Sentences with phrase «than an advanced degree»

And really, in some jobs training is as important or more so than an advanced degree.

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It's more common for tech startup leaders to hold an advanced degree in engineering than an MBA.

The result: Three times as many had advanced degrees in engineering than had an MBA.

Without a doubt, the best business leaders are smart, often with advanced business degrees, a great pedigree and more certifications than a business card can hold.

Wadhwa, who like Sankhla was born in India, said it took him less than 18 months to get his own green card in the 1980s, because he was highly skilled, had advanced degrees, and there was less competition at that time.

In the recent advancing half - cycle, the speculation intentionally provoked by zero - interest rate policy forced us to elevate the priority of market internals to a far greater degree than was required during the tech and mortgage bubbles.

More than 70 % of Mr. Turner's staff have advanced degrees in accounting, law, finance, public policy or other areas relevant to the research Glass Lewis conducts.

So if you have a long - term goal such as saving for college expenses, perhaps an advanced degree or even something personal like a family reunion or wedding, opening an account and stashing money in it will earn you more than having it sit in a non interest yielding place.

Statistically LDS Women are more educated than their Christian counterparts holding more advanced degrees.

Murray draws on those studies, but in Coming Apart, Fishtown, like Belmont, is shorthand for a statistical cohort: people with blue - collar or low - level office jobs and no academic degree more advanced than a high - school diploma.

Does not this suggest that, by using the degree of complexity as a guide, we may advance very much more surely than by following any other lead as we seek to penetrate to the truth of the world and to assess, in terms of absolute values, the relative importance, the place, of all things?

The Waldorf School of Garden City has more than 47 passionate educators, most with advanced degrees in their core field.

We have a version of this in the masters entry programs in nursing that prepares those with bachelor's degrees (but no nursing degree) for advanced nursing practice in three years rather than the nursing - plus - two of the regular masters programs.

The EducateNY program will help millions of New Yorkers earn advanced degrees and start investing in our economy rather than paying off loans for decades.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

Few people — including those seeking advanced degrees — relish being told they're wrong, that things could be better, that if they had done something differently it would have worked, rather than imploding into a nasty greenish muck.

Early research opportunities are critical, many science educators believe: A 2007 study found that undergraduates who participate in laboratory research are significantly more likely to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering than those who don't get hands - on research experience.

Science journalism is a highly competitive field, but formal training, while a good idea, isn't essential, and you don't have to have an advanced degree: You can succeed with little more than talent, audacity, and a bachelor's degree.

Other universities have eyed its enviable 20 - year record — more than 900 graduates who have gone on to earn 423 advanced science degrees and 107 medical degrees — and wondered what it would take to replicate that success on their campuses.

According to the latest U.S. Survey of Earned Doctorates, the proportion of new Ph.D. graduates who come from families where neither parent has earned more than a high school degree has fallen from about 31 % in 1992 to just under 20 % in 2012, while the proportion of graduates from families with at least one parent with an advanced degree has climbed; it was about 33 % in 1992, and it is now above 40 %.

«One possible explanation for this finding is that African - Americans with relatively high GPAs are more motivated and determined than whites to attend college and obtain an advanced degree.»

Because she would receive more pay as a laboratory employee than as a graduate student, she never pursued an advanced degree, instead taking a succession of technician jobs in academic laboratories (including Baltimore's) and the biotech industry.

Now researchers have reported that an advanced degree of coronary atherosclerosis is more common in cigarette smokers than in nonsmokers, and that it increases with the amount of smoking.»

Contract nurses were significantly younger than the «bianzhi» nurses, less likely to be married and have children, had less registered nurse work experience, were less likely to have an advanced nursing degree, and more likely to be male, the study found.

The University of London introduced the DSc in 1860, but as an advanced study course, following on directly from the BSc, rather than a research degree.

These were, however, very advanced degrees, rather than research - training degrees at the PhD level — Harold Jeffreys said that getting a Cambridge ScD was «more or less equivalent to being proposed for the Royal Society».

Since 1963, IRRI has enabled more than 100 Vietnamese scholars to gain advanced degrees in rice science.

Supporting these efforts are the Institute's more than 300 employees from numerous countries around the world — half of whom hold advanced degrees at the Ph.D. or M.D. level.

«Pilates requires no degree of flexibility or fitness, as a good instructor will be able to teach beginners through to advanced in the one class by modifying moves individually, rather than just teaching at the front of the class,» Menezes says.

In that case, «controlled» cheating can be used by an experienced and wise athlete to subject his body to heavier loading than it's normally accustomed to - in fact, almost all advanced bodybuilders do this to some degree - but it's nothing magical.

But if you do not have the time or the money to devote to an advanced degree it is possible to train in less than a year to work as a health coach.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

Teachers who received RIF notices were less likely to hold an advanced degree and their salaries were approximately $ 15,000 lower than those of teachers who did not receive layoff notices.

The fact that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective in the classroom, on average, than their colleagues without advanced degrees is one of the most consistent findings in education research.

And unlike some advanced degrees, the remuneration that awaits you at the end of this process is sometimes less than ideal (and sometimes less than you made before you started the program),» said James Stiles, associate dean for degree programs.

According to the Urban Institute's Matthew Chingos, «the fact that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective in the classroom, on average, than their colleagues without advanced degrees is one of the most consistent findings in education research.»

Across the country, salaries generally start low — much lower than for other professionals — although there are boosts for advanced degrees and other credentials.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

And so I think telling the students more about what is in the Advanced Maths course — that it is more than just the same thing over and over again — broadens their mathematical thinking and having that extra two years of mathematical thinking, and different maths, certainly plays an important part if they're doing a maths - based degree at university.

Where microcredentials pertain to teachers rather than students, I think the concept is an outstanding way to do a number of things in the area of professional development: 1) recognize professional learning milestones to inspire continuous improvement; 2) move away from a one - size - fits - all (and oft debunked) approach to salary schedules, which typically depend exclusively on time served and postsecondary attainment; 3) move towards recognition of skill development on an a la carte basis rather than solely as part of an advanced degree program; and 4) generate more personalized and self - paced professional learning opportunities.

Player found that rural teachers were significantly less likely than their non-rural peers to have earned an advanced degree.

The percentage of teachers with a master's degree or higher more than doubled during this period, with the typical teacher now having an advanced degree.

The salary gap between experienced teachers with advanced degrees and other similarly educated college graduates is now more than $ 32,000.

Second, female elementary teachers reported being more likely to stay than male counterparts, except that teachers with a masters or advanced degree leaned toward leaving their present school.

Union teachers are 16 percentage - points more likely to have a master's or other advanced degree than nonunion teachers.

And the advanced degree crack is misguided, as not all teachers have them, and many of them that do could have learned more about how to teach kids by driving a cab than by going to a school of education.

«And now I have the North Carolina legislature saying that my master's degree in the field of education is not worth more than a bachelor's degree,» said Lowe of lawmakers» recent move to strip teachers of the roughly 10 percent pay increase that is afforded to those with advanced degrees, going forward.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

And teachers without advanced degrees who simply take extra coursework in their areas of specialty prove no more effective in the classroom than those who don't.

Pumpian served as the executive director of the City Heights Educational Collaborative where he assumed superintendent - level responsibilities over the educational programs of 5,000 students, professional development for their 300 + teachers, and a comprehensive professional development school that annually involved more than 125,000 hours of SDSU faculty and student credential and advanced degree teaching, research, and practical activities.