Sentences with phrase «surveyed said funding»
Financial resources were highlighted as a potential barrier to tablet adoption — 90 per cent of the schools surveyed said funding and budget allocations restricted tablet use.
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Right now, 49 % of Canadians say they lack investing knowledge, according to an Investor Education Fund survey.
Meanwhile, more and more fund managers do not see benefits of investing in U.K. equities, the survey said.
To that point, 92 percent of the 3,500 - plus readers who had taken our survey as of Dec. 4 said they would not roll over their 401 (k) funds into a company pension plan.
So says a massive survey of Americans undertaken by billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones II
PwC's «Wearable Future Report» showed 46 percent of those surveyed said their employer should fund wearable technology, instead of requiring them to provide their own devices.
Despite the exemptions, nearly two - thirds of the 40 survey respondents, including economists, fund managers and strategists, see the president's trade policies as negative for overall economic growth, with 23 percent saying it's too soon to tell.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, meanwhile, found that the percentage of respondents who said corporates could and should take on more leverage was falling.
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch note out Tuesday said that according to its global equity fund manager survey, equity investors are asking companies to strengthen their balance sheets after «recent record volumes of re-leveraging transactions.»
Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategists in Europe released results of a global survey of 66 fund managers, who said the immediate reaction of building U.S. trade tensions would be lower stocks and a lower dollar.
A March survey of 500 institutional investors showed that 48 percent planned to increase their allocation to venture capital and private equity, while 28 percent said they would invest more in hedge funds, according to the investment firm Commonfund.
A narrow majority of defined - contribution - plan advisers and consultants say managed accounts provide less benefit to participants than target - date funds, according to a survey by Pacific Investment Management Co..
Finally, the majority of survey respondents said they would use the funds offered by an employer to make extra student loan payments rather than simply cover a portion of their monthly bills.
Financial professionals are still pushing accumulation strategies when older clients are most worried about outliving their funds, survey says.
In January's Global Fund Manager Survey, 54 % of managers said they thought equities and bonds are overvalued.
Ten Years Post-Financial Crisis and Americans Say it Had No Impact, According to Hartford Funds Survey Yet Many Don't Trust the Stock Market, Changed their Spending Habits, and Plan to Work Longer than Anticipated
At least, that's what 96 % of Wall Street economists, analysts, and fund managers said when surveyed about the possibility of a December rate hike.
According to the Federal Reserve of New York 2016 Credit Survey: Report on Startup Firms, 70 % of young businesses say they need funding to grow.
The Church Urban Fund said more must be done to help hard - pressed Britons as figures from its food survey suggest almost a million adults used a food bank last year.
At the appropriate time, and with my best smile, I raised my hand and said something like this: «I appreciate the funding that allows us to survey our churches, and I think it is helpful to use similar questions and metrics for better research.
Miller said his research on global Pentecostalism, done before he knew of the Pew study, was bolstered by the 10 - nation survey funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.
Patti Rundall, policy director of the campaign group Baby Milk Action, said that the results of the survey were «really disappointing» but emphasised that hundreds of paediatricians had voted in the consultation to reject any funding by FMCs.
She criticised the members» survey, saying, «It was a very confusing and badly designed survey, the wording of which was not consulted on and which gave the very biased impression that «due diligence» would avoid the possibility of accepting inappropriate funding.
A BBC survey last month found widespread disillusionment among doctors, with 34 per cent of GPs and 11 per cent of hospital doctors wanting to scrap the programme and just two per cent and three per cent respectively saying it was a good use of NHS funds.
Nearly three - quarters of those surveyed — 72 percent — say the state should invest more and 64 percent said New York City should provide more funding for mass transit.
Commenting on Ofsted's survey report Pupil Premium: How schools are spending the funding successfully to maximise achievement, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:
He said a cannabis survey was being conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under the European Union (EU) funded project in collaboration with the Nigerian Government and technical support from the Nigerian Air Force.
A judge is blocking the Village of Owego's taxpayer - funded poll on whether local residents favor abolishing their police force, saying the survey is likely an «improper and unlawful» non-binding referendum under state law.
Paul Burstow said that as a minister he commissioned the first ever end of life care experience survey per patient funding was important in this respect, as towards the end of life people's decisions change so flexibility in the system is crucial.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he didn't preapprove a city - funded program that gives criminal suspects $ 15 Dunkin' Donuts gift cards for taking a survey about their courtroom experiences.
Straphangers say they want city to pitch in funds for MTA repairs, new Independent Democratic Conference survey finds
Straphangers say they want city to pitch in funds for MTA repairs, new Independent Democratic Conference survey finds IDC introduces legislation to have city match state's commitment to fund phase 1 of MTA's Subway Action Plan Albany, NY — A -LSB-...]
«In particular, facilities such as the lab in Ray Brook which collect information for the Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation could close if EPA shifts the focus of the programs and grants that have provided an essential funding stream,» she said.
«Brian wouldn't have much hope of going to [the National Science Foundation] or [the U.S. Geological Survey] to get funding for these projects,» Brune says.
Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.
«The NASA - funded Catalina Sky Survey, which has made the majority of NEO discoveries since its inception in 2004, is getting an upgrade,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near - Earth Objects Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Funding issues also hamper mobility, say survey respondents, most of whom were aged between 26 and 35 years and were drawn from disciplines such as math, physics, and biology.
The algorithm then sets what coordinates are surveyed by which UAVs, and determines a plan for them so that it also covers as much of the area as possible without depleting the battery life,» said Marjorie Darrah, whose project is funded by the Army Research Laboratory.
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
«This year's funding impact survey suggests these two increases [pensions and national insurance] will cost the average sixth form college an additional # 189,932 per annum,» the report says.
In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.
Habits by Outdoor Activity Workers A recent national sun protection survey by the Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund, investigating sun protection habits in the UK, reveals that a quarter of those who work outdoors with children admit to a child having sunburn whilst in their care, and a worrying 40 per cent say children still turn up to outdoor sessions without any sun protection whatsoever.
Other 2015 State of Our Schools Survey findings included: - 79 per cent of principals surveyed said they did not have enough funding for the needs of children with disability at their school.
Richard Thomas, the executive director of secondary headteacher associations in Essex and Suffolk and organiser of the surveys, said that post-16 funding for secondary schools had been slashed by up to a fifth since 2010.
In our survey, CMO leaders said that uncertainty about continued philanthropic funding is second only to limited access to facilities as their most significant barrier to scale.
A survey conducted by the union found that 64 per cent of schools do not have access to an on site councillor, with three quarters saying that a lack of funding was a key barrier.
More than half the California school districts surveyed by an education advocacy group said they've spent all or most of the funds set aside to implement Common Core State Standards, but still have more to do to prepare for the new academic standards.
When asked whether they support «more government funding for public schools,» 63 percent of those surveyed said they did, but when asked whether «local taxes to fund public schools in your district should increase,» only 29 percent favored the idea.
The Times article reported that a USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences / Los Angeles Times Frequency Questionnaire released last week showed that 61 percent of those surveyed said they would pay higher taxes to boost school funding.