Sentences with phrase «than any college training»

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Indeed, a study from the 1960s study found that undeclared majors were «more likely to emphasize intellectual development as a goal of college» than they were vocational training.

Teach Away's clients — education ministries, colleges, and other organizations that provide ESL training — are situated in more than 50 countries around the world, including the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

The introduction of courses at the undergraduate level in colleges and seminaries, the promotion of graduate seminars, together with more than a decade of specialized training for clergy sponsored by the Foundation, reinforce this experience of ours by adding to the experience of others.

By 1997, he expects that more than 100,000 citizens will be serving their country, receiving education and training benefits in return, and hundreds of thousands more will be doing vital community work, able now to afford the time for such satisfactions because the need to repay their college loans will no longer «block their way.»

And this way of training while already in the ministry, wherein men «could [both] learn and practice every day... would be more advantageous than all the colleges and Biblical institutes in the land.

«This event was valuable not only for our [athletic training] students, who were able to interact with a different than usual target group, but also for the attending children and parents, who gained valuable information regarding safe sport participation and child exercise recommendations,» states Jan Kretzschmar, Director of Exercise Science at King's College.

Kesem provides training, support and leadership development to more than 4,500 passionate college student leaders from coast - to - coast who volunteer year - round to create, manage and run Camp Kesem's life - changing programs in their communities.

Overall 320 athletic trainers attended the event including more than 40 athletic training students from the various approved athletic training education programs at universities and colleges from across the Commonwealth.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

Led by the efforts of Linda, John and Jackie Romano and Rob Esche, more than $ 100,000 was also raised recently to support the clinic's important work of providing free legal services to Oneida County veterans and their families, training local attorneys, and educating the next generation of veterans advocates at the College of Law.

But Massachusetts's colleges and universities have had an eye on industry for more than a decade, Griesemer says, citing the addition of bioinformatics to computer science programs and clinical trials training to medical school curriculums as early examples.

Merck, in a partnership with the United Negro College Fund, awards at least 37 scholarships a year to African - American researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels; to date, the program has trained more than 370 scientists.

Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.

If colleges want to effectively change their campus culture regarding rape, they should also focus on self - defense training for women rather than just improving their policies and training bystanders to intervene, according to an Appalachian State University professor who has been researching the women's self - defense movement since 1993.

MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and 700 residents in six colleges (Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy), and has nearly 13,000 employees, including approximately 1,500 faculty members.

Dr. Drew Gholson, Texas Well Owner Network program coordinator and AgriLife Extension program specialist in soil and crop sciences, College Station, said with more than a million private water wells in the state, education and training are essential for ensuring public health and safety.

According to an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) survey of more than 3,000 fitness professionals worldwide, body weight training is predicted to be the next big thing.

Over the last 15 years he has trained more than 700 high school, college and professional athletes from nearly 20 different sports.

An honors graduate of Yale University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she has more than ten years of experience practicing primary care, directing a medical weight - loss program, and teaching doctors - in - training at Bellevue Hospital Center in NYC.

A 1996 study from Baylor College of Medicine backed this up, reporting that subjects who followed a high intensity interval training workout on a stationary cycle burned significantly more calories during the 24 hours following the workout than those who cycled at a moderate steady - state intensity.

After six weeks of autoregulated strength training, Division 1 college football players increased their bench and squat strength more than with linear periodization.

I'm almost as strong as I was in college (when I was weight training) 30 years ago, and definitely I feel healthier than I ever have in my life.

Now before you think that I am just adjusting to college training... I am 100 % truthful when I say that my high school training was much more intense and difficult than this.

Bill asks: About eight months ago (before I became a listener) I purchased Ellington Darden's «New High Intensity Training,» As a result of applying this approach, I have become stronger, at 48 - years - old, than at any other time in my life (including while playing college football).

About Site - Animal Behavior College is an animal career training school that offers dog training, veterinary assistant, dog grooming and cat training certifications.There is more to good pet hygiene than bathing them.

b. My data that show St. Petersburg College's undergraduate teacher training program is doing at least as well as, and probably somewhat better than, other undergraduate teacher training programs in Florida.

Faced with an apparent record turnover among New York City principals, the city's public schools have joined with Bank Street College of Education to establish a center for training more than 200 novice school leaders.

The donation, which is contingent on being matched dollar - for - dollar by other donors, will help fund Teach For America's recruitment of members on more than 200 college campuses as well as its eight - week teacher - training program.

Employers in the United States have long struggled to fill certain jobs — particularly technician - level jobs that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less time to complete than a four - year college degree program.

The survey, which revealed FE colleges are slightly more optimistic about their future than independent training providers, showed a significant disparity between the level of confidence among front - line staff compared to their senior colleagues.

More teacher colleges are incorporating technology education directly into math and science courses, rather than offering such training separately.

Districts could provide these individuals — who are more likely to stay in the local community than those trained or raised elsewhere — with incentives, such as training opportunities and financial support to pursue teaching licensure in college - access courses.

Like some college education departments, Teach for America's Institute has suffered from a lack of subject - specific training and from short student - teaching stints with much smaller class sizes than teachers are apt to encounter in the real world.

Most of the required reading in college and workforce training programs is informational in structure and challenging in content; postsecondary education programs typically provide students with both a higher volume of such reading than is generally required in K - 12 schools and comparatively little scaffolding.

This prize is more than worth the effort required to change the training culture in our schools and colleges.

«Schools and colleges need a period of stability, and opportunities for teachers and leaders to take part in professional development which helps them improve how they work rather than just training to deliver the next new policy.

The federal government's largest investment in postsecondary education and training is through the federal Pell Grant program, which supplies more than $ 6 billion to help needy students pay for college tuition.

Richard Stockton College's Southern Regional Institute and Educational Technology Training Center has done more than 100 workshops in 40 area school districts this year.

Mr Wormald with Sinead O'Sullivan, director of programme delivery at the National College for Teaching and Leadership — which is responsible for teacher training — said on more than 12 occasions to the committee that the government's School Direct scheme, in which schools recruit trainee teachers, was the answer to recruitment problems.

And a teacher's training includes more clinical practice than many college programs.

Many colleges also refused to provide course syllabi, limiting the number of schools the council could rank to fewer than half the roughly 1,450 institutions of higher education that have teacher - training programs.

«Teachers deserve better support and better training than teachers» colleges today provide, and school districts should be able to make well - informed hiring choices,» he said.

Broward College established their competency - based Accelerated IT Training Program more than three years ago, and will be joining us to talk about everything they've learned in that time.

Students older than 16 in full - time education or training can buy subsidised bus tickets to colleges and sixth - forms for up to # 400, unless they are eligible for free school meals.

Less than half of counselors (43 %), for example, indicated that they have sufficient knowledge and training on «College Affordability Planning,» which includes ways to provide information about college costs, financing, financial aid and scholaCollege Affordability Planning,» which includes ways to provide information about college costs, financing, financial aid and scholacollege costs, financing, financial aid and scholarships.

Today, more than a quarter of the instructors are from Teach for America, a national teacher training program that recruits college graduates from around the U.S.

When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $ 15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.

Over the next couple of years, Los Angeles will see an influx of more than 700 teachers from Teach for America, a non-profit that recruits college graduates, trains them, and places them in public schools across the country.