Armed conflict is also diverting public funds from education into military spending, the report warns.
Three years later, she channeled her passion for education into College Track, an after-school program she founded to help low-income students get into college.
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Summit participants adopted a Statement urging governments and the international community to translate their commitment to education into concrete actions, including increased financial allocations.
The region's nimbler, more market-oriented colleges have been helped by the new practice of dividing education into chunks (bachelor's and master's degrees, for a start), with work sandwiched in between.
The absence of conversion of a promising STEM education into employment opportunities and high-growth entrepreneurship contributes to an astonishingly low rate of job-creating, high-growth businesses and overall performance in the innovation ecosystem.
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Ms Irene Pritzker, president of the Innovation, Development Progress Foundation (IDP), called for stronger support for market-driven solutions in deprived and unreached areas where parents and communities are taking education into their own hands.
Along with more than 20 other U.S. and European business schools, those institutions met last month at George Washington for a conference to discuss ways to better integrate a liberal-arts education into the business curriculum.
Winner of the 2010 Working Capital Telecom Prize, start up competition sponsored by Telecom Italia, Timbuktu Labs builds cross-platform reading experiences that bring the most advanced methods of education into the publishing market.
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Most will turn 16 during the year and can leave school, but ministers are keen to raise Scotland's skills level so want to encourage them to stay on in education into a fifth or even sixth year and beyond.
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Following the path of other industries such as telecommunications or computer services, this modularization of higher education into scalable online courses will allow a reintegration of modules with the needs of users, not of course providers, in the forefront.
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S. 65 in the South Bronx, which Dahn claims has incorporated brain education exercises into the curriculum.
As they work their way through primary education and on into basic secondary, education delay increases the probability of students dropping out of school.
This week a supposedly bipartisan position on federal aid to the states for education fractured into partisan wrangling, and there will be more of the same.
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For example, we consolidate 38 separate education programs into 11.
"We kind of broke the whole education space into three rough categories, " says Kaplan College President Bill Rosenthal, outlining a market for traditional institutions and degrees on the one hand, and for personal learning on the other.
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But a virtual school does not fully replicate an actual classroom, and even if it did, we should be deeply troubled by the funneling of public education dollars into the coffers of for-profit businesses with very dubious transparency and even more dubious results.
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Ultimately it will be those visions, applications, the judging of the applications, and, most importantly, the execution of the winning visions by the school districts themselves that have the potential to set the country on a path toward transforming the education system into a student-centric one and bolstering the achievement of every child.
Over 50 invited participants will collectively explore and develop concrete tools to draw higher education more effectively into local EFA activities and to make higher education an effective EFA partner.
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development began on January 1, 2005 and aims to promote education as a basis for a more sustainable society and to integrate sustainable development into education at all levels and all areas of life including communities, the workplace and society in general.
And in practice, a large majority of students who stay in education beyond the age of 16 continue into higher education.
In January 2010, UIL and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) held a Ministerial Conference on the Integration of African Languages and Cultures into Education in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The Netherlands will set up programs to encourage more girls to choose technical education programs and more boys to go into the primary education sector.
Some people thought if you just put more money into education that would solve the problem.
Of course put more money into education, but take some of the pressure off as well.
Instead of military expenditure, they are pouring their resources into education, innovation and embracing their bio-diversity.
The need for continual re-education extends even into the later stages of most working lives.
It also proposed extending the education maintenance allowances, paid to some further education students, into the university sector.
This has long been championed by radical right wingers as a way of introducing the free market into education.
Significantly, funds raised through sales of rugs go directly into education and food.
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