Sentences with phrase «profession is on the increase»

He continued, stating the profession is attracting the country's top graduates, that he believed the prestige of the teaching profession is on the increase.

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Although mainstream psychiatry is fairly sceptical, an increasing number within the profession acknowledge the damaging effect of abortion on mental health and maintain that the symptoms relating to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly identified in the assessment of post-abortive women.

This standardization was the product of many factors, including: (1) professional politics within the mental health community, (2) increased gov involvement in mental health research and policymaking, (3) mounting pressure on psysts from health insurers to demonstrate the effectiveness of their practices,,,, Alan Stone, president of the APA in 1976, concluded that social psy and social activism, «carrying psyc on a mission to change the world, had brought the profession to the edge of extinction» (Wilson, 1993, p. 402)

We are developing #MITEY in recognition of the need for individuals and organisations to network on a national level around this important agenda — something that has become very obvious to us through a local project we have been working on in London, aimed at increasing recruitment of young men into the childcare profession.

the increased risk is going to be temporary as the profession gets on its feet.

Yet, many of my generation's young graduates are bound to realize, after a while on their jobs, that there is a great deal more to learn in order to keep up with the increasing demands of their professions.

Here's a little insight from the medical profession on COX: «The increase of evidence implicating COX - 2 in cancer has stimulated clinical trials to investigate the efficacy of selective COX - 2 inhibitors in individuals at risk for human cancer.

Recently, naturopathic medicine has been in the spotlight in Ontario, with increased media focus on the profession's transition to new regulations, as naturopathic doctors become a part of the Registered Health Professionals Act (RHPA).

Incremental cultural change The relentlessly negative focus on teacher stress drives new graduates into other professions, exacerbating the localised teacher shortages which already exist and which are increasing, particularly in the South East.

The National Union of Teachers said that the Government should focus on issues such as insufficient school places, a drop in the number of applicants for teaching and fact that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent since 2010.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

Increased accountability can be beneficial for the special needs population if public school IEP team members heed the voice of reason, employ the sensibilities of the special education profession, remember and reflect on why they became special educators, and exercise humanity by listening to the people who know students best, parents.

The School Teachers Review Body, which advises the government on teacher pay, has warned in the past that although larger increases are needed to keep the profession competitive, schools do not currently have the money to award much larger rises.

But given the disparities that exist — particularly in potential teachers» performance on standardized tests — it is still important to be cautious about increasing cut scores for various entry points into the profession.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

The gap between official statistics and the perceptions of the profession seems vast; school leaders across the country report that they are struggling to fill vacancies with suitably qualified permanent staff, right at the time when they face increasing numbers of pupils, higher accountability standards and more demands on subject specialisms.

But the Department for Education said: «It is completely misleading to suggest there are chronic shortages of teachers or that a record number of teachers have «quit» the profession - our increased spending on supply teachers simply reflects our increased total spending in response to rising pupil numbers.

The next remit to the Review Body must allow them to make the recommendations on pay that they believe are needed to ensure that teaching remains an attractive profession and can recruit and retain sufficient staff to be able to teach the increasing numbers of pupils that have been forecast.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

If this pattern is replicated in the proportion of teachers actually leaving the profession, this has the potential to place further pressure on the teaching workforce at a time when the EBacc, and rising pupil numbers, are both increasing the need for teachers in these subjects.

As the world gets smaller through ease of transportation and increased technological connection, the health professions strive to be on the forefront of disease prevention and detection.

On the flip side, our profession is also facing many challenges, such as the increase of pet owner expectations, increase in the competition, corporate consolidation, advanced technology, student loan debt, and work - life balance issues.

When people are able to experience animals first hand, their appreciation and concern for them increase, often igniting lifelong interests, avocations and professions focused on improving animal wellbeing.

Fortunately, while there are many things that we within the profession can be doing (and, in an increasing number of cases, are doing), there are also some simple things that you can be doing with your pets at home, both on a regular basis and immediately prior to and during a veterinary visit, to help ensure as peaceful an experience as possible... for everyone involved.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

I realize that civility in the legal profession is on the decline (perhaps another reason for increased lawyer depression, described in the last post).

Unless those Ph.D. s come to law teaching with respect for law's special expertise — and with new ideas for how to integrate their social science backgrounds into the world of law as it is experienced on the ground — then the move toward legal empiricism will only increase the unfortunate rift between tenured law faculties and the rest of the legal profession.22

A notable example was the increase of women in traditionally male - dominated professions and an emphasis on addressing workplace sexual harassment.

Traditional paths to practice are narrowing, competitive forces on the profession are increasing, and clients are demanding new types of services and service experiences.

The bulk of the proposed revisions are derived from changes to the ABA Model Rules based on the recommendations of the ABA's Ethics 2000 Commission and its more recent Commission on Ethics 20/20, which specifically looked at globalization and the profession's increased use of technology.

The same pressure to increase efficiencies and show ever improving value is being focused on the private practice legal profession with an intensity never before experienced.

«While this is a victory for us there is still mounting concern about the inaccessibility for some to enter the profession given what we are seeing in increase, licensing application fees, sky - rocketing tuition and other increased fees, so while we are very happy with the reversal on this initiative, this is a drop in the bucket.»

While it is easy for the law school administrations and academics to preach about their obligation to open up the profession and admit more students so as to avoid a monopoly in the profession the real reason for the decision to increase enrollment, at the University of Ottawa in particular, but I would suggest at each of the law schools in the province, has been a purely selfish financial one on behalf of the law schools and their faculty members.

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Although the records management (RM) profession is facing challenges with an increasing focus on information governance, the reality if that its role and function has been in great need for more than 30 years and remains a necessity today.

«As an association representing the legal profession, we are pleased that state policymakers recognized that providing indigent defense services is a societal obligation that should be paid for out of the state's General Fund and rejected a proposal to partly pay for those services with a $ 50 increase in the biennial attorney registration fee, which would have been an unfair surcharge on lawyers,» Gutekunst said.

At LexVita, we believe the best way to increase diversity and satisfaction in the legal profession is by connecting lawyers one - on - one, face - to - face, online.

In contrast, the trademark attorney listings remain largely unchanged; although it is worth noting that the traditional division of labour between the two sides of the profession continues to be less and less pronounced, as law firms take on increasing prosecution dockets and attorneys hire solicitors to build their litigation offerings.

Then there are all the pressures from outside the legal profession to increase access to justice and bring the legal system within reach of the man on the Clapham Omnibus.

ECEs have continued to advance their profession through increased levels of professional preparation and on - going professional learning, as well as being regulated by the Ontario College of Early Childhood Educators.