Sentences with phrase «spending on academic research»

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Academic research suggests that long - term market declines can rub off on consumers, leading them to feel less affluent and therefore spend less money.

According to research commissioned by City & Guilds, in the first three years of the Coalition, MPs spent a total of 88 hrs 47 mins on academic debates — more than four times the amount spent on vocational education.

Lanza, a physician who had spent the past 20 years working in academic research and biotech on organ and cell transplantation, was one of West's first recruits.

Many undergraduates have spent summers or part of their academic year collaborating on research projects with faculty.

An ongoing NSF survey of academic research piloted a question about how much is being spent on such activities, and where on campus the research takes place.

I was riding high on a series of recent academic honors for my work studying toxigenic molds and was looking forward to spending a sabbatical leave at The Institute for Genomic Research, now the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Maryland.

India spends less than 1 % of its gross national product on research, and its academic system is in tatters.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rResearch Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rresearch training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on researchresearch.

[citation needed] Many graduate students feel that teaching takes time that would better be spent on research, and many point out that there is a vicious circle in the academic labor economy.

The research, from Canvas, the Virtual Learning Environment for academic institutions and companies worldwide, reveals that one in six (17 %) teachers in the UK are spending more than 11 hours a week on marking and assessments.

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

Since spending a year with Jobs For the Future traveling the country and researching workplace learning, career pathways, and apprenticeships, I've found that even folks who strive to find the glass half empty tend to be on board with programs that promote rigorous academic education coupled with career - ready skills that can open doors to a bright future.

In a 17 - page paper published recently by Learn Inc., a Washington - based policy - research organization, Mr. Walberg said Chapter 1 (formerly Title I) money has not raised the academic achievement of needy students and has often been spent on students who are not poor.

Previous studies measure research excellence based on number of publications, grants awarded, number of citations, peer / department chair rating, time spent on research activities, faculty membership in academic research societies, and awards for research.

Research shows that developmental education may discourage students or «divert» their academic progress, as students spend considerable time and money on developmental courses, but these credits do not count toward a college degree or transfer.

Research areas included identifying the most troublesome disruptive classroom behaviour in Australian primary school classrooms, observing primary teachers» use of approval and disapproval for academic and social behaviour in the classroom, quantifying the effect of classroom seating arrangements on student time spent «on task» and measuring the effect of implementing the strategies of Positive Teaching classroom behaviour management.

We can not count the times students have sought our academic writing and research services only because they have already spent a lot of money on another service and been handed an unacceptable product — with absolutely no recourse whatsoever.

Retirees and retirement planners alike should take note of academic research on spending trends.

For those not spending the time marching the kilometer or more between the negotiators» Bula Zone and the Bonn Zone — stopping off at the US Climate Action Pavilion on the way — you can still feel the surge in interest: a flurry of state - of - the - world journalism, the publication of academic and practitioner research, and pronouncements from political leaders and campaigners.

Her Fulbright will continue her research on effects of sea level change; she will spend the 2018 - 2019 academic year working at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, with a focus on how restored coastal wetlands affect flooding and management.

«The deal was that [Kogan] could keep all the data and do research or whatever he wanted to do with is and so for him it was appealing because you had a company that was the equivalent of no academic grant could compete with the amount of money that we could spend on it, and also we didn't have to go through all the compliance stuff,» added Wylie.

Research as early as 2005 by the Rand Corporation found a range of return on investment from $ 1.80 to $ 17 for each dollar spent on early childhood interventions.53 More recent studies of preschool (birth to age 5 years) education estimate a return on investment as high as 14 % per year on the basis of improved academic and occupation outcomes, in addition to lowered costs of remedial education and juvenile justice involvement.54

Arthur J. Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes that, «Careful academic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent on early childhood development provide extraordinary returns compared with investments in the public, and even private, sector.