Sentences with phrase «given policy area»

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In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.

-- Exchange rate policy is another area where given the number of industrial and international interests involved it is hard to imagine complete delegation to an apolitical institution.

Whether you have concerns about school lunch or child nutrition happens to be a passion for you, joining your school districts local wellness policy committee could give you the opportunity to have a positive impact on school food for all of the school children in your area.

Fiona has given evidence to Government Committees on the subject of elective home education and can provide you with a clear up - to - date analysis of the key areas of elective home education practice and policy in England and Wales.

The decision to focus upon attacking Obama's foreign policy record was perhaps unwise given that this is one area in which Obama enjoys relatively broad support and in which Romney has little experience — and given his recent debacles on the international stage, even less credibility.

Informally, given their electoral mandate, mayors can also lobby national politicians on policy matters that relate to their area — a role that both previous London mayors were effective in during their terms in office.

Given that personality and style are no - go areas for Labour, the party's campaign is focusing on policy.

«Given this, it remained to be seen whether the Coalition's plans to empower local areas would be realised», said Dr Ayres, who is based at the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies.

From the University of Edinburgh website, stating their policies for Humanities and Social Sciences, among a variety of other criteria: «08 Additional credit is given to students who:... * Apply from schools in the local area (defined as City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, Scottish Borders, Fife, Falkirk and district, Clackmannanshire) and applicants from schools in the wider locality (defined as the rest of Scotland, Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Teeside, Tyne and Wear).

The lecture would have given him a fine chance to relate the free market, minimal state, individual empowerment agenda Joseph was so fond of to modern education policy, illustrating how the ideas that underpin the CPS have permeated through to Gove's own thinking in the area.

Yet, if anything, the indispensability of this text lies in the fact that five years after the first coalition government was formed since the Second World War, a wide variety of esteemed experts from Whitehall, Parliament, academia and think tanks have given their professional and intriguing assessments of the «Coalition effect» across all major policy areas.

If she did so yesterday during a speech she gave to the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI), the Guardian doesn't say so this morning, but it does report that she described marriage policy as one of the few areas of substantial difference between the Coalition partners, and said that she'd «no idea» when the promised marriage tax break would be implemented.

But in a break with past tradition, he's never been given a project or area of policy to call his own.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

In two policy areas - cutting debt and reforming welfare - considerers believe the Tories are giving the issue the right priority.

I work in the Science Policy Department of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Spanish national centre for cardiovascular research, which was established by the Spanish ministry of health as a centre of excellence to give impetus to biomedical research in this area.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

The high policy relevance of demographic change gives statisticians working in this area a unique opportunity for applied experimentation with user engagement, communication of uncertainty, and public understanding of statistics.

«This paper gives us deeper analysis to make a case for new public policy options in this area.»

Jill Carlson International Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.M.»

The above objectives give mathematical strength to policy formation within areas of high biodiversity, this is further discussed in the conclusions of the work.

The HEP curriculum is structured to provide a strong foundation in higher education administration, governance, and policy, while giving you the flexibility to dive deeply into specific areas of interest.

Board members gave themselves failing or barely passing grades in such core areas of governance as their influence on other decisionmakers, their ability to provide leadership and policy oversight, their involvement of parents and other community members, planning and...

Given the greater focus being placed on LTLT competencies in national policy frameworks, curriculum, teachers and of course, at the international level, it seems this may be an area for further development across all ten countries.

«It gives us a basis for developing new ideas, for going into policy areas, given what we know, and saying here are some new strategies worth trying.»»

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

He settles instead on a «policy of giving ample resources to local governments in low - income areas to invest in the initiatives they think best meet their needs - and holding the local governments accountable for the results.»

Although fewer principals gave the items State policies help us to accomplish our school's learning objectives and The state communicates clearly with our district about educational priorities the highest rating of «strongly agree,» both items suggest that most principals have positive views of the state «s role in these areas.

For example, the Stanford Center on Opportunity Policy in Education reported in 2009 that while research shows that 40 - 100 hours of training in a given area of professional practice is needed to produce solid results, teachers in the United States typically have about eight hours of training on a particular topic.

Superintendent Tony Smith will now create a specific plan to implement the policy (including negotiating aligned agreements with labor unions) and give school communities a greater say in how to educate their children in the areas of Budget, Curriculum, Staffing, and Schedule.

A number of key policy areas have been given to Nash, despite him being one of the more junior ministers in the department.

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly

The practicums give students opportunities to develop knowledge about particular areas of public policy and the skills of policy analysis, including the ability to communicate policy findings.

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly assume effectiveness is a stable attribute within teachers.

The education secretary told the Conservative Party Conference that the policy would aim to give children «the best start in life, no matter what their background», and would focus initially on intervention in Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, and West Somerset, before expanding to four more areas in the «coming months».

Most states, said Vargas, have given explicit support to dual enrollment for many years, and currently all but two states have relevant policies on the books, but there remains a lot of work to be done to improve state policy in this area, especially to extend dual credit opportunities to a broad range of students and not just to the highest achievers.

News of the research school forms part of a wider announcement about the next stage of the government's opportunity areas policy, which will give # 72 million to projects in 12 areas over the coming years.

The goal of this policy is to give consideration for early entrance to children who have missed the birth date cut - off by two months or less (Sept. 2 through Oct. 31), and who demonstrate superior potential readiness in intellectual, social, emotional and physical areas.

After reviewing 13 components of the new contract, an E4E — New York Teacher Policy Team gave the contract an overall grade of C, noting progress in some areas...

By 1806, when Dutch colonial power gave way to British control, the Boers had established control over large tracts of land but, being fiercely independent and taking issue with British policies, many moved deeper into the African interior settling in areas that the British would later recognize in the 1850s and 60s as independent Boer Republics - the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

And, as I have said since the beginning of this move, given that the FOMC has been willing to use crude policy tools like the Fed funds rate to try to reflate areas where credit stress is high, they will overshoot.

Items like storm - resistant roofing can also give locals a benefit in terms of home policy rates, since the area does get impacted by some types of storms.

Reputable kennels should not have a problem giving you a tour and letting you see where your pet will be staying or at least giving you a viewing window to see the boarding area if they have a «No Visitors» policy.

Even though protection from rabies is documented to last at least three years, current law in some states or areas still requires that boosters be given annually or biannually rather than the standard policy of every three years.

Donors were encouraged to give to the fund through the Calgary Foundation, which administers charitable giving in the Calgary area, and has a policy of guarding donors» identities.

Given the failure of CO2 reduction policy, should efforts be put into secondary areas in order to grow the necessary political support to make the main effort — CO2 reduction — a viable political option and eventual reality?

The last two decades have seen a progressive policy shift towards programs to give «room for rivers» (Rohde et al. 2006; Opperman et al. 2009), aimed to increase the storage space of rivers by restoring floodplains and thus reducing the flood depth by spreading floodwaters over wider areas.

Given a priority to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, it is important to further explore the drivers for the conversion of land at the frontier and to consider the effects, positive and negative, that U.S. biofuel policies could have in these areas.

It is likely that few employers» handbooks contain adequate policies and procedures relating to social media, and while at present the approach of employment tribunals is on a case - by - case basis, it will not be long before a case is before the EAT; it is likely that guidance will be given in this fraught and difficult area.