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Sustainable Energy Ireland's House of Tomorrow grant aid scheme has been successful in driving up standards in Irish residential building.

But David Laws, the schools minister, said «good teaching assistants» were «essential to driving up standards in the classroom and helping students fulfil their full potential».

When we consider driving up standards in schools, investment in technology always appears to take centre stage.

Their analysis showed that opening a new free school in an area helps to drive up standards in both primary and secondary underperforming schools nearby, particularly in higher poverty schools and schools that are under capacity.

Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said: «This report provides us with valuable evidence about performance in our schools which can help us continue to drive up standards in education.

Plans also include a new # 4million fund to develop new ways to help children with additional needs move from alternative provision into mainstream education or special schools and measures to drive up standards in alternative provision education settings.

Research suggests that providing well - balanced, nutritious school meals not only improves children's general health but also drives up standards in classrooms, with well - nourished pupils showing clear academic benefits.

Prospect is also keen to engage with the National Schools Commissioner about his strategy to drive up standards in schools.

Reviving them will suck political time, effort and energy away from the existing plans to open new academies and drive up standards in parts of the country where schools have been falling behind.

On free schools, Mr Gove has said he wants «the dynamism that characterises the best independent schools to drive up standards in the state sector».

Ms Williams said: «This report provides us with valuable evidence about performance in our schools which can help us continue to drive up standards in education.

The Welsh Government said regardless of the Pisa results, it would «remain absolutely focussed» on following the «best international evidence in order to continue to drive up standards in our schools».

A key policy to drive up standards in numeracy and literacy in Wales makes «modest» progress, two years after being introduced.

«We are in competition (with other schools), but we also talk to each other and support each other through the local authority, and I really think it's helped drive up standards in the whole of Hackney whether maintained schools or academies.»

An investigation into a «top - performing» academy trust given government cash to drive up standards in northern schools has revealed it breached rules over payments to trustees — but...

It might confirm what lots of people suspect - that there are nowhere near enough competent academy chains to drive up standards in the way the government wants.

«It is a way of positioning sixth - form colleges to drive up standards in schools, to bring their business expertise.»

The education secretary said academies and free schools have helped by «promoting new ideas and approaches, and helping to drive up standards in other local schools as a result».

«We are also building Free Schools and letting the most popular schools expand to meet demand from parents and we are intervening to drive up standards in weak primaries across the country which have thousands of empty places simply because parents don't want to send their children to them.»

We make no apology for introducing reforms to drive up standards in schools.

The government still has not given any consideration as to how to drive up standards in those schools where academisation has not brought about any improvement.

Following a poor set of results in 2010, the then Education Minister Leighton Andrews introduced a series of measures designed to drive up standards in Welsh schools.

New teachers in Wales have been urged to take a new postgraduate course which the education minister claims will help drive up standards in schools.

Plans also include a new # 4 million fund to develop new ways to help children with additional needs move from alternative provision in to mainstream education or special schools and measures to drive up standards in alternative provision education settings.

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But by combining those standards, which drive up the price of insurance, with a reduction in financial assistance and mandates to carry coverage, it's hard to see how poor people who are more likely to lack insurance will be able to afford it anymore.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Regardless of the standard of his general play, he usually finds a way, and against City at Old Trafford he almost looked like his old self again; from back when Sir Alex Ferguson used to rely on him to be everywhere, covering for United's lack of a midfield, driving the team on from deep and generally making up for the lack of investment in the squad after the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

set a standard in facilities and quality of care to increase client awareness and act as a catalyst to drive up the quality provided by all service providers

As the Bank of England has pointed out, higher VAT, higher tuition fees and the sharp fall in the value of sterling since 2010 have driven up inflation and reduced the living standards of British families.

At the top of that agenda is democratic localism, which advocates strong local government taking big decisions on public services in response to local demand and in order to drive up standards.

Education secretary Michael Gove explains his latest bid to drive up teaching standards in an interview with the Mail newspaper:

Republicans, who believe the issue could prove toxic in an environment in which voters already deeply distrust government and exasperated with insider - driven politics, have pursued a strategy to knock Democratic Senate candidates off balance and advance a larger narrative that the Obama administration has failed to live up to the high ethical standards and transparency it promised voters two years ago.

«At a time when typical wages have flatlined but prices have continued rising, concerted action to drive up levels of pay for low earners is an essential component in the improvement of living standards,» IPPR's senior research fellow Kayte Lawton said.

As the Carruthers report explains, innovation in the NHS has the capacity both to save lives and drive up standards of care in the health service, but also to promote efficiency and reduce the cost burden of treatments and procedures.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind tStandard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind tstandard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind tstandard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

As the PAC has recognised we have made significant progress in implementing free schools, which are driving up educational standards and giving pupils from all backgrounds the chance to achieve academic excellence.

«David Miliband declared the death of New Labour yesterday as he officially launched his leadership campaign.Speaking overlooking the Tyne in his South Shields constituency, he promised tougher policies to tackle anti-social behaviour and drive up classroom standards.

Information published this week shows that the Welsh Government's flagship scheme to drive up standards of rented accommodation in Wales, Rent Smart Wales, is still lagging behind.

Becoming compliant with the proposed ruling could, according to one HHS official, drive up the cost of doing large - scale trials or surveys because of the extra work involved in ensuring that projects meet the standards required.

This compression of the gas drives up the temperature of the gas in the brown dwarf, the hottest of which can get as warm as a standard operating kitchen oven.

The national push for rigorous, measurable standards in elementary and secondary education is no passing fad, because it is being driven by inexorable economic forces that are ratcheting up educational requirements for American workers, concludes a report released last week.

Caroline Wright, Director General, BESA said: «EdTech has tremendous transformative potential to drive up standards of education in classrooms globally.

Secondly, whilst in more recent times there is more emphasis on the need for places, in fact the genesis of the idea behind the free school programme was to allow those who could demonstrate they could run schools successfully (be they parent groups, foundations and sponsors or indeed other schools) to be allowed to do so in an attempt to use competition to drive up standards.

Accelerating the growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) «is key to driving up standards» in the North, according to an independent review commissioned by the government.

School financing policies should be driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in student achievement, bringing teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.

The benefits of effective procurement practices includes: Financial savings that can then be re-invested in your priorities for driving up standards; goods or services purchased are fit for purpose; suppliers deliver (and continue to deliver) as agreed; legal and financial obligations are complied with.

Caroline Wright, Director General, BESA said: CPD: «EdTech has tremendous transformative potential to drive up standards of education in classrooms globally.

The education secretary's speech comes days after he confirmed further plans to drive up education standards across England and increase opportunity in the areas that need it most.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

Due to new Apprenticeship standards, there is an improvement in skills, behaviour and knowledge levels within the Apprenticeship schemes, as well as increased requirements for maths, English and ICT which in turn, drive up the quality within the sector.