for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds «who may not believe a particular opportunity could be open to them».

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

A safer and better internet for children and young people can only be achieved collaboratively, and as technology use continues to shift and new risks emerge, schools will continue to play a crucial role in empowering young people to make the most of opportunities offered by technology and to protect them from harm.

Recently, a diverse group of educationists from both the education and business worlds endeavored to envision what a 21st Century education should look like to prepare young people for the world of work and opportunity that exists right now.

For example, South Brooklyn Community High School moved from hosting one career day to three in which they provide opportunities for mock interviews with professionals from different industries as well as seminars from Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps prepare young people for professional and personal responsibiliFor example, South Brooklyn Community High School moved from hosting one career day to three in which they provide opportunities for mock interviews with professionals from different industries as well as seminars from Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps prepare young people for professional and personal responsibilifor mock interviews with professionals from different industries as well as seminars from Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps prepare young people for professional and personal responsibilifor a Better Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps prepare young people for professional and personal responsibilifor professional and personal responsibility.

This fantastic partnership will create thousands more opportunities for young people to benefit from NCS.»

Among many other things, these young people stated they «have the right to full educational opportunities... We graduate from schools and colleges, equipped for careers and professions, but there are no jobs.»

Giving young people from all backgrounds a greater opportunity to develop those skills can therefore be an engine for opportunity and social mobility.

This dramatic change means increased opportunities for American teachers abroad — and, potentially, increased competition in the U.S. from a new demographic of English - fluent and cosmopolitan young people from all over the world.

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This was an incredible learning journey for me, meeting some truly inspirational young people from across the world, having a growth mind set to learn and grasp every opportunity to listen, appreciate, and be empathetic of cultural and contextual differences.

Those practices range from incorporating discussions of current events and controversial issues in the classroom to offering opportunities for young people to become involved in their schools and communities outside of the classroom.

GradMinnesota connects individuals and communities to engage stakeholders at all levels to ensure that all young people in Minnesota will graduate from high school prepared for success in postsecondary opportunity, work, civic engagement, and life.

As this book clearly shows, disrupting the pipeline from end to end will require a complete reorientation of our values, systems, and practices, so as to construct new educational rights and opportunities for young people.

«This focus is helping to galvanize action from kitchen tables to school houses to communities, and it's helping to produce widespread progress on opportunities for young people to succeed in school and life.»

«We select especially talented young people and give them an opportunity at an early stage to learn from experienced colleagues from the entire company — for example, from the design departments, the MultiMedia Center, the pilot hall and the paint shop.»