Whether you're picking up a professional qualification, or progressing with your academic study, part -
time study offers a viable alternative for those who can't commit to full - time postgraduate courses.
Part -
time study offers a risk - free approach to gaining new skills, and doesn't require you to take a break from paid work.
Not exact matches
Many universities now
offer flexible and part -
time study so it's realistic to fit education around full -
time working.
But a 2014
study from Daniel Austin, a bankruptcy attorney and, at the
time, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law,
offers some of the most in - depth research to date.
«It's a farce to claim to be
offering «free college» to employees when what's being
offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full
time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy
studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.
In a Financial
Times article by Stefan Stern, Mr. Stern
offers the conclusions of a
study by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones.
The
study also found that though less than half of businesses found success in their first daily deal
offer, more than three - quarters of businesses reported profitable promotions by the
time they had run seven or more deals.
«Credit unions continue to provide the best deals,
offering over 10
times more interest on checking accounts than regional banks, as well as 573 % higher rates on savings accounts than national banks,» WalletHub says in an emailed summary of the
study.
Time and
study — and a little creativity in how we process these results —
offer the hope that we can master what so many investors have found vexing.
The church also partners with a local rabbi from
time to
time for conversation around Hebrew Scripture and
offers a variety of Bible
study / book club options.
Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the
time which
offered a liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both
studied and did useful work.
My hopes for the church interacting in schools would be more along the lines of policy (getting teenage girls to cover up),
offering some after - school programs (food, clothing,
study help, activities), allowing for prayer in schools, Bible reading
time, allowing religion to be discussed among the students.
The computer teacher is free to
offer a short prayer at the beginning of class, but ought not spend half the
time on a
study of the Torah when the students should be learning Microsoft Excel.
This can shed light on a specific passage of Scripture and
offer great insight, truth and perspective to your
times of
study.
Some work has been done in India, courses have been
offered in religions other than Buddhism in Ceylon, there was a chair of comparative religions for a
time in Turkey, but in general the scholars of Asia have not turned to a
study of religions other than their own.
These texts and
studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they
offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the
time of the early church.
What is vital to our
study is that from the
time of Moses onward the people felt themselves to be in a particular relationship to their God.2 This relationship centers in a covenant voluntarily initiated by God,
offering Yahweh's protection and support in return for obedience to his will and law.
New
study shows father - inclusive perinatal classes improve births New research has shown that Family Foundations — the brief series of classes for first -
time parents
offered in the UK by the Fatherhood Institute — improves birth outcomes as well as easing the transition to parenthood.
The
study's authors
offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four
times higher than in the most recent
study of female high school soccer players.
In the years following, Sunbridge College's
offerings grew, eventually encompassing numerous full - and part -
time certificate and degree programs and courses in Waldorf Teacher Education, Biography and Social Art, Liberal
Studies, Remedial Education (now the Association for a Healing Education), Waldorf Administration and Community Development, Applied Arts (now the Fiber Craft Studio) and other affiliated fields.
Daniel's New York
Times op - ed on her
study's findings, «A Hidden Cost to Giving Kids Their Vegetables,» generated a lot of discussion both on this blog and on the
Times website, and within a few days Daniel contacted me and kindly
offered to be interviewed here on TLT.
And researchers in Canada and Belarus also finished a comprehensive
study, for the first
time controlling for education and socio - economic factors by dividing mothers in Belarus into two groups: one in which mothers were encouraged to breastfeed by their care providers and one in which no additional encouragement was
offered.
Many U.S. high schools don't
offer athletic training services, and few employ full -
time athletic trainers, according to a new
study.
But there's also a secondary benefit: If you find out that your child is worried about basketball tryouts or an upcoming science test, you can be sensitive to that area and
offer more encouragement — and devote more
time to helping him practice or
study.
Consider
offering a pacifier at nap
time and bedtime — Although the mechanism is yet unclear,
studies have reported a protective effect of pacifiers on the incidence of SIDS.3, 7,32 The protective effect persists throughout the sleep period, even if the pacifier falls out of the infant's mouth.
This
study sought to benefit women in the transition to motherhood by enhancing the postnatal teaching
offered to first -
time mothers in hospital following childbirth.
As noted above, included
studies were very varied in setting, population group
studied, content,
timing and intensity of the intervention, whether it was proactively
offered to women or available only if they asked for it, the standard care available, staff training programmes, and the type and
timing of the outcomes measured.
Citizens Budget Commission Director of State
Studies David Friedfel shared how he prepares for the release of the budget, reminisced about his
time with the Assembly Ways & Means Committee and
offered advice to ordinary New Yorkers who want to understand the governor's proposal.
These efficiency
studies offer a glimpse into Hayes's approach to reforming Ulster County government and achieving cost savings via shared services in a
time of what the candidate calls «economic emergency.»
Since Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy sent NYPA President Gil Quiniones a letter
offering up space on the
Times Union Center parking garage roof for solar panels, the authority has called for additional
studies «to better evaluate renewable energy options for the project.»
Some
time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed — an enormous evolutionary
study offers clues about its appearance
In a 2012
study offering evolutionary perspectives on the behavior, researchers noted: «Far more
time is spent in engaging in cooperation, or at least peaceful coexistence, than spent in engaging in violence.»
Yet in this latest
study of Welsh streams, scientists demonstrate for the first
time that trees
offer much more than just a cooling influence.
New
studies suggest placing orders before it's
time to eat: By
offering an alternative to impulse purchases, advance ordering could promote healthy behaviors.»
«Our
study, for the first
time,
offers a potential way of preventing allergies by using a molecule that redirects the immune response away from the allergic response,» says lead author Dr. Christine McCusker, allergist at the Montreal Children's Hospital and researcher at the RI - MUHC.
They sought to determine whether parents involved in the
study (mostly mothers) shaped their children's later behavior by
offering food to make them feel better when they were upset (emotional feeding), and whether parents whose children were easily soothed by food (those who calmed when given food) were more likely to
offer them more food for comfort at a subsequent
time.
PubMed Central asks journals to contribute their articles voluntarily as soon as possible after publicationat most after a yeargiving the journals
time to
offer exclusive access to make a profit (
studies have shown that the demand for research papers decreases sharply after only a few months).
Planned as larger and
offering images many
times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope, the HDST could be used to
study relatively near Earthlike planets for signs of life.
«My
study indicates that the tendency to cheat correlates strongly with the absence of a full
time mother in the home...» To substantiate his argument, Freeman
offers the anecdotal evidence that «two pre-medical students who have mothers with jobs outside the home unhesitatingly said that it is right for physicians to bill Medicare (public health insurance) for patients who do not exist».
Roberts said that «the presence of bone - borings provides a CSI - like opportunity to
study the skeleton and reconstruct the
timing of death and burial, and
offers rare evidence of ancient insects and complex food webs during the age of the dinosaurs.»
While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
offered a tolerable daily intake — TDI — of 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight each day, new
studies suggest that we are exposed to at least eight
times that amount every day, said Vanamala, who is also a faculty member at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
The
study offers new insight into the mysterious death of one of paleoanthropology's most iconic individuals, and the scientists involved say it may give clues to how much
time her species, Australopithecus afarensis, still spent in the trees.
The findings from the wildfire
study offer a new clue as to how naturally occurring charcoal can remain stable for long periods of
time, Masiello said.
Previous
studies showed that cognitive remediation — or training programs to reverse cognitive declines,
offer potential benefits for people with MS.. But, to ensure maximum benefit, many of these programs require in - person treatment sessions in an outpatient setting multiple
times a week for at least an hour.
The courses that focus on careers run for 3 days and do not include the range of case
studies that the longer courses
offer, leaving more
time for career - related activities and self - analysis.
She found herself missing acting during her Ph.D.
studies, though, so she dialed back her research to 4 days a week and devoted the extra
time to acting jobs, including taking part in police training skits, coaching improv teams, and
offering improv workshops to professional groups.
The research
offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of
time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the
study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.
Offer's
study uses a subsample from the 500 Family Study, consisting of 402 mothers and 291 fathers in dual - earner families who completed a survey and a time diary that collects information about the content and context of individuals» daily experiences, as well as the emotions associated with them, in the course of a
study uses a subsample from the 500 Family
Study, consisting of 402 mothers and 291 fathers in dual - earner families who completed a survey and a time diary that collects information about the content and context of individuals» daily experiences, as well as the emotions associated with them, in the course of a
Study, consisting of 402 mothers and 291 fathers in dual - earner families who completed a survey and a
time diary that collects information about the content and context of individuals» daily experiences, as well as the emotions associated with them, in the course of a week.
Another significant finding is that the
study suggests the additional layer of separation from identity,
offered by a throwaway account, provides a level of security at which victims are willing to disclose their abuse for the very first
time in their life.
The
study offers impressive new evidence that supports some old theories while setting others to rest, explains Cody Dey, an author of the Nature paper who was completing his PhD in Biology at McMaster at the
time of the research.