Sentences with phrase «better than public sector»

That's the idea of them, the Tory ideal, that business people know how to run things like this better than the public sector.

Not exact matches

Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

With good workplace culture being recognized more than ever as key to productivity, these professionals are finding their skills in demand in many parts of the corporate structure, both private - and public - sector.

A colleague of mine, Stephen Zarlenga, has just published a historical study, The Lost Science of Money (2002), showing that public - sector fiat money has a much better record than privately created fiat money.

Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater efficiency than the public sector was able to do.

And that's not even to mention the media - saturated propaganda about how much more efficient the private sector is, how the profit motive means it gets more things done better for less money than the public sector.

Rather than private companies getting these brand spanking new prisons and letting us down we want to make sure that they're treated the same as the public sector and sharing best practices.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

Only 46 per cent of this group agree that the proposed cuts are «necessary and unavoidable» — well below the average for all voters (63 per cent) and lower even than among public sector workers in the seat (59 per cent).

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

«During a stellar career in the public and private sectors, Ms. Glen has been a leader in financing and rehabilitating thousands of moderate and low - income housing units in our city, as well as an advocate for small businesses and a catalyst for more than $ 5 billion worth of public - private partnerships.

The reforms would mean public sector pensions would «remain considerably better than available in the private sector».

«I can look you in the eye and say public service pensions will remain among the very best... much better, indeed, than for many private sector workers.

Tory MPs, whose constituencies are predominantly made up of private sector workers, echoed Alexander's remarks that public sector workers would still receive a better pension than most in private sector.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

It has overseen an explosion in the wage bill of the state, to the point where the average public - sector worker now earns # 74 more per week than a private - sector employee, as well as having much better pension and other entitlements.»

Over the next decade the price of the financial / economic mess we are in will be paid in public sector cuts — better to cut the non-productive audit and bureaucratic command and control regimes (and I include the quangos, central government departments and the consequent costs in local government) than front line services.

David Cameron led Ed Miliband by 15 points (42 % to 27 %) as best Prime Minister in the national poll, though it was notable that his lead was twice as high among men (22 points) than among women (10 points), and more than twice as high among private sector workers (24 points) than public (10 points)-- though for him to have any sort of lead among public sector workers in the current climate is an achievement worth noting.

On an hourly basis, the typical public sector worker is now 30 % better paid than the typical worker in the private sector.

«It is good that research budgets are less hit than other sectors, but the prior commitments of SFI [Science Foundation Ireland, a leading public - funding body], due to multiannual funding, suggest that we are in for 2 to 3 years of very limited opportunity for new competitive funding, so some excellent work will not be funded.»

That's better than in the public sector.

According to the Common Good authors, Catholic high schools — and many believe that this applies to elementary schools as well — «manage simultaneously to achieve relatively high levels of student learning, distribute this learning more equitably with regard to race and class than in the public sector, and sustain high levels of teacher commitment and student engagement.»

Foot made the declaration at the school funding conference in London, acknowledging that whilst schools fared better than other parts of the public sector in the Spending Review, it faced a difficult time ahead.

Third, keeping primary - secondary education separate from the rest of the public sector now does more harm than good.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

TPS and LGPS Pensions are viewed as a benefit but, at the end of the day, someone has to pay for them and the pensions in education — and all the public sector — are so much better than in the private sector; the figures just do not add up and both pension schemes have been underfunded for years.

LFA members, which include AACTE and collectively represent more than 10 million educators, parents, and local policy makers, contributed their sectors» best practices and research to the compendium to advance a collective vision of how and why public schools flourish.

«No Money in the Bank» does more than layout the many dimensions of the public sector pension crisis in crisp, highly readable prose, though it does that very well indeed.

It is clear that students emerging from the public school sector are much better equipped to handle computer technologies than were previous generations.

Research indicates that today's public - sector workers such as teachers receive less compensation — or combined pay and benefits — than similar workers in the private sector.25 Historically, public - sector jobs were attractive to workers due to their stability, their high - quality benefits such as defined - benefit pensions, as well as their intangible benefits such as pride in public service.

The charter sector that she supports avidly does not do better overall than public school, and her favored charter school landscape is a nearly unregulated free for all with for profit operators — which invites in fraud and self dealing.

The existence of this positive externality of firms» R&D — or put differently, the public - good nature of the information generated by R&D — means that the private sector will carry out less than the «efficient» amount of R&D of new climate - friendly technologies in response to given carbon prices.

One does not trim down the departments in the public service which used to deal with such projects, systematically subcontract an increasing number of tasks to the private sector (often less on the basis of technical skills than favors for politically well - connected campaign supporters), or engage in a policy of «let the private sector figure it out for the best» without arriving at a stage where even dedicated teams can not do things, because they simply no longer have the experience required to do things.

In our view, given his innovative vision and success in both the public and private sectors, there is no one better able to lead Washington's 10th District through these challenges and opportunities than Denny Heck.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

The outgoing Information Commissioner appeared to believe that private sector organisations were somehow better at data protection than the public sector.

They may be aging, but they are living well and well - positioned players are going to make more money from the aging demographic than from any other sector of the buying or selling public during the next two or three decades.

In this context, the private sector, particularly in thoughtful partnership with non-profits, emerges as significantly better equipped to address the dire need for quality, affordable housing than the public sector or capitalistic market forces.