Sentences with phrase «straight-a student»

The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

He also acquitted himself well with the influential directors and philanthropists on Branksome's board, and took care to ensure that the construction site itself wasn't a noisy nightmare for the students and neighbours.

Students have the option of undertaking a six - month part - time internship, or a four - month full - time placement at the end of the intensive one - year program.

Whether you are a K - 12 student, guardian, or coach, understanding what teachers go through is important to combat this ignorance and promote understanding.

Two graduate students taking on the oligopoly of Yahoo, Excite, Alta Vista, etc??)

In an average class not long ago, 95 % of Woodford's students wore Lululemon, she says.

A Perth - based technology startup has struck a deal under which 10 million students in the US could be using its smartphone app.

The larger effort will now support 200 middle school STEM programs by 2020 and aim to reach 5 million students with free technology resources, teacher training, STEM curricula, and connectivity.

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

Digital display boards can allow advertisers to showcase daily specials at a restaurant or tell students what's happening on campus that day.

Promising students identified at University of the People are eligible for admission at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus.

NYU Launchpad came to fruition in March, after Rimalovski and others started hearing students grumble about balancing a startup with school.

He recalled that another student in his class shattered the record, in part by racing down the slide for life head - first, instead of the slower, safer method that everyone else used.

From Facebook to Google to Walmart, every huge company started with a crappy idea (a college student taking on Rupert Murdoch's Myspace??

We set up Student to give a voice to people like me who wanted to protest against the Vietnam War and the establishment.

For every paid membership, we give a free one to a low - income family, teacher, student, or veteran, because we really want everyone to have access, regardless of wealth.

The schools that would be taxed have at least 500 students and more than $ 500,000 in endowment per student.

Sutton described speaking to a student who served as an officer in Afghanistan.

He was actually the first African - American student to graduate from the University of Tulsa theater program.

«These Gen Zers have seen their parents struggle financially [due to the recession and student loan crisis], so parents are having conversations about finances, money and debt with kids earlier.

It became a hit with college students «who like to send... err... special photos to each other,» Swanson noted.

With $ 50,000 in student loans, a wife, a child and a baby on the way, something had to change.

The demographic best known for having unlimited information and student loan debt could be the smartest investing class yet.

-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Chinese students are increasingly turning to Asia as H - 1B visas for U.S. employment become hard to win.

Many — possibly most — students of monetary policy believe central bankers should avoid undue attention.

Lastly, Total finances innovative projects proposed by students through Team Total grants.

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

It's also possible that iPads may make inroads into school districts that don't issue their students laptops, but rather let them choose their own.

It is vital that every student is heard.

As her father lay dying, Fasold said, employees from Albuquerque broker Bio Care visited father and daughter, and made a heartfelt pitch: The generous gift of his body to science would benefit medical students, doctors and researchers.

He's proud of having achieved success with no degree and, instead of paying off student debt, he is now living a life his other 34 - year - old friends could only imagine.

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

In one of these studies, a group of students was instructed to think about an important final exam while another group was told to make a specific study plan with details of what they would do, where, and when.

«You don't stop being a student once you pick up your diploma anymore,» says Mickaël Scherrer.

All students work one day per week in real jobs at companies like American Express and JPMorgan Chase, with their earnings going to the school.

Rasool is a 25 - year - old freelance journalist and also a student in international relations at a university in Istanbul, who has worked as a translator and fixer for VICE and other media outlets, including Al Jazeera and Associated Press.

Students were given the options of either receiving a smaller cheque they could cash right away, or wait a couple of weeks for a larger cheque.

He has since contracted with a local private school to transport students from home to school in the morning and back in the afternoon.

For out - of - state students, the cost is even higher at $ 34,220.

To provide as much scheduling flexibility as possible, Asper students can take classes on one of three timetables: afternoons and evenings from Monday to Thursday, all day on Saturday and Sunday, or Saturday and Sunday mornings.

«They assure you... that no student has ever been eaten by a shark — at least not recently,» McRaven said.

In 2014 she was a year - eight student at Aylsham High School in Norfolk [U.K.], which specializes in business and enterprise.

Eighteen of the 34 universities and colleges that told the U.S. Department of Education that giving transgender students access to single - sex restrooms and facilities that correspond with their gender identity would be inconsistent with their religious tenets are controlled by the Southern Baptist Convention, according to public records obtained by both the Human Rights Campaign and the AP.

Unlike many undergraduate programs, students will walk away from these decentralized online courses with a portfolio of work they can show to potential employers.

Green and his students needed a different game plan.

The program also helps college seniors who are nearing graduation by introducing them to alumni and fellow students at networking roundtables.

Our overall evaluation scores are also often based on our students» performance on state tests.

As a Ph.D. student at the time, I was no exception.»

«We might assume that students who scored high on this scale might earn a higher income because they are more willing to be more demanding during critical junctures such as when negotiating salaries or raises,» the researchers wrote in the published study.