Sentences with phrase «skill in a given country»

We used performance on 12 of these standardized tests as rough measures of the average level of cognitive skill in a given country.

Not exact matches

Last year, in an attempt to address the growing STEM skills gap in Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) led a collaborative effort by 29 organizations to give every 7th grader in the country a pocket - sized programmable computer that helps teach coding in a simple, fun, and accessible way.

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But as they opened their big book in front of him and told him gays were out, nonbelievers were bad and anything our country did was good, my son gave up camping and outdoor skills with the Scouts.

The idea of the program, which originated with Claudia Koch - Brandt (Mainz) and Joachim Herz and Nancy Street (UT Southwestern), is to give life science graduate students from both institutions the opportunity to work in a foreign laboratory, learn new methods and technical skills, and experience another country with, possibly, a different philosophy of science.

Although an intravenous vaccine will be fine for Western travelers or soldiers, giving the injections safely will be a challenge in poor countries where skilled health workers are scarce — especially in small children whose veins are hard to find.

More recently, Judith Torney - Purta's analysis of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's civics assessment (given to 90,000 14 - year - olds in 28 countries) found that civics instruction correlates, controlling for demographic factors, with improved civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

However, few researchers actually gave much credit to the learning itself, assuming many schools in developing countries were of such low quality that they couldn't possibly be teaching useful skills to women.

Countries (or national subdivisions) that lead the PISA, including Singapore, Shanghai, Canada, Finland, South Korea, and Japan, very broadly share a model one could see as the inverse of ours: they draw teachers from among their most talented people, prepare them extensively and with close attention to practice, put them in schools buffered from some of the effects of poverty by social welfare supports, and give them time while in school to collaborate to develop and improve their skills.

Raymond argued that in order to bridge the gaps with higher achieving countries and overcome inequities within the American education system, adults must explicitly model and teach children the social and emotional skills — such as perseverance, goal - setting, and relationship - building — that will give them the motivation, confidence, and ability to succeed in school and the workplace.

Unitec is the largest Institute of Technology / Polytechnic in the country and is one of New Zealand's premier applied learning institutes; all of our teaching is focused on giving students skills and capabilities they can use in the workplace.

«Importing skills may bring quick results, but in the long term the benefits will be rather limited, given that most of the knowledge will not remain in the country or the region,» he says.

Together, they give a comprehensive picture of demand and supply conditions in each country's skilled labour market, reflecting the experiences of the people on both sides of hiring tables in North America, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia.

It gives you an opportunity to develop skills that go beyond the normal scope of skills that you may develop in your home country.

If you're bilingual or multilingual, working in a non-English speaking country could give you the opportunity to use your language skills.

Your years of service in the military have given you a unique skill set that is highly sought after and valued by our federal government as well as thousands of private sector employers across the country.