Sentences with phrase «chancellor last»

Now, in a strange - bedfellows twist, Ms. Rhee has named Mr. Parker as the first senior fellow of Students First, the national group she formed after stepping down as chancellor last fall.

Since resigning as chancellor last year, Rhee has launched a new organization, StudentsFirst, with the express goal of raising $ 1 billion to counter teachers unions.

Upon becoming chancellor last spring, Dennis Walcott vowed to change that, while at the same time praising the department's efforts during the time Klein was chancellor (and Walcott deputy mayor).

The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.

The low point was Michael Bloomberg's appointment in 2011 of Cathie Black, a magazine executive, whose tenure as chancellor lasted only three months.

Not exact matches

She dispatched her vice chancellor to Washington last week to talk trade and prepare the ground for her one - day visit to the White House on Friday, April 27.

Having retired from Empire last year, Paul Sobey was announced as the next chancellor of Saint Mary's in October 2014.

Last year the movement inspired college students to take up the mantel, with some successes (the system president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned over outcry they failed to address campus racism).

At last November's Budget, the chancellor announced that the National Living Wage would increase 4.4 % for those aged 25 or over.

It is also expected to be her last term as chancellor.

They'd completed all their studies, the graduation service was all done, but there was one last step: They had all to stand up and recite after the chancellor of the school a «martyr's oath.»

Last month, American Atheists sent a letter of complaint to the chancellor at Troy demanding an apology.

It was this time last year that then chancellor George Osborne announced his intention to levy a sugar tax on the soft drinks industry and it is expected those levy rates will be announced today.

App State, as it's known in conference, play in picturesque, inhospitable, 16,500 - seat Kid Brewer Stadium, a.k.a. the Rock, where students tore down the goalposts last Saturday night, then deposited one of them on the front lawn of chancellor Kenneth Peacock.

The outgoing chancellor tabled beer and wine sales to the public at Darrel K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium last summer to study the impact at basketball, baseball, and softball games for the 2014 - 15 seasons.

Warning delegates that Britain is «sinking in a sea of debt», the shadow chancellor berated Mr Brown for offering more unfunded commitments in his leader's speech in Brighton last week.

The chancellor, in a speech to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) last night, defended the free - market against what he sees as an anti-business culture created by the debate on banker bonuses

«I'm surprised the shadow chancellor is shouting again this week because we learned last week like bullies all over the world» — instant uproar from Tory MPs — «he can dish it out but HE CA N'T TAKE IT!»

While EDF, which is 85 % owned by the French government, is due to contribute two - thirds of the projected # 18bn cost of the project, the final third would come from the Chinese General Nuclear Power Group — a deal inked by David Cameron and President Xi Jinping during last October's state visit, following groundwork laid by George Osborne when chancellor.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls is keeping up the pressure on George Osborne to retreat after last Thursday's «disappointing» Commons debate.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, appearing on the same programme, said people would view the potentially # 17 million payout for the former Barclays chief executive, who resigned last Tuesday over the Libor scandal, as «totally outrageous».

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio will officially announce tomorrow.

«The chancellor hasn't answered a single oral question in the last year - isn't his behaviour typical of this government?

The former shadow chancellor, one of the highest profile victims of last year's Conservative election victory, will go from allegations of being too left wing to allegations of having two left feet on the show.

De Blasio and Carranza entered City Hall together for an announcement that was scheduled to take place in the Blue Room, the same spot where, last Thursday, a testy and embarrassed mayor fielded questions from reporters about the televised rejection by his first choice for chancellor, Carvalho.

House prices were expected to be top of the agenda, with committee members considering new powers handed to them last week by the chancellor, George Osborne, to curb house price rises.

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Wednesday.

Shortly after criticizing de Blasio for not testifying at a second mayoral control hearing in New York City late last month, Sen. Carl Marcellino appeared to doze off briefly while his colleagues questioned city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.

Last week, the chancellor pledged to invest # 20m in schemes to support people on the brink of homelessness and end rough - sleeping by 2027.

Banking giant HSBC's announcement that its profits more than doubled last year reinforces the need to tax bankers» bonuses, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said.

Millions of teachers, NHS staff and police officers lost their automatic annual pay hikes in last month's budget, another attempt by the chancellor to force Miliband to decide on his position.

Balls wound up Osborne throughout the last parliament with his constant heckling of the chancellor, turning himself into a hate figure for many Tory MPs in the process.

The shrinking, uncomfortable feeling which the chancellor felt when he attended meetings of European finance ministers last week sums up the real reason for the approach revealed in full today.

Vince Cable denied he was pushing for the chancellor's job today, despite pointedly saying he would be good at it last night.

This was David Cameron's first opportunity to bash Ed Balls since the shadow chancellor's autumn statement howler last week.

George Osborne predicted the nation would be # 10bn in the black by 2019 - 20 in his last budget as chancellor.

While his successor was handling the Budget fallout former chancellor George Osborne handed out the gongs at the annual political cartoon of the year awards last night.

The Arizona - born chancellor's credentials include a masters in education; work at four school districts, including Houston during last year's Hurricane Harvey disaster; and he speaks both Spanish and English — a key during Mayor Bill de Blasio's search for replacing Carmen Fariña, the departing chancellor.

And shadow chancellor John McDonnell raised the prospect last month of the party securing a «significant victory «in Hillingdon.

Director general Tony Hall last week sought reassurances from the chancellor, George Osborne, that so - called «top - slicing» would not take place, having considered the prospect ruled out under the funding agreement struck with the Treasury last year.

He set up Article 50 Associates last year with Jon Hudson, who was an adviser to the former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie.

Carmen Fariña, who has served as chancellor for the last four years, will formally announce her resignation on Thursday.

Critics in the House of Lords savaged the policy, announced by the former chancellor George Osborne last year, as «ill - thought - out and unfair».

Having spent the whole of last year being hammered for providing a tax cut for millionaires, the chancellor may be feeling like he wants to dodge the bullet this time around.

Balls called on Osborne to continue the U-turns from March's Budget, the chancellor's last major setpiece event, by reversing the cut in the top rate of income tax from 45p back to 50p and scrapping tax rises for pensioners.

«I can't remember the last time I bought a pasty at Greggs,» the chancellor admitted to Labour MP John Mann, who suggested that was part of the problem with his approach to the economy.

Last night's speech saw the chancellor go beyond his normal Treasury responsibilities into the world of education, just as his speech on terrorism and security on Monday infringed considerably on the jurisdiction of home secretary John Reid.

Lagunju, who represents Oriire State Constituency, while speaking during the plenary on Tuesday after the committee to investigate the lingering crises presented its report, opined that «the only solution to the crisis is for Tinubu to wade in, as the chancellor of the institution, with a view of finding a lasting solution to the issue of indebtedness of the two owner states, Oyo and Osun».

But the poll contained similar criticisms of the chancellor's Budget last week, with 49 % saying the scrapping of pensioner tax allowance was unfair and 53 % saying the reduction of the top rate of tax to 45 % would do «nothing» to help the economy.

In January, chancellor Gordon Brown admitted that the meeting of the G8 Gleneagles last summer, which was accompanied by mass protests across the world, had failed to make poverty history in the way he had hoped.