Lewis Hay, executive chair of NextEra Energy, based in Juno Beach, Florida, stated that young students often don't know what jobs a STEM education can lead to, and so acquiring math and science skills doesn't interest them.
Not exact matches
The H1B highly
skilled immigrant visa is limited to 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees — not much when you consider that U.S. universities pump out 1
science graduate for every five China
does.
«The
skill set of starting my presidential campaigns — and building the kinds of teams that we
did and marketing ideas — I think would be the same kinds of
skills that I would enjoy exercising in the private sector... The conversations I have with Silicon Valley and with venture capital pull together my interests in
science and organization in a way I find really satisfying.»
Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the
skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer
science industry on the whole but
does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.
If you
do happen to be a developer or a data scientist, you can develop new trading indicators from scratch and monetize your data
science skills through the Signals Indicator Marketplace.
Although, most Ph.D. candidates in the social
sciences have well developed writing
skills, which you
do not), yet your post is peppered with terms used in ways no natural scientist would use them.
Ironically I really like
science but I guess what I learned didn't really transfer to my baking
skills.
«We found that children in the first, second and third grades who sing these songs demonstrate
skills absent in children who don't take part in similar activities,» explains Dr. Idit Sulkin a member of BGU's Music
Science Lab in the Department of the Arts.
Doing science at home is not just for fun, it is also to cultivate child's interest in
science and help them grow scientific thinking
skills.
It's a good
skill to have and it just goes to show that cleaning doesn't require a degree in rocket
science.
One commenter (who, for the record,
does not have a problem with the Lego Friends line) wrote that the main problem with the princess phenomenon is that most of the toys involved don't help girls develop math and
science skills.
All the
science projects you are
doing are great for building up observation
skills and scientific curiousity.
The
science behind the reasons sleep is a learned
skill — and the reason that going with your child's natural sleep tendencies doesn't work for a lot of babies.
«The work I
did used my verbal and math
science skills,» he says.
You can help your child learn important
skills and spend time on quality activities with these
science products that are smart, interesting, and accepted in their age group (i.e. fun and cool, so they don't just collect dust).
It's my impression that the hiring individuals don't sufficiently understand or appreciate the
skill set of a biosystems engineer and overlook them because they think that the degree doesn't sound specific enough, like «food
science» or «mechanical engineering».
Tooling up to
do cutting - edge network research requires, first, honing the quantitative and methodological
skills from your discipline that are pertinent to network
science.
While a good knowledge of environmental issues is important, he is convinced that «you don't need a double PhD in climate
science», but a good range of
skills.
Although we believe that professional assistance from a
skilled immigration attorney can be valuable in navigating complex immigration processes,
Science's Next Wave
does not endorse a particular firm.
She
does however, highlight that many scientists are quite
skilled at presenting important and complicated
science in ways that make it accessible to a more general audience.
Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate
science activity to
do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication
skills are key to our work.
«One of the things that the presence of large - scale
science infrastructure
does is that it increases the
skills pool, and helps Africa to have something we have not seen on the continent in some time, and that is a brain gain rather than a brain drain,» she said.
«Everything we
do as faculty requires communication
skills,» stresses Wendi Heinzelman, dean of graduate studies for arts,
sciences, & engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester.
«We need to get more women into leadership roles in the
science and engineering enterprise» throughout the world, Richmond said in an interview after the summit, «and sometimes this will mean women will be going to uncomfortable places of speaking out and using other
skills that they might not be comfortable
doing in their countries.»
Despite a longstanding dismal job market in academic
science, however, departments continue to recruit graduate students and postdocs because they need
skilled and inexpensive labor to
do the work promised in professors» grant proposals.
Doing productive
science with colleagues from other countries — whether you've gone abroad as an international student, postdoc, or more senior researcher, or are working in your own country with collaborators or subjects located elsewhere — thus demands not only «high - level scientific
skills» but also attention to «cultural and social aspects [that] are not intuitive.»
So, these questions I think can be translated for the general audience, but we
do have an audience that is less
skilled in talking about
science than most of us would like.
«In the traditional
science track, you learn to
do one thing very well, but there's no real opportunity to develop teaching
skills,» explains Bockholt, who «turned down faculty positions and took the job at CELL to really broaden my
skills...
skills that I couldn't get in a research position.»
And don't expect that you'll be sitting in the back row every week: Sometimes you'll be demonstrating your own scientific insight and developing your
science communication
skills.
Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many
Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the
skills of some 70,000
science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many
science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were
done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.
The most likely response is that the vast majority of the applicants don't have the training or
skill set the employer wants, even though the applicants have a Ph.D. in physics, chemistry, or another
science discipline.
Running a laboratory is
skill - and time - intensive; when the grant proposals are written, the technicians hired, and the discontented postdocs assuaged, there can seem to be little time left for
doing actual
science — especially when teaching, professional service, and raising families is thrown into the mix.
The best cognitive
skill for
doing science, according to Haack, is common sense.
I meet these people whenever I visit a major research institution: graying, in their late»40s or even their»50s, highly
skilled,
doing good
science, whether independently or as part of a team, but still earning — if they're lucky — just a little more than a first - year NRSA fellowship stipend.
Strong candidates will be proficient in the Perl programming language; modern biology in general and bioinformatics in particular; show a demonstrated ability to quickly pick up new biology and computer
science concepts; be comfortable using relational databases; and possess core Unix
skills to
do these tasks efficiently.
Rivera was given access to all the supplies and facilities she needed to
do first - class
science, and she was encouraged to master as many
skills as she could during her stay.
If we can pull any lessons from the motivations of
science bloggers, scientists who use social media
do so overwhelmingly to practice their own communication
skills, to explain and communicate
science to lay audiences, to foster public interest and to connect with others.
It's not an idle question, because Garland's
science - fiction horror thriller has much of the same visual flourishes, intellectual weight and soaring ambitions as Kubrick's landmark space epic — even if it doesn't quite match Kubrick's
skill at imparting grand ideas.
REVIEW BioEd Online is a site designed to enhance the
skills and knowledge of
science educators and it provides the materials and information to
do just that.
She has succeeded, notes Khalil - Naji - Otto, «because she mastered the basic math,
science, and writing
skills that enable her to compose business letters,
do basic accounting, create an exciting portfolio,» and, as her class is now seeing, communicate a profound understanding of the
science of colors.
The Linked Learning initiative is building a half - dozen or more career pathways in each of nine school districts, on the theory that students can get all the math, English,
science, and social studies they need for a university, along with technical and job
skills, but
do it in a way that makes learning more fun and gives them real, relevant work experience.
Some may not yet have developed the English
skills to thrive in advanced math or
science classes, but that doesn't mean they are limited when it comes to creative problem solving.
Do these patterns reflect the nature of the job opportunities available to individuals with math and
science skills in the broader economy?
As a close look at the data from PISA reveals, the income gap in the United States
does not explain the inability of our schools to teach our students basic math,
science and reading
skills.
The only way to
do well on these tests is to teach students well — and not just basic
skills, but a well - rounded curriculum that includes art and music, history and
science, geography and literature.
This product contains 20 writing prompts having to
do with SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY or general
science skills used all year.
Women with high aptitude or math and
science skills have chosen such professions over teaching, perhaps because these professions
do reward workers based on their
skills and performance.
So, when I went into teaching I made sure that it was all about the
skills of
science —
science is
doing not sitting at a desk reading a text book or completing worksheets.
They also found that salaries in private schools correspond to aptitude and scarce
skills (such as math and
science skills) more than they
do in public schools.
U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why
Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure
skills used by real scientists than
do multiple - choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.