Sentences with phrase «terms of the number of school»

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«The term just refers to the quantity of information and the number of users,» notes David Soberman, the Canadian national chair of strategic marketing and a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

If you've been thinking of your mental horsepower solely in terms of high school report cards or a single number from an IQ test, you're probably selling yourself short.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

Didn't get a job until I was 21, didn't get, my license, move out of home and it really did a number on me, I was also picked on quite a lot in High School as I was over weight which I think affected me socially in terms of I have a minor case of social anxiety, it's not debilitating but I do notice it and it affects certain things.

In terms of the number of participants, football is the most popular high school sport for boys.

«The indecent haste with which some outstanding schools have rushed to apply for, and secure, academy status means that a number appear to have cut corners in terms of consultation with staff and trade unions.

The latest Statistics for Mission has revealed that the long - term pattern of decline in Church attendance has continued, except amongst school services, where numbers show an increase.

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Longer - term spending cuts The government is also reviewing all spending decisions and pilot schemes approved since the start of the year, including a number of school building and transport projects.

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«A number of the school workers that we surveyed said that they were regularly worrying about redundancies, disputes and staff sickness at least once a term.

Statistics show that the number of primary school pupils suspended or given fixed term exclusions for assaulting an adult increased by 25 per cent from 9,290 in 2012 - 1013 to 11,660 in 2013 - 14.

Interim teaching facilities give schools, colleges and local authorities the flexibility to increase school places to maintain the highest standards of teaching during major construction or refurbishment work or to meet a short - term surge in pupil numbers.

At least for EMOs, the prospects of long - term profitability make it possible to raise capital from venture investors or, in a smaller number of cases, like Edison Schools, the public markets.

A number of schools go to Dubai or South Africa in the winter months for cricket as the longer daylight hours mean there are no limited overs and players get more out of the trip in terms of training time.

In particular, a number of parents have complained that the cost of going abroad in the school holidays can be up to four times as much as during term time.

There has also been a moderate increase in the number of schools offering Mandarin Chinese as a language option, as it is «recognised as crucial to the UK's long - term competitiveness».

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

I calculate the number and share of FTC students attending different groupings of private schools, which have differential track records in terms of increasing students» rates of college enrollment.

In terms of reach, we know the number of schools involved in teaching school alliances is growing but that this varies quite significantly between local authorities, especially between rural and urban areas, and also by phase, with more than twice as many secondary schools involved as primary schools.

Of course, there will be challenges in some schools in terms of eating space availability, sufficient cooking equipment, the necessity to introduce additional lunch sittings to cope with the additional meal numbers, etcOf course, there will be challenges in some schools in terms of eating space availability, sufficient cooking equipment, the necessity to introduce additional lunch sittings to cope with the additional meal numbers, etcof eating space availability, sufficient cooking equipment, the necessity to introduce additional lunch sittings to cope with the additional meal numbers, etc..

Mike Kane, shadow schools minister, commented: «The number of pupils being taught in super-sized classes is skyrocketing while schools face the first real terms cuts to their budgets in a generation.

This includes: the role of MATs in the context of other intermediate structures operating between Whitehall and individual schools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mschools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mSchools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and managed.

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Marcus said: «While modular classroom construction lends itself to the tight timescales of school holidays, we have also completed a number of major construction projects at schools during term time.

If predicting pupil numbers wasn't difficult enough, the local authority then has to ensure suitable and appropriate accommodation is provided early enough for schools to set up over a summer holiday and be ready and open for the start of term in summer.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

What was intended was to establish a measurement system, if innovation can be measured in purely quantitative terms, through a representative sample of Spanish schools, both in number and geographically speaking, that allowed us to enter their centers, be with them, live with them, learn from them, and see the implementation of their projects within the innovation.

If you offer people better schools — schools that you can prove are better, not just assert are better, and not just in terms of achievement but across a number of domains that are important for kids — and if they're accessible and affordable, people will send their children to them.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

«The jurisdictions who are continuing with that trial have committed to work closely with officials in terms of technological issues to make sure any and all issues are resolved to their satisfaction so the small number of schools participating in the trial can have absolute confidence that it will work and be successful this year.»

Businesses have earning reports and stock prices as measures of success; schools seeking multiple purposes — see above — are expected to show immediate, midterm, and long - term results, many of whichare hardly reducible to numbers.

In the long term, this project could help towards reducing the number of children infected with whipworms in less developed parts of the world and help get them back to school.»

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: «Mainstream schools have to make # 3 billion in efficiency savings by 2019 - 20 against a background of growing pupil numbers and a real - terms reduction in funding per pupil.

A sum of between 14 - 19 would indicate that a limited number of mobile laptop carts and handheld kits would be a choice to consider as an entry - level solution, for the school might not be ready for a large - scale solution in terms of either cost or commitment.

If implicated, the proposal would re-weight each school's GCSE scores according to the number of terms students spent there, which according to the study, would paint a drastically different picture.

The average amount of money spent per pupil by U.S. public schools has more than doubled in real terms since 1970, and the number of pupils per employed teacher has declined from 22 to 15.

But experts say Indiana's mandate may be the most sweeping in the nation, both in terms of the numbers of grades it includes and the extent to which results are used to require summer - school...

For schools, they have found that there can be a number of benefits for lockdown facilities, not just in terms of emergency situations, but for providing additional protection for the children and staff at the school, or using lockdown outside of hours in order to ensure that the building is safe and on site assets are protected around the clock.

Reducing class size is a generally popular idea, but a number of researchers have concluded that increasing teacher salaries may be a better long - term strategy for school improvement.

A number of speakers on the panel agreed that while quality education does have an impact on the future of the Northern Powerhouse, schools need to place a greater emphasis on knowledge - based education to be able to contribute to long - term productivity and economic development.

A number of national organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - free terms.

That's the theory behind «deeper learning,» a broad term encompassing the goals of an increasing number of U.S. schools and school systems.

The system's long - term success will require both continued learning and growth in the number of schools families perceive to be high - quality options.

Common challenges create opportunities for collaborative solutions which is why an increasing number of employers — including schools — are looking to learn from each other in terms of innovative approaches to hiring.

We see a wide disparity between the states in terms of the number of students per nurse, Amy Garcia, a registered nurse and executive director of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) told Education World.

At one school 85 % of students reported that they disliked maths as a subject at the start of a term; that number went down to 15 % at the end of the term after using Maths Pathway.

Passed by Congress in 1996, District of Columbia charter schools have neared parity with the district in terms of the number of students educated.