...believe that taking a business orientated course would be the next step in fulfilling my ambition. The business course that I am currently taking has given me skills such as conducting independent research, analysing data and information in order to compile presentations and reports. All this involves liaising with staff, other students and working as part of a team. I feel that I am able to contribute to discussions and present my own views based upon my work. I am organised and able to meet deadlines set. I particularly enjoy the financial aspect of business organisation and I believe I have the necessary mathematical skills to support this work. I have good IT skills and have applied these to various tasks including most recently projecting forecasts using excel. I have come to realise the importance of complying with law and minimising risks. I have had work experience in a local branch of an international retail company where I learned the importance of organisation and forward planning. It also gave me a further experience of working with people with common objectives. It was working in a competitive atmosphere where targets had been set and I was successful in meeting them. In July I worked for a finance company where I was given the responsibilities of researching the...
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...“Career Preferences of the Fourth Year Students of St. Joseph Academy of Valenzuela. School Year 2009-2010” _______________________ A Thesis Presented to The Division of Graduate Studies and Research ______________________ The National Teachers College ______________________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Education ____________________ by Fatima B. Feticio (1:00pm-4:00pm) March 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgment iii List of Figure ix Chapter 1 The Problem—Its Background …………………………………. Statement of the Problem………………………………………… Importance of Study…………………………………………………. Definition of Terms……………………………………………………. Scope and Delimitation…………………………………………….. Related Literature and Studies…………………………………. 2 Method of Study……………………………………………………….. Instrument and Technique Used……………………………… 3 Presentation and Interpretation of Data…………………. 4 Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations……… Summary of Findings……………………………………………….. Conclusions………………………………………………………………. Recommendations……………………………………………………. Bibliography Appendix -- Letter of Request Questionnaire Curriculum Vitae ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researcher express her warmful thanks to the following: Mr. Kim Kirby Colibao and Ms. Charmlin Dayao, for giving inspiring words given Ms. Kathleen Dela Cruz and Mr. Pat Siegfred Lacsamana , for giving suggestions and recommendations ...
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...OLS Student Workshops OLS Delivered Workshop Schedule: * All workshops are offered every week. * Workshops begin on Wednesday and end on Friday. * Students can register for a workshop until 11:59pm AZ time on Tuesday. Student Online Registration: * Students register for workshops on ecampus * Students click on "Program" then "Student Workshops" Local Workshop Availability * Most local campuses offer face to face workshops and all University of Phoenix and Axia students are welcome to attend. Please contact your local campus for a complete listing and schedule of available workshops. Titles and Descriptions * Basic Essay Writing -- This 3-day workshop introduces students to the concepts of basic essay writing. The workshop focuses on thesis statements, content organization, introductions and conclusions, and transitions. It helps students develop the competencies necessary for academic success. This workshop also reviews applicable University of Phoenix writing resources. * Learning Teams -- This three-day workshop introduces students to the Learning Team structure and requirements at University of Phoenix. The workshop focuses on the benefits of working in Learning Teams, effective organization and communication strategies in a Learning Team, and effective strategies for resolving conflict in a Learning Team. * Using the University Library -- This workshop is an introduction to using the University of Phoenix Library. The workshop...
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...these guidelines be adhered to by schools from a young ages i.e. primary schools, as the early years of a child’s life are crucial in the development of fundamental movement skills and the opportunity to develop physical capacities. In some schools however, there are various reasons as to why these necessary requirements are not complied with. These include poor time allocation to P.E as other subjects are seen as more superior and of more importance, lack of assessment procedures, financial reasons e.g. lack of resources such as halls, pitches and courts and also poor equipment available such as nets, balls, rackets etc. Finally one huge factor contributing to the inadequacy of P.E classes or no P.E classes at all may be due to the deficiency in numbers of qualified Physical Education teachers and also negative attitudes from parents and individuals in higher power positions e.g. principals. In 2007 61% of countries identified Physical Education as an examinable subject in comparison to the considerable number of countries which identify Maths as examinable. The junior cycle physical Education syllabus states that ‘the general aim of education is to contribute towards the development of all aspects of the individual’. How then I question, is...
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...passing required exit exams in high school yet they still needed remediation upon entry to college. The Common Core is good because it provides a set of age appropriate learning goals and sets a national high-quality academic standard for Math and English to prepare students for college and the workforce. In essence, the Common Core defines what a student should know and be able to do at different grade levels. The Common Core is beneficial to all students, especially for those students interested in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education or ‘STEM’ fields. They both teach problem solving skills and focus on learning to use Common Core modules for optimum results. In addition, students learn to think outside the box, they learn how to create a good argument, defend the argument, and look for patterns. Learning these skills will increase their problem solving and reasoning abilities, which prepares them for STEM jobs. Desiree Hall, writes, “The new work is challenging, based on rigorous new Common Core State Standards…they have to explain how they got it. That’s a real brain workout”(Hall). Moreover, the implementation of the Common Core makes it harder for students to forget about STEM courses because students were submerged in math, science, and English. Finally, the Common Core affects the reading and English tests by using more STEM vocabulary, which also supports student readiness. Another added benefit can be seen at the socioeconomic level for society. Successful...
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...They would rationalize that a college degree was an invaluable and necessary document within our modern world. In addition, my parents were experts at strategizing finances. We decided to take out smart loans for my college education, which allowed my parents to help finance my interest while I was still in school. Overall, the economic approach is important in explaining my search process. Although I cannot consciously remember my parents performing a cost-benefit analysis, my college journey was set in motion from the moment my parents moved. Throughout my life, college was always seen as feasible in my mind due to the fact that my parents had the means to navigate financial aid, loans, and help me pay for my bachelor's degree....
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...have become on the hotlist of critical issues around the world. Hausmann, Tyson, & Zahidi (2009) reported that there is no country in the world that has yet reached equality between women and men in different critical areas such economic participation or education. It is well accepted that there are no differences in the general intelligence or basic cognition between males and females, the issue is whether each category is innately better at certain, very specific, skills. The cognitive differences that have been put forward include men being slightly better than women at tasks that involve the mental spatial rotation of an object, spatial perception and visualization, and math problem solving. Women seem to score slightly better on tasks that involve visual memory, word and landmark recall and math calculations (Kimura, Doreen, 2002, Pinker, Spelke, 2005, Newcomb, Nora et. al., 2005). “It is important to remember, when we sees assertions such as these, that these are general trends and that not every individual is held to them. Although both men and women as populations tend to do better at certain tasks, the margin of difference is quite small”(K. Smythe, 2008) Male “In mathematics, boys and girls have similar results at the fourth and eighth school years in most countries. Boys' advantage emerges in the later school years and is especially noticeable among students who attend the same teaching programmes and year groups. Yet, both boys and girls are similarly interested...
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...scorecard (BSC) was first introduced by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (1992) in their now widely cited Harvard Business Review article, “The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance.” The widespread adoption and use of the BSC is well documented. For example, Kaplan and Norton (2001) reported that by 2001 about 50% of the Fortune 1000 companies in North America and 40% to 45% of companies in Europe were using the BSC. The basic premise of the BSC is that financial results alone cannot capture value-creating activities (Kaplan & Norton, 2001). In other words, financial measures are lagging indicators and, as such, are not effective in identifying the drivers or activities that affect financial results. Kaplan and Norton (1992) suggested that organizations, while using financial measures, should develop a comprehensive set of additional measures to use as leading indicators, or predictors, of financial performance. They suggested that measures should be developed that address four perspectives: 1. The financial perspective. Measures in this perspective should answer the question, “How should we appear to our shareholders?” 2. The customer perspective. These measures should answer the question, ABSTRACT. Although the application of the balanced scorecard (BSC) in the business sector is well documented, very little research has been reported regarding the adaptation or application of the BSC in the education sector. In this article, the authors (a) describe how the Baldrige...
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...Source: S. G. Powell and K. R. Baker, 2004. The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets. New York: Wiley & Sons. Copyright © 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION MODELS AND MODELING Modeling is the process of creating a simplified representation of reality and working with this representation in order to understand or control some aspect of the world. While this book is devoted to mathematical models, modeling itself is a ubiquitous human activity. In fact, it seems to be one of just a few fundamental ways in which humans understand the world. As an example, a map is one of the most common models we encounter. Maps are models because they simplify reality by leaving out most geographic details in order to highlight the important features we need. A state road map, for example, shows major roads but not minor ones, gives rough locations of cities but not individual addresses, and so on. The map we choose must be appropriate for the need we have: a long trip home across several states requires a regional map, while a trip across town to find a new doctor’s office requires a detailed street map. In the same way, a good model must be appropriate for the specific uses intended for it. A complex model of the economy is probably not appropriate for pricing an individual product. Likewise, a back-of-the-envelope calculation may be inappropriate for acquiring a multibillion-dollar company. Models take many different forms: mental, visual, physical, mathematical...
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...Kofi Hodge Critical Perspectives in Urban Education Professor Bristol December 10, 2013 The Parenting Gap: A comparison of parenting and academic achievement: The institution of schools does not act alone it encompasses the school itself, teachers, parents, students among other factors that work simultaneously with one another. Up until just recently, I placed much of the blame for teachers’ inability to be successful with minority students in a classroom, on the teachers' inability to communicate and relate to and with students. The students' own self-victimization and the ideology that a student of a particular race or ethnicity cannot perform well because of the stereotypes that come with that race or ethnicity also plays a role. Of the many factors, the role parents play in educational achievement is often overlooked, because many believe that the task of educating solely rests with the school and the teachers. Parental involvement in students’ education gradually decreases as early as the first grade. In addition with the implementation of test based accountability, lack of student achievement is being placed on teachers because tests don’t consider factors such as if a student “pays attention in class” or “attends school regularly” (Ravitch 2010). The decrease of parental involvement results in a decrease of parent expectations of the student and allows students to matriculate through school receiving mediocre grades and their parents never know. Seeing as though the...
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...TPV1 – CHAPTER 3 Management’s job is to support the vision of the company. Their role is to cut costs, increase productivity, increase revenues, and ensure that the requirements of upper management are met. Functional organizations are fairly common. These types of organizations are segmented by departments and their “functions. * In a true functional environment, all team members, including the project manager, report to their functional manager. * Project managers are sometimes simply called project coordinators or expeditors in a functional structure. A matrix organization model allows a project team to incorporate resources from around the organization regardless of which department employees may work in. * Weak matrix The functional managers have autonomy and power over the project team members. * Balanced The project manager and the functional manager have equal power and autonomy over the project team. * Strong matrix The project manager has autonomy over the project and the project team. Working in a Projectized Organization - In this structure the project manager works with complete autonomy over the project. The project team is on the project full-time and reports only to the project manager. Presenting the Project to Management * When you begin a presentation, you want to capture your audience’s attention. You want to hook them and reel them into your project idea. One of the most effective ways to do this is to start at the end. Tell your...
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...Transforming Lives Communities The Nation …One Student at a Time Disclaimer Academic programmes, requirements, courses, tuition, and fee schedules listed in this catalogue are subject to change at any time at the discretion of the Management and Board of Trustees of the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). The COSTAATT Catalogue is the authoritative source for information on the College’s policies, programmes and services. Programme information in this catalogue is effective from September 2010. Students who commenced studies at the College prior to this date, are to be guided by programme requirements as stipulated by the relevant department. Updates on the schedule of classes and changes in academic policies, degree requirements, fees, new course offerings, and other information will be issued by the Office of the Registrar. Students are advised to consult with their departmental academic advisors at least once per semester, regarding their course of study. The policies, rules and regulations of the College are informed by the laws of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. iii Table of Contents PG 9 PG 9 PG 10 PG 11 PG 11 PG 12 PG 12 PG 13 PG 14 PG 14 PG 14 PG 14 PG 15 PG 17 PG 18 PG 20 PG 20 PG 20 PG 21 PG 22 PG 22 PG 22 PG 23 PG 23 PG 23 PG 23 PG 24 PG 24 PG 24 PG 24 PG 25 PG 25 PG 25 PG 26 PG 26 PG 26 PG 26 PG 26 PG 26 PG 27 PG 27 PG 27 PG 27 PG 27 PG 27 PG 28 PG 28 PG 28 PG 28 PG 28 PG 33 PG 37 Vision Mission President’s...
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...CHAPTER 1 What Is Financial Modelling? here are all sorts of complicated definitions of financial modelling, and in my experience there is quite a bit of confusion around what a financial model is exactly. A few years ago, we put together a Plum Solutions survey about the attitudes, trends, and uses of financial modelling, asked respondents “What do you think a financial model is?” Participants were asked to put down the first thing that came to mind, without any research or too much thinking about it. I found the responses interesting, amusing, and sometimes rather disturbing. Some answers were overly complicated and highly technical: n T n n n n “Representation of behaviour/real-world observations through mathematical approach designed to anticipate range of outcomes.” “A set of structured calculations, written in a spreadsheet, used to analyse the operational and financial characteristics of a business and/or its activities.” “Tool(s) used to set and manage a suite of variable assumptions in order to predict the financial outcomes of an opportunity.” “A construct that encodes business rules, assumptions, and calculations enabling information, analysis, and insight to be drawn out and supported by quantitative facts.” “A system of spreadsheets and formulas to achieve the level of record keeping and reporting required to be informed, up-to-date, and able to track finances accurately and plan for the future.” Some philosophical: n “A numerical...
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...Introduction A. Social Problem Education plays an important role in the way a particular country progresses. The US has always strived for high education standards; however, recent statistics point out that the country has competitively fallen behind when compared to other developed countries. For this reason, education has played an important role in the US agenda for many years. In January 8th, 2002, the US Congress passed a law called “No Child Left Behind Act” (NCLB), which expanded the role of federal government in education. This law strongly emphasizes the implementation of standardized tests in public schools to measure the progress of students as well as to hold teachers and schools accountable for students’ progress. A social problem that the NCLB is trying to fix is the fact that the quality of education in US’ public schools has decreased during the last years. Alarming statistics have shown that the country’s education system is not as internationally competitive as it used to be. For example, according to a report issued by the Council on Foreign Relations, the United States has slipped ten spots in high school and college graduation rates in the past three decades (CFR). Poor education affects the entire country because of the close relation that progress has with having a skillful workforce. Furthermore, other social problems, such as poverty and crime, are indirectly related to inferior education. An extensive body of research has found that people with...
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...disclose it without the express written permission of Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. It is acknowledged by reader that information to be furnished in this business plan is in all respects confidential in nature, other than information which is in the public domain through other means, and that any disclosure or use of same by reader may cause serious harm or damage to Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. Upon request, this document is to be immediately returned. ___________________ Signature ___________________ Name (typed or printed) ___________________ Date Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 3 II. Executive Summary 4 III. Company Description 6 IV. Marketing Plan 8 V. Operational Plan…………………………………………………………………………… 22 VI. Financial Plan 32 VII. Exit Strategy 39 VIII. Appendices & References 41 Executive Summary Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC (BMA) will be a private school that offers group tutoring, individual tutoring, and a student supply store. BMA is scheduled to open on August 13th, 2012 at 113 Cumberland Avenue in Madison, Tennessee. The school and tutoring programs are on a year round schedule where the classes will meet for 45 days and break for 15 days. The owners chose a year round schedule so students have a more cohesive learning environment than the traditional 3 month summer break schedule. The Brilliant Minds Academy owners are [Names of everyone in your group]. These entrepreneurs have accounting, management, marketing, and technology backgrounds...
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