Sentences with phrase «university think tank»

Pam Tatlow of the Million + university think tank said «These proposals risk creating a two - tier A-level system which will complicate university admissions and reduce opportunities for students.»

I was working for a Johns Hopkins University think tank which supports DoD and NASA technology and we were identifying big challenges where new technologies could be used to help law enforcement and counterterrorism personnel.

Expenditure on education and training in Australia, from Victoria University think tank the Mitchell Institute, brings together data across all areas of education, serving as a prompt for governments to consider a more planned and consistent approach to distributing resources.

The university think tank, Million Plus, raised concerns about tuition fees for students being increased under the coalition.

A report from a George Mason University think tank is calling into question New York's budgetary health, taking a critical look at the state's debt, budget and cash solvency.

Not exact matches

A central bank governor «is not hired by the government to be a free - wheeling intellectual,» said Vivek Dehejia, an economic professor at Carleton University and a senior fellow in political economy at the IDFC Institute, a think - tank in Mumbai.

Lowe's and Fellow Robot announced the release of the LoweBot Tuesday at Silicon Valley - based think tank / university / incubator hybrid Singularity University's Globuniversity / incubator hybrid Singularity University's GlobUniversity's Global Summit.

«It seems that we are in the middle of a base race across the Indian Ocean,» David Brewster, senior research fellow at at the Australian National University, wrote in a February note published on think tank The Lowy Institute.

The potential payoff in the parts sector can not be underestimated, notes Peter Frise, CEO of AUTO21, an industry think - tank based at the University of Windsor.

But he acknowledged that student debt was a «huge issue», telling the Bright Blue liberal conservative think tank's conference: «If you wanted to say you want to reduce that (fees) then either fewer people go to university or the experience would be less.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

Over the last two months, everyone from IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have warned that a vote to leave would hit financial markets, while President Barack Obama and others, supported by a stream of studies from think - tanks banks and universities, have warned about the long - term damage to the U.K.'s economy.

Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations and author of book, The Citizen's Share and the Third Way think tank policy report, Having a Stake.

«We have reverted to being hewers of wood and drawers of water,» insists Diana Gibson, research director at the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute, a political and economic think - tank.

Wealthy progressives exert as much influence over think tanks and universities as wealthy conservatives.

When I graduated with my Bachelor of Arts at the University of Windsor, I applied to an opening at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the leading think - tank on Canada - Asia relations.

In law school, Park also served as the Executive Editor of the Forum on Law, Economics and Finance (F - LEAF), a student companion to George Washington University Law School's financial and economic law think tank, Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C - LEAF).

Nonetheless, out of a population this large, the number of Muslim Americans who either perpetrated or were arrested for terrorist crimes in 2010 was... 20, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (a consortium of Duke University, the University of North Carolina and RTI International, a think tank).

The issues addressed, far from being ignored or neglected by others, are endlessly debated in legislatures, government bureaucracies, think tanks, universities, and public forums beyond number.

In contrast, a fair comparison would have matched up children of same - s3x parents with children of heteros3xual parents who looked otherwise similar — no extra divorces, no extra separations, no extra time in foster care for the kids, said Gary Gates, a researcher at the Williams Inst itute, a s3xual orientation policy think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Carol Lancaster, who teaches at Georgetown University, has worked on U.S. policy toward Africa as a fellow of various Washington think tanks, as deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa in the Carter administration, and as deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Clinton administration.

One of my Redeemer University colleagues, Dr. Kevin Flatt, is quoted here, as is Michael Van Pelt, head of the Hamilton, Ontario, think tank, Cardus, for whose publication, Comment, I write on occasion.

Think tanks and universities are also entangled with Chinese money.

The think tanks that provide research supplementary to the universities are also heavily biased by the sources of their funds and the selection of their leaders.

Thomas Toch is director of FutureEd, an independent think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.

Only 6 percent of college - educated single women had children from 2006 - 2008, according to the National Marriage Project, a pro-marriage think tank housed at the University of Virginia, versus 54 percent of women who didn't graduate from high school and 44 percent of those with high school diplomas.

The University of California at San Francisco hosted the initial planning meeting and Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA, a well - known venue for think tanks, was the site of the 2011 & 2013 Summits.

It has various human rights centres in universities and think tanks.

He currently chairs Policy Network, the international progressive think tank, and is a Director of the University of Cumbria.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

He previously worked with various think tanks in Germany, India, Pakistan, and the UK, and has been a programme coordinator and research associate with Harvard University's Center for European Studies.

Come share in a discussion of research by Cornell University, local government associations and policy think tanks.

The University continues to be a proud pacesetter, mentoring and nurturing several higher institutions and think tanks in the country.

I know Think Tanks exist to think the unthinkable, but seriously... * I've known John Bercow since university Think Tanks exist to think the unthinkable, but seriously... * I've known John Bercow since university think the unthinkable, but seriously... * I've known John Bercow since university days.

We considered the geography of university academics invited to give evidence — bearing in mind that unlike other «expert» organisations like think - tanks, universities are distributed evenly across the country.

Shashank Joshi is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence think - tank in London, and a doctoral student of international relations at Harvard University.

Those we place in the independent expert category are university academics, researchers from think - tanks or private research firms, parliamentarians (excluding ministers), and individuals without any organisational affiliation.

Michael J. Malbin is a professor of political science at the University at Albany and executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.

Richard Brodsky is a fellow at the Demos think tank in New York City and at the Wagner School at New York University.

Formerly attached to the University at Albany, the think tank now serves the full 64 - campus SUNY system from an elegant State Street brownstone across from Washington Park.

This session will highlight current approaches to science diplomacy education at universities, research institutions, scientific societies, government agencies, think tanks, and international organizations at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

With an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master's in health promotion, completed in 1995, from TMDU, Moriguchi first worked at a health policy think tank in Tokyo and then in August 1999 joined the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology where he worked on policy issues related to drug evaluation and medical economics.

One advocate for its use is Donald Roberts, a medical zoologist recently retired from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, which collaborates with conservative think tanks.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

Rather than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a middle - aged male Ph.D. toiling at a large U.S. firm — and perhaps born abroad — is more likely to be behind the next big thing, conclude researchers from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Months after a request from a Virginia politician and a conservative think tank, the University of Virginia (UVA) has turned over documents related to embattled scientist Michael Mann's research into the history of Earth's climate.

The rising tide of people with long - term conditions threatens to overwhelm Britain's economy and the NHS, according to a new report published today by leading think tank, Lancaster University's Work Foundation.

Based on that book I was invited to be a hormone scholar at an environmental estrogen hormone think tank at Tulane University where I really worked with the guys who were developing this new field.