Sentences with phrase «students over a number of years»

Since then, due in large part to the availability of new data sources that link and track teachers and students over a number of years, researchers have been able to estimate the overall contribution of teachers to student learning.

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Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

A number of plan sponsors have moved to cover medical cannabis costs over the years, Zaid noted, including the University of Waterloo's student union, the Arthritis Society, Loblaw Companies Ltd., the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Labourers» International Union of North America.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

According to the CFPB report citing the New York Federal Reserve, the number of senior student loan debtors over the age of 60 has quadrupled over the past ten years.

The government committed a total of NZ$ 10 million (roughly C$ 9.45 million) over 5 years to increase the number of students learning these languages.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

It's asked cities to provide a list of universities and community colleges with «relevant degrees» plus the number of students to graduate with those degrees over the past three years.

You've probably heard dour statistics about rising tuition costs and rising student debt, which has exploded to more than $ 1.2 trillion.9 At the same time, there has been a decline in the number of pre-retirees saving for retirement — at least according to our RISE surveys over the past two years.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

These schools represent approximately 55 % of the total number of schools in our district, with an estimated combined population of over 100,000 students, and the free meals will become available when our school year begins a week from today.

«The problem with the payment of the allowance is that apart from the huge cost implication for the national budget, it also compels governments over the years to scale down the number of students entering into the college of education.»

The school has also not been able to raise the standard of teaching and learning over a number of years, which has left up to about 80 percent of second and third - year students unable to properly...

The policy in brief is giving students financial support upfront so that they can pay for their living costs while at university rather than giving them money to pay back a loan they can pay back over a number of years.

With a record - breaking number of over 470,0001 students being accepted into UK universities and colleges this year, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is issuing a five step guide to remind students what they should be doing to look after their belongings.

The number of candidates who wrote the 2015 BECE represented an increase of 15,084 over last year's figure of 422,946 final - year junior high school (JHS) students who registered for the examination.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

But the sheer number of students I've met over the years who've run into significant snags with these kinds of studies suggests that you do not want your academic future hinging on one of these kinds of projects.

The findings are the result of a huge and challenging field effort: over a three - year period, local students and technicians spent several weeks every month at each site to measure each tree's woody growth rate and the number of small roots that had grown.

16,200 The number of students researchers surveyed, over the course of 10 years, about their math skills.

Cuts the number of National Science Foundation grants by over 11,000 over the next 10 years, eliminating support for over 13,000 researchers, students and teachers in 2014 alone.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

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Over the last 25 years, the number of foreign students at German universities has quadrupled.

Atti Emecz, EPSRC's director for communications, information and strategy, estimates a more realistic possibility is a 20 % fall in the total number of Ph.D. students his organization would fund over the next 5 years.

«Over the last 7 years, we have seen a doubling in numbers of project students, without any strategic intent,» Emecz concedes.

Every year, the EPSRC would estimate the number of students enrolled in each department and deposit approximately # 11,000 to the account for each student, an increase of 10 % over the quota system allowance.

While the number of graduate students supported by research grants has been higher than the number supported on training grants since the early 1980s, the gap steadily widened as NIH's research budget grew — then shot up in the early 2000s when NIH's budget doubled over 5 years (see graph below).

First, the number of graduate students and postdocs supported by fellowships has remained essentially constant over the past 30 years as the number supported on research grants increased rapidly.

A survey of U.K. professional doctorate programs conducted last year by Stuart Powell and Elizabeth Long of the University of Hertfordshire counted approximately 7000 students registered in professional doctoral programmes, which is just over 1 % of the total number U.K. postgraduate students.

Over the years I've encountered a number of students who could do «advanced» poses on their very first day of a yoga class.

A few agreed to reduce the number of not - yet - proficient students by 50 percent over the next six years, but most developed their own twist on «annual measurable objectives.»

The number of students attending a cyber charter has steadily increased over the past five years, and this indicated that we needed to do a better job.

Over the years of doing this project, the students gain in quite a number of different ways.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

There is also evidence that the number of university applicants identifying teaching as their first preference has been quite stable over recent years, suggesting that a growing number of students are entering teaching after failing to obtain a place in their course of first choice.

While the narratives hopefully resonate as true, both accounts are based on a collection of students observed over a number of years rather than one particular student.

Australian students receive the highest number of compulsory instructional hours (11 000 hours over 11 years) during their primary and lower secondary education, while students in Latvia receive the lowest (5976 hours over nine years).

Over the years, I've also heard a good number of teachers talk about how they don't like to get any information from former teachers about incoming students.

Leeds City College has a strong relationship with South Leeds Academy and has worked closely with staff and students over the years to deliver a number of student events.

Moreover, the number of low - income students receiving subsidized breakfasts rose 12.7 percent over last year.

A study of 700 students from 11 school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

He said: «Our sixth form has expanded significantly over the past six years so we needed more space to accommodate the growing number of students.

Over the first half of the year, a number of Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, students, and alumni were recognized for their hard work and achievements with awards and fellowships.

A 1992 study of 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

Although the majority of students in college today are 18 - 25 years old, the number of older students is on the rise: today, 38 % of undergraduates are over 25 years old.

Over the past 25 years, the number of students with disabilities has increased, and new categories of disability have been created.