Sentences with phrase «year of schooling as»

Several studies find that that the labor - market payoff to adolescents completing an additional year of schooling as a result of being compelled to attend is as large as 10 percent.

If teachers treat all students in the same year of school as equally ready for the same curriculum, then some lower - achieving students are likely to be left behind and some higher - achieving students are unlikely to be challenged and extended.

First, using years of school as a measure of quality, it appears that the education level of teachers has declined relative to the schooling of other workers, no matter how skilled.

That study, «Education and Economic Growth: It's not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters,» discussed problems with using average years of schooling as an indicator of a country's human capital and analyzed the role of both school attainment and cognitive skills in economic growth.

For example, because subjects like math rely on cumulative knowledge, if students fail to grasp early concepts, you will see a ripple effect throughout the year, and possibly in future years of school as well.

I have switched my major 4 times in the first two years of school as I have been struggling to find a major that is going to put me heading down the right path.

Not exact matches

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from noAs the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from noas the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

He launched the Kickstarter campaign as a part of his MBA Summer Internship program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management following his first year of classwork.

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

As CEO Evan Spiegel last year told graduates of USC's business school, concerning innovation: «Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is.

Google's own YouTube has also emerged as a critical back - to - school shopping vehicle for 18 to 24 - year - olds — 22 percent of whom said they «go to YouTube to find out what's cool to purchase.»

You'll need to finish secondary school at minimum, but after that, it's a path familiar to tradespeople: a period of apprenticeship, followed by certification, and several years as a fully qualified worker.

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

In July, Eli Bartov, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and two other researchers found that «aggregate opinion» from tweets before earnings announcements could predict earnings surprises as well as market reactions for individual stocks, leading to outperformance of 5 % to 10 % per year.

He was featured in Crain's «40 under 40»; awarded Irish America's Business 100 profile four years running; and was honored to be guest speaker at The Wharton School of Business on entrepreneurship and leadership as well as Cornell and DePaul Universities.

Four years after an overhaul of Desautels's facilities as well as its curriculum, the school is embracing its model of «integrated learning.»

The decision came as Jennifer Campisi was taking her 9 - year - old son E.J., a transgender student, to the first day of school in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.

Two years later as a 26 - year - old MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School, he launched the precursor to LendingTree.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

And early next year the Schulich academic family is expecting another addition — this one a school of education at an as - yet - undisclosed university.

In the meantime, NCEI will partner with schools, exhibits and events such as the Maker Faire in D.C. next year, with a goal of reaching about 50,000 students making class trips to the area over the next three years.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

This year, however, a substantial number of schools couldn't provide the salary data we requested, so we've eliminated it as a factor.

The handcrafted medal on the right was awarded to him last year when he served as co-president of the parents council at his son's school.

Demand tends to be higher as parents look to fill the gap between summer camps and activities, and the start of the new school year, she said.

Springbank is also home to two of the city's most sought - after private schools, Webber Academy and Strathcona - Tweedsmuir School, as well as the prestigious Glencoe golf and country club, which Gull purported to have a five - year waiting list for new members.

«For over 60 years, I've been able to tap dance to work, doing what I love doing,» he tells high school students in Omaha as part of the documentary.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

The school plans to put less of an emphasis on its traditional two - year degree program as part of a sweeping strategic review at the school.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

Also in the second year, and also similar to programs in top U.S. schools, CEIBS offers for the fall term an international exchange program with about 30 partner schools, including Wharton, the U.C. Berkeley Haas School, UCLA's Anderson School, Duke's Fuqua, Michigan's Ross, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler, Indiana's Kelley, and Dartmouth's Tuck, along with European institutions such as London Business School, Spain's ESADE and IESE, France's HEC and INSEAD, plus other schools including the Indian School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Canada's Queen's, Rotman, Sauder, and Schulich schools.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

After Jain stepped down as Kellogg's dean in August 2009, he didn't realize that he would be back at the helm of another leading business school in just over a year.

The Director of Clinical Operations for the Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Ettinger is described as «one of the best students I have seen in more than 30 years of teaching Executive MBA students» by Dennis P. Sheehan, the school's faculty director for MBA programs.

The university and the business school are keeping Saloner on as dean until the end of the academic year, and then he will go back to being a professor.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

As a small business owner, you may think that hiring someone fresh out of college — maybe even fresh out of high school — could be a good change of pace for a position that normally requires a few years of experience.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

If you fancy working in the dental health profession but can't see yourself enduring or affording all those years of dental school, starting a career as a dental hygienist might be a good option with a good income and a positive employment outlook.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?