Sentences with phrase «schemes like public»

It facilitates actions such as opening a bank account, filing your tax returns, applying for a mutual fund, applying for a Permanent Account Number (PAN) or savings schemes like the Public Provident Fund (PPF), or even applying for a passport or a driving license.

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Under the law, bodies that commission maternity related services, like other public services, need to publish an overall scheme and action plan for promoting gender equality, covering all areas where gender equality issues are deemed to be relevant.

«Mayor Boris Johnson must improve air quality by prioritising funding for measures that will get Londoners driving less and walking, cycling and using public transport more - and scrap traffic generating schemes like new road crossings over the river Thames.»

His bill would restore audit powers that Cuomo took away from his office in 2011 and restrict the ability of public authorities to sign contracts through not - for - profits, like those used by former SUNY Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros before his arrest in the alleged bid - rigging scheme.

As part of our policy review I want us to look at whether we can make public - private financing models work here, building on schemes we introduced like the Enterprise Finance Guarantee and the Working Capital Scheme for exporters.

Do you really think you can lecture us about public sector pensions when it's your lot who set up the perverse compensation schemes for places like Network Rail?

The Teachers» Pension Scheme The Teachers» Pension Scheme (TPS), like other public sector pension schemes, is a Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy have repeatedly claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country's future.

While privatizers and their advocates claim that charters and schemes like blended learning will increase students» test scores, national research shows that charter schools, on average, perform no better than public schools.

She has lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers» expense.

As more people become aware that teachers unions like the AFT and its locals are holding our kids back, expect more and more secretive schemes like this one to keep the campaign cash flowing far from public scrutiny.

Public perception of the programme has changed somewhat in the last few years; where Early Access was once praised for helping developers create their projects — aiding the likes of DayZ and Rust — now that reputation has soured, and the scheme has sadly become known for buggy projects that may never exit development.

Other billionaire families like the Scaifes and companies like ExxonMobil have funneled tens of millions more to the same groups to bury climate science in public relations schemes designed to delay solutions to global warming.

«Malcolm Turnbull is prevented from that because of political considerations, so his government has to pretend it's doing something to placate public opinion, and things like fans on the reef, crown - of - thorns starfish culls and these other kinds of Mickey Mouse schemes are just a public relations stunt.»

But, particularly for two jurisdictions like the US and England and Wales, where conventional civil legal aid is now hard to get even for cases with a significant public interest, this is a real additional resource — albeit one which could never match universal coverage of an appropriate legal aid scheme.

This is good news for individuals who, like Ms Brewster, were denied a public sector scheme survivor's pension in circumstances where they had met the relevant criteria save for the completion of a nomination form.

Taxes can be saved with other tax - saving instruments like mutual funds, tax - saving bonds and government bonds, post-office savings schemes and Public Provident Fund (PPF).

In the months since The DAO enforcement action, the SEC repeatedly had warned the public about potentially fraudulent token sales, pump and dump schemes, cyberscams, celebrity promoters and the like, but little guidance had been provided by the SEC with respect to token sellers purporting to sell tokens with some functional utility.

Other positive signs for graduate schemes in 2018 indicate sectors like Retail and the Public Sector expect to see a significant rise in graduate vacancies.