Sentences with phrase «defining national goals»

Marks, founder of the London - based Centre for Well - Being, sets out an ingenious new way of defining national goals — and in the process reveals five ways people can nurture their own happiness.

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The broad goals of the our program are defined by the Standing Education Committee of the National Board of Directors and are outlined in the National Education Policy.

They defined national economic goals and encouraged trade that supported these goals.

To project realistic goals for the society of the future in both its national and global dimensions, to nourish a consciousness embodying the ideas, ideals, and life - styles appropriate to the emerging society — these define basic tasks to which the public ministry of the church should be directed.

It is our goal that all health professionals who provide maternity care in home and birth center settings have a license that is based on national certification that includes defined competencies and standards for education and practice.

Adopted by parliamentary majority, this declaration must be posted up in all public administrative units and defines such joint national goals as «work, home, family, health and order».

A proposal to study a mysterious object, with no guarantee that the effort will pay off at the end, is not very appealing to agencies like the National Science Foundation, which expect well - defined goals and concrete results from the research projects they support.

The center's goal is to restore vision to some portion of the 65 million people worldwide — about 1 percent of the world population — considered to be legally blind, which the National Federation of the Blind defines as a central visual acuity of 20 / 200 or less in the stronger eye, even when aided by a corrective lens.

Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The panel, which was established by the National Conference of State Legislatures, recommends that states define a set of clear goals for higher education, hold institutions accountable...

Responsible for elaborating and defining their pedagogical goals within the framework of the national curriculum.

Wallace awarded grants to the Southern Regional Education Board and the Education Development Center (EDC) to help LEAD districts build greater capacity to define and realize specific leadership goals; evaluate progress; create new resources and tools to improve professional practice of principals, superintendents and others in leadership positions; and help form a national network enabling LEAD districts to share knowledge more effectively with each other and with many others.

A. On May 4, 2007 the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air - Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Architecture 2030, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), supported by representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy, agreed to define the baseline starting point for their common target goals as the national average / median energy consumption of existing U.S. commercial buildings as reported by the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS).

This analytical document presents the overall target of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to support Vanuatu in achieving the goal defined in the National Energy Road Map (NERM), namely to provide all households access to electricity in Vanuatu.

As the Occupy Movement works on plans for a national, collaborative convention to define its goals, it is demonstrating in its very structure that it understands the collaborative future that is emerging.

Sometimes the international level defines general goals, leaving it up to the national level to choose the means.

70 % of career - minded professionals don't know what they want next career-wise, and since 1992 Career Solutions Group has supported over 2,500 talented, motivated professionals to define motivating career paths and goals using career - change processes that have been recognized by the National Career Development Association for its excellence.

Defined as a «tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals,» her research has correlated grit with educational attainment, grade - point average in Ivy League undergrads, retention in West Point cadets, and rank in the US National Spelling Bee.