Sentences with phrase «rather than graduates»

The majority of formal work experience placements, such as industrial placements or summer internships, are aimed at current students rather than graduates.

Rather than graduating from a traditional teacher preparation college, TFA recruits complete five weeks of training and become certified through the state's Alternate Route to Certification program, administrators said.

Some D.C. charter high schools that have seen good results — like KIPP College Prep, Washington Latin, and Thurgood Marshall — prefer to keep students for five or six years rather than graduate them, unprepared, in a mere four.

However, if your child is over 40 pounds and less than 4 years old, it is recommended to find a safety seat with a higher weight limit rather than graduate to the booster seat.

We see people talking about student recruitment rather than graduate recruitment,» he said.

Not exact matches

He always found resourceful ways to make money, and after he graduated from college, he opted for entrepreneurship rather than wait for an internet company to take notice of him.

Of those that then choose to go back for a graduate degree, more and more choose other disciplines rather than pursuing a largely redundant MBA.

Rather than hiring new graduates for entry - level positions, recruiters are looking to take on people with experience.

Rather than continue to pay the minimum monthly payments on the remaining two loans, the recent graduate continues to pay the same amount they did before — $ 575 (or even more if they have the financial resources to do so).

And, rather than refocusing on associates degrees and certification programs, it has doubled down on its full undergraduate offerings and graduate degrees.

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

Our studies of graduate students and junior faculty show that they often view themselves as service providers rather than professors on a long - term mission.

Bankers would be expected to be college graduates, but they normally learned the business of banking by experience in banks rather than by special courses in an institution of higher education.

The second thing I have learned is that the student constituency most receptive to the church's ministry tends to be graduates rather than undergraduates.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

Whatever your thoughts about ghana's education are we are based on the much better British system rather than your hollow American one hence with only a tiny proportion graduating your government seeks to employ them in your public services.

Many of my fellow classmates in the same graduating class are looking for a college to join rather than to decide which part of the army they should apply, which makes me a happy camper but a younger friend of mine has already decided to apply himself in the army i asked him why and he just simply replied that it was for the country.

I also learned that Edison High School holds another tragic record - the most graduates to be killed in the Vietnam War of any high school in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the suburbs.

i studied printed textiles at college in South Africa, did an art & design foundation course in Grimsby, and eventually graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in textile design (specialising in embroidery), but i rediscovered the enthusiasm and passion for drawing & stitching i'd had since childhood through craft, rather than commercial design.

Ms Hunt added: «Lord Browne and the government must look seriously at the idea of taxing big business for the substantial benefits it gains from a plentiful supply of graduates and using that money to expand, rather than reduce, opportunity to study.»

«One of the options we are looking at - called the graduate contribution scheme, is that the basis on which graduates make a contribution to the university they've gone to is based on what they subsequently earn rather than the course that they've taken.»

Repayments will begin at a higher level, when a graduate is earning # 21,000 a year rather than the current # 15,000.

«The fair solution is to abolish tuition fees and ensure that graduate contributions are based on actual earnings in the real world, rather than sticker prices in prospectuses, which are based on guesswork.»

«Our Nigerian Law School would rather be glued to the archaic tradition of the colonial past being jettisoned by the British themselves and punish a second upper graduate for wearing a headscarf that the Nigerian Constitution guarantees her than toe the path of rationality.

Ahmed, who was represented by Dr Amina Ahmed, Kwara Commissioner for Tertiary Education, urged the graduates to be job creators rather than job seekers.

To date, he has attacked - a graduate tax, other possible alternatives - rather than defended the Government's policy.

That atmosphere that will give room for graduates to manifest their potentials and do something for themselves rather than depending on the institutions that government has provided by itself», he emphasized.

The Treasury is reportedly looking at the possibility of a graduate tax for students rather than a tuition fee hike.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

Do the dynamics of modern existence plump the temporal sulcus to send college graduates for a lifetime of highly social or even altruistic endeavors, impelling them to apply directly to Teach for America rather than an internship in the mergers and acquisitions department of a white - shoe Wall Street firm?

Gur advises graduate students and junior postdocs in the neurosciences to push themselves to get what they need from their program or school rather than just accepting the resources available.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

Rather than admit I didn't have nearly the amount of data he was asking for, I dedicated myself to working 21 hours a day for the next 3 days, hoping that my compliance with my adviser's request would result in something ridiculous, like me graduating.

In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.

Rather than say you don't have management experience, talk about your leadership in the lab or in graduate student or postdoc associations, and draw the connections that will show that you have the skills necessary to manage people.

Two years out of graduate school and keen on becoming a professor, Kaltenbacher was passionate about her work on inverse problems, which she describes as «mathematical modeling in a reverse way,» starting with observation rather than first principles.

But the facility still employs many graduates — a lot of whom would rather live in a broom closet on campus than move on.

Like the other PRI awards, the Graduate Student Prize carries prestige rather than monetary value and encourages young researchers to take a more active role in communicating the potential policy implications of their work.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

That decision declared graduate student assistants at private universities ineligible for unionization because, the board ruled, they are primarily students rather than workers.

Turley now tells other graduate students to seek help sooner rather than later.

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

Without oversight, Tilghman argued, it's easy for PIs to see and treat their graduate students as laborers rather than scientists in training.

It is unfortunate that most graduate programs in the sciences view the Ph.D. as a purely academic degree, rather than seeing its close similarity to professional degrees.

Mead's grad students wore sandals and cowboy boots, worked until 1 a.m., and often spent seven or eight years, rather than the usual four or five, earning their Ph.D. s. «It was a fantastically creative environment,» says Sarpeshkar, who graduated a year after Boahen.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

The latter requires an extra year's studying, so if you can show that your British qualification is equivalent to this, rather than a Licence, it will give you a better chance of securing a graduate - level job.

A more reliable way to ensure you end up working in Warsaw rather than Walsall may be to ask the U.K. recruitment departments of international companies about graduate vacancies in other countries; get the names of their overseas counterparts and any insider tips on how to make the application.