When I decided at the age of 14 that I wanted to leave home to go to the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it was dad who packed up the car and made sure that I got there.
The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
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The initiative reinforces an agreement signed earlier this year between UNESCO and GEMS Education to strengthen and promote the advancement of girls in mathematics, science and technology through the training of teachers and school leaders, initially in Lesotho and Kenya.
He is the Executive Director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute and The Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science.
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He was still a young man when his calling to the priesthood came in the late 1950s after he had gained a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.
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Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
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The event therefore takes a very real and up-front approach to increasing the visibility of women in science, and raising awareness of the current gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research.
In addition to distorting salary structures elsewhere, the rewards that hedge-fund managers reap draw some of the very brightest science and mathematics graduates to the industry.
"The kinds of majors where you learn to integrate mathematics and science with the everyday world have a tremendous benefit in terms of earnings potential, " says PayScale.com's Lee.
Wales finished bottom amongst the UK nations in terms of the educational attainment of 15-year-olds in science, literacy and mathematics.
He'll characterize the students' projects as "really cool, " and he'll call out some lucky winners by name while speaking to the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics ( STEM) education in the United States.
Women are not claiming their rightful places in the fields of mathematics, science, engineering, technology, etc.
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Develop training policies for teachers in science subjects, integrating of mathematics, science and technology including the issue of gender and participative learning.
For the first time, applications were invited in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Theocritus, a Syracusan like Archimedes (the inventor of modern mathematics and science, who has a chamber of his own), is now credited with inventing pastoral poetry.
The global rankings are the result of two studies - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
Bob Cater noted that while there has been a positive increase in the number of pupils studying mathematics after the age of 16, advances in the number of people studying science, design and technology and engineering have only been modest.
He also started the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing in 1995 and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou--100 miles southwest of Shanghai and one of China's oldest universities--in 2002.
Norton thinks adding more mathematics to the crude science of cancer therapy will help.
The STAR Act, introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX), would eliminate the diversity lottery and redirect those green cards toward foreign graduates of American universities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM).
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Overall English pupils achieved scores in line with the international average for maths in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), with the top 10% of pupils' results comparable with those from some high achieving East Asian countries.
The Third International Mathematics and Science Survey represented something of a watershed in this regard.
Fourth, pursuing fusion will be a clarion call to bright young American minds to enter the critical fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Since the era of Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, advances in science and mathematics have required data in excess of our ability to compute it readily.
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or Pisa tests examines the performance of 15-year-old pupils in mathematics, science, and reading.
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It would use taxpayer funds to create a charter school to equip the children of thatWashington exurb with enhanced skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
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In education, the evidence is less clear: international studies of teenagers' prowess in mathematics and science show no clear link to spending levels.
In terms of mathematics and science scores for school-leavers, these countries rank among the highest in the world.
In Kenya and Lesotho, the Varkey GEMS Foundation is working with UNESCO on gender-sensiotive teacher training with the aim of encouraging more girls to attend school, and increase their participation in mathematics, science and technology education.
One of the rules of mathematics and physics, as I - a complete non-mathematician - read often in science books, is that when infinity is introduced into a scientific equation it no longer makes sense.
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