Sentences with phrase «above national levels»

The new building, which is now under construction by Foremans, will allow the school to provide a high quality, direct, post-16 progression route for its students for the first time, maintaining standards and outcomes far above national levels.

The new facility is allowing the school to provide a high quality, direct, post-16 progression route for its students for the first time, maintaining standards and outcomes far above national levels.

As a guiding paradigm, Symbiotic realism argues that state interest must now be accommodated within frameworks of cooperation that balance between power - maximization and the reality of a very complex global system, populated by actors that operate at multiple levels bothbelow and above the national level.

The number of common bicycle injuries and accidents in Florida is above the national level, in part due to the poor accommodation for bicycles in some of the larger Florida cities like Miami.

Servicemen and women who have retired since 9/11 have been particularly hard - hit, with 9.7 percent of them unemployed in September, nearly 2 percentage points above the national level.

Some states, including the so - called» sand states» (Arizona, Florida, Nevada and California), are still well above the national level, at an average 28 percent, but they, too, have seen improvement over the last year, with negative equity dropping over 40 percent across those four states since January 2012, says LPS Applied Analytics Senior Vice President Herb Blecher.

Not exact matches

The findings chime with data from the Office of National Statistics released last month that showed that UK household spending remained level at an average of # 528.90 a week in the financial year ending 2016, unable to rise above pre-crisis levels.

In the leaked report, the IMF says that Greece's debts threaten to be unsustainable for decades, and that its financing needs will rise so that they are above the 15 % of national income level deemed safe.

Existing home sales declined 2.6 percent from February to a 4.48 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, but were 5.2 percent above the March 20 - 11 level, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).

It starts with elite senior Aquira DeCosta (pictured above)-- who has signed with perennial national power Baylor — and also contains two more Power 5 - level seniors: Ariel Johnson (Florida) and Neenah Young (many Power 5 offers but decided to go to Princeton).

In addition to the «First - timers» described above, the Cowboys» program has produced a large contingent of exceptionally talented wrestlers, many going on to perform well at the national and collegiate levels.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

The wiki page linked above has only 5 other examples of national level Democrat politicians, past or present, who are atheistic; plus the ever - nonconforming Jesse Ventura who's an Independent.

To be clear, every school district in New York is funded at a level above the national average.

The # 43,888 - a-year ceiling on national insurance contributions (NICs) would be abolished, so people earning more would pay NICs at 11 per cent on all their income above that level, instead of the current 1 per cent.

«I have taken my cue from the Democrats in the Senate, led by Sen. Patty Murray and others, like my good friend Kirsten Gillibrand, who has said we will set a national level of $ 12 and then urge any place that can go above it to go above it,» she added.

Smith, as Shadow Chancellor, proposed to get rid of the anomaly by which National Insurance contributions were deducted up to a certain level of earnings, but not increased above that level.

«We are having slightly above 4,500 delegates from the 21 Local Government Areas of the state and 326 electoral wards, 12 delegates per wards and 26 delegates per LGA and statutory delegates from the state to the national level,» he added.

This is 10 ng / ml above the level recommended in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine, now part of The National Academies, a health advisory group to the federal government.

Without the dispersant injection, the model showed that benzene concentrations in the air 2 meters above the sea surface would have been 13 times higher than the levels considered acceptable to breathe during a 10 - hour working day or a 40 - hour work week, based on guidelines by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

«We found that participants with blood levels of 25 - hydroxyvitamin D that were above 30 ng / ml had one - third of the risk of diabetes and those with levels above 50 ng / ml had one - fifth of the risk of developing diabetes,» said first author Sue K. Park, MD, in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in South Korea.

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

Analysts believe OPEC could boost production later this year, but only if prices rise above $ 70 or $ 75 a barrel, a level deemed appropriate by OPEC states whose national budgets depend on fossil fuel exports.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Residents in the western Chinese city of Lanzhou rushed to buy bottled water on Friday after authorities said the city's drinking water contained levels of benzene, a cancer - inducing chemical, standing at 20 times above national safety levels.

Under Obama's proposal, the National Science Foundation (NSF) would see a budget boost of 13 % above 2010 enacted levels, with most of the nearly billion - dollar increase spread across the agency's core research - funding areas.

For example, in 2011 only 67 % of American children read at or above the basic level on the fourth - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress.

And the Joint Polar Satellite System within the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration would get $ 920 million, some $ 438 million above its current level and more than double the House panel's mark of $ 430 million.

National Institute of Standards and Technology: NIST is funded at $ 864 million, which is $ 14 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level.

In the summer, when these weather patterns subside, ozone levels in national parks are still above what would be expected given U.S. reductions in ozone - precursors.

Lead concentrations in the air and soil are 8.5 to 10 times above national health standards and lead dusts local crops at levels 24 times higher than such health standards.

Nuclear Security — To address our national security needs and meet emerging threats from around the globe, the bill provides a total of $ 13.9 billion for DOE's nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017 level.

The office, which is a target for elimination in the Trump administration's 2018 budget, would also see its support for stock assessments of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, funded at $ 10 million, moved to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the law notes, making the funding to Sea Grant «effectively above the fiscal year 2016 level.»

On November 10 (Chilean Time), Band 10 receiver manufactured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan successfully received radio waves from a celestial objet for the first time in a test observation at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m above sea level.

A study from the National Cancer Institute (PMID 20847342) found that five of six cancer categories had increased mortality in men who had serum 25 - OHD levels above 50 nmol / L.

The 2011 8th - grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students read at or above proficiency levels.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

The National Literacy Trust's research, Children's and Young People's Reading in 2014, found that children who enjoy reading «very much» are three times more likely to read above the level expected for their age, compared with their peers who do not enjoy reading at all.

Humanity must get aware that only will be possible eliminate political violence that leads to war of everyone against everyone in the national and international levels since the above contradictions disappear that still prevail in the world in which we live.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

In 1998, Florida's 4th grade NAEP reading scores were one grade level below the national average; by 2005, their adjusted scores were above the national average.

By the 4th grade, public school children who score among the top 10 percent of students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reading at least six grade levels above those in the bottom 10 percent.

On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, just 40 percent of black 4th graders scored at or above the «basic» level in reading, compared with 75 percent of white students.

Research from the National Literacy Trust has shown that students who enjoy writing are seven times more likely to be writing above the expected level for their age, compared to those who don't enjoy writing at all.

The charities claim that pupils who enjoy reading «very much» are three times as likely to read above the level expected of their age and, whilst the national curriculum requires schools to support children's enjoyment of reading, this is not accurately reflected in current assessments.

The school's sixth form recorded an overall A level pass rate of 99 %, with a brilliant 82 % of entries graded A * to C and 55 % of all exams receiving top grades of A * to B, well above the national average.

At the national level in 2016, 55 per cent of Year 6 students achieved at or above proficient standard, up from 52 per cent in 2013 and 2010.

Overall, NSW students scored above the national average and rank in the top three for all tests for all year levels.

With research from the National Literacy Trust finding that pupils who regularly use the school library read at or above the expected level for their age, now is the time for schools to make a change and recognise the importance of library provisions.

Dr. Carbo: Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that, by fourth grade, only one third of U. S. students read at or above grade level.