Sentences with phrase «range of subjects at»

I did an unusually wide range of subjects at university, a little bit of a lot of things including humanities, some science, and various design disciplines, so I have some understanding of how things» connect».

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In contrast, MBA degrees offer a wide range of subjects as part of the curriculum, ensuring that you'll have at least a passable level of knowledge in all of the crucial areas of business.

Munger, 93, is chairman and a director at Daily Journal, a Los Angeles - area publishing company, and his appearance at its annual meeting is a chance to hear his views on a wide range of subjects.

Since God's creation ex nihilo of a new entity is the establishment of that entity as a free subject, it follows that it would be a contradiction in terms to imagine that God (or any other agent), at the level of creativity - characterization, could eliminate that concrescence's subjectivity, reduce its range of options to zero, or wholly destroy its freedom.

I assume that Douglas's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek when he wrote this assessment, but his comment hints at a wide range of opinion about the subject, from those people who believe, like cookbook author Manju Shivraj Singh, that «the tongue becomes a slave to the flavor of curry — it is an addiction,» to critics who view curry as an insipid yellow powder that is turned into a floury, yellow cream sauce.

Few editors come out of the university womb so well - rounded in a wide range of topics that they can be considered subject matter experts at their first editorial jobs.

Ahead of the Premier League finale at Arsenal on Sunday, the Blues boss discussed a range of subjects, including: - Building a strong team for next season.

He suggested that instead of promoting the EBac, the Government should «look at how the whole assessment system could be transformed, with more teacher and ongoing assessment, a greater range and type of subjects on offer to inspire pupils and parity between the vocational and the academic.»

«There's a danger in overstating the extent of the ideological shift because the range of issues that we tackle at the municipal level are much narrower than those that are tackled at the state and federal level and I find that there's a broad based consensus on most of the subjects that come before the City Council,» he said.

In education, data enabling parents to see how effective their school is at teaching high, average and low attaining pupils across a range of subjects will be published from next January.

For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.

The analysis of curricula looked at the entire range of subjects, while the analysis of textbooks focused on history, government / politics, native language and foreign languages, i.e. subjects that are of significance in matters of national identity and national policy.

A tireless investigator and a Nobel prize winner at a time when not many Americans were, he had a penchant for controversy in subjects ranging from cosmic rays (which he named) to the support of science

In one as - yet unpublished study of 156 addicts ranging in age from 24 to 68 at a methadone clinic, the subjects» reported levels of boredom were the only reliable factor that predicted whether they would stay on course, Todman notes.

A political science professor, much admired for his writing on subjects ranging from the RCMP to the financing of the Liberal Party, Whitaker mentions in passing that last year, at age 58, he retired from York University — apparently because he couldn't stand the system any longer.

Seminar topics range from entrepreneurship and use of animal and human research subjects to neuroethics, an area of study at the CSNE that focuses on the ethical implications of technology used to reconnect the brain and body.

Since the CO-tip AFM is subject to short - range repulsive interactions, the contrast in the images shows that the onset of short - range repulsion occurs first at B sites, then at C sites and finally at N ones.

Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7

Researchers at the five - day conference, which ends Nov. 20, will attend nine half - day sessions featuring nearly 1,000 talks on subjects ranging from space and astrophysical plasmas to the challenges of producing magnetic fusion energy.

They subjected mixtures of Na - Si to various pressures and temperature regimes and found a type of clathrate, Na8Si46, that formed at pressures ranging from 20,000 to 60,000 times atmospheric pressure (2 to 6 gigapascals, GPa) and temperatures of 1160 to 1520 °F (900 to 1100 K).

A year later, a study conducted at New York's Hunter College used wearable devices to monitor the physical activity levels of 332 subjects based in countries around the world such as the United States, Ghana, Jamaica, South Africa, and Seychelles to account for a wide range of different lifestyles.

Well — the good folks over at the Chopra Center have created a great little «playlist» of guided meditations on subjects ranging from empowerment to letting go of pain, to gratitude, to awakening creativity.

Comparing conventional free weight, dynamic training at long and short muscle lengths, McMahon et al. (2014) used a range of exercises in which the subjects performed either full or partial ranges of motion.

Mullick and Tariq use a wide range of cinematic techniques to convey the tenuous environment in which their subjects find themselves: the uneasy sense of oasis the runaways feel at one of the Edhi Foundation's clinics and those occasional moments where youths such as Omar lash out, puncturing the establishment's haven - like feeling.

Film directed by Wim Wenders gives us a restrained but personal look at the head of the Catholic Church and his views on a range of subjects.

by Rachel Willis This year's batch of Oscar nominated documentary short films offers a look at wide - ranging subjects.

SILENCE Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Issei Ogata, Yôsuke Kubozuka If you look back at the fifty year career of filmmaker Martin Scorsese, you will see a wide range of stories each filled with a passion and vigor for it's subjects.

This year's batch of Oscar nominated documentary short films offers a look at wide - ranging subjects.

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

The subjects range from artistic portraits of scenes and characters to looks at Jean Marais getting his beast make - up.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

For the rest of the day, the president, known for sharing his thoughts on a wide range of subjects on social media, never acknowledged the walkouts, in which students in every time zone spilled from their classrooms at 10 a.m. to remember the victims of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and to call for new gun laws.

I run an initiative introducing «the world» to kids through a cross curricular range of subjects and I'm looking at «blended learning» techniques to enhance the absorption of material.

He said: «I can think of youngsters, even at the highest - performing schools, who will find it a problem, I can think of youngsters who would have been better suited to do English, Maths and Science and a range of vocational subjects.»

Free powerpoints to download on a range of subjects all submitted by teachers in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, geography, english, history, spanish, french, german and religion aimed at all levels.

This unit of work uses the Jurassic Coast as a theme around which to build learning at Key Stage 2 and 3 across a range of subjects.

In 2016, the north ‑ east had a sharp drop in entries, with the proportion of pupils entering at least on arts subject ranging from 57.3 per cent in the south ‑ west and 47.8 per cent in the north east — a gap of 9.5 percentage points.

We have the potential, here, to solve two problems at once: the reputation of our subject as elitist and boring (by portraying a wider range of activities in maths) and the shortage of good maths teachers (by encouraging a stronger pipeline of diverse mathematicians at every level from early years to teacher training and beyond).

This bundle combines resources for: Improving handwriting Assessing the gaps in a student's literacy skills so the teacher knows what needs to be improve upon Practical strategies for teachers to differentiate reading material to make it accessible for all pupils - regardless of their ability range A grid outlining explicitly the active literacy skills that are embedded in the content of all subjects in secondary schools A resource for engaging reluctant readers A resource for Parents» Evening to show concerned parents simple techniques that will help them to build their child's spelling skills at home This bundle supports all subjects across the curriculum - including SEN and EAL groups too

It has been suggested to include: evidence - based initiatives and investment to tackle subject specialist shortages at both primary and secondary level; plans to focus recruitment to regions of the country in most need, particularly since the failure of the National Teaching Service; the range and performance of ITT providers in terms of recruitment and retention of teachers; and a thorough plan for the evaluation of any initiatives and how any findings will feed into future plans for teacher recruitment.

Matt Rogers, ICT subject leader and teacher, offers some insight into life at Snowsfields: «Over the course of the past two years we have worked extremely hard to ensure that our pupils are given access to, and allowed to explore a range of different software and hardware to help scaffold their own learning.

The framework contains learning outcomes which maps to the PSHE and Computing Curriculum, but it also presents opportunities for teachers to incorporate online safety into a range of other subjects, e.g. English, and while it doesn't provide teaching resources, it does give schools a very clear idea of the competencies pupils should have at each stage of their learning.

The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented.

King's College School offers GCSE revision classes in a range of core subjects to Year 11 students at the secondary schools in the Wimbledon ISSP.

Teachers at Harrow School help pupils from a local sixth - form college prepare for Oxbridge interviews in a range of different subjects.

Scenes show successes and struggles of real teachers and students as they navigate the challenges of project - based learning across a range of subject areas at New Tech West High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

«The exam boards have welcomed this steer from the regulator and are to look again at these qualifications and how the rules are interpreted to make sure that young people taking them have to study an appropriate range and depth of the subject.»

While the application process includes a subject - specific aptitude test, it's not simply the top scorers who get admitted; half come from the middling range because, according to Sahlberg (2015), a former director general at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, «academically best students are not necessarily the best teachers.»

«This continuing rise in numbers, coupled with the excellent pass rates achieved, is proof that the brightest students are recognising the wide range of opportunities that doing these subjects offer for further study at A-level and out in the job market,» she said.

Because programs produce teachers across a range of grades and subject areas, looking at the overall and average student growth achieved by graduates provides meaningful insight into program quality and should anchor the accreditation process.»