Sentences with phrase «held to account»

Vanila XCOM 2 was a tough, lean survival game that held you to account with a doomsday countdown.

They're not evil or malicious — these issues are more often than not a business decision, as hard as that is to swallow and as irrational / uncompassionate as they seem, as the publishers are held to account by their investors.

If the recommended / chosen inspectors eff - up, then the inspectors «and» the lawyers can be held to account from both a legal and moral perspective.

The agency currently requests reimbursements from certain large lenders, but the commissioner brings up a strong point that all FHA lenders should be held to account for failing to observe FHA requirements for approving loans.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said schools where «a failure to reach potential» is masked by a «decent local reputation» would be held to account.

At present, if the improvement service provided by the RSC does not work, the academy trust or local council overseeing an underperforming school will still be held to account by Ofsted and the commissioner, who could forcibly convert or rebroker the school to another trust.

The ways in which schools in England are held to account is at the very heart of whether our education system delivers what we, as a society, need it to or not.

Chair of the Education Committee Neil Carmichael said: «Some academies are delivering great results for their pupils, but in progressing to a fully academised system we must ensure all schools are properly held to account for their performance.

PPP schools should be held to account in the same way as other public schools.

The National Association of Head Teachers said authorising absences was «difficult territory for schools because they are so severely held to account for attendance figures».

Mr Hobby added: «Schools do need to be held to account, but inspectors should look at more than just data.

«They are afraid of being held to account.

Which means that state governments should be held to account for providing high - quality resources and opportunities for all children, regardless of where they live.

We take swift action when concerns are raised — academies and free schools can not hide from their financial responsibilities and are held to account for their actions.»

She continued, «Accountability shouldn't come down to «test - and - punish,» and classroom teachers shouldn't be the only ones held to account.

«We have consistently argued against schools being held to account for raw data alone, and this was something I raised with the committee when giving evidence earlier in the year.

Parliament's education select committee is now starting a inquiry into how RSCs will be held to account, and will also explore their relationship to Ofsted, individual schools and local communities.

The way schools are held to account will be investigated by a new independent commission that seeks to find a «credible alternative» to the system of inspections and league tables — and Ofsted and the DfE have promised to get involved.

Part of what has made Indianapolis's mayor - sponsored charter effort so successful is that schools are held to account.

Charter opponents are threatened by the growth of independent public schools that offer a promise of performance, are held to account by contract and open to parents by choice.

The letter said the government continued to believe schools should be held to account and that pupil progress should be measured.

But they need to be held to account for what every child is doing in the school and the breadth of the curriculum, not just narrowing it down to English and maths.»

«Nothing has changed with regard to schools being held to account for the proportion of children achieving a strong pass and we are working with Ofqual to support teachers as we implement the new system.»

«Of course schools need to be held to account.

The figures come amid ongoing concerns that young people are being put under increasing pressure to achieve good grades, as schools are held to account for each year group's performance.

A good article which clearly calls out the necessity for a system's approach to education and the need for all education players to be held to account for learning outcomes.

A Conservative party spokesman said that decisions about what was in the curriculum should lie in the hands of those «who can be held to account by parents at the ballot box — not unelected bureaucrats as proposed by the Lib Dems».

«But it is only right that the small number of academies that are struggling to stretch their pupils are held to account to ensure all pupils fulfil their potential.

Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said academies needed to be held to account more effectively.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «Schools will be held to account either for ensuring all children make sufficient progress from reception to the end of primary school, or for ensuring at least 85 % achieve the expected level in reading, writing and maths.

Commenting on the release of the KPIs, Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «It is extremely worrying to see that this is included as a performance indicator, even if it is only one of many indicators of the way commissioners are being held to account.

The only answer that makes sense to us is for a state to make sure that its math and reading standards are clear, coherent, and rigorous; that its tests line up with those standards; that its schools and educators are held to account for getting better results in terms of real student learning; and that research is done to examine the effectiveness of various curricular products.

Accountability shouldn't come down to «test - and - punish,» and classroom teachers shouldn't be the only ones held to account.

Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the late filing of accounts was «another demonstration that academies are not being properly held to account for the use of public money».

Such districts should be held to account — but only if OCR can identify compelling evidence that their officials intended to discriminate against certain groups of students.

All academy trusts are held to account in their capacity as charities by the Charities Commission.

Charter schools, the one type of public school that is actually being held to account by authorizing bodies, are now threatened with closure if they don't perform to standards other public schools can safely ignore.

«We want to examine the role and governance of MATs and ensure we have a system which ensures these academy chains deliver excellent performance while being properly held to account.»

Which would also mean that implementation of the Common Core by states and districts could be distorted in the direction of the soft stuff that will be on the tests and for which schools and educators will be held to account.

And it's no secret that educators are less happy being «held to account» for pupil results in the midst of all this change than they were under the old standards and tests (though many were plenty cranky on this topic before the standards changed!).

It coincides with the greatest pressure we have ever seen for those schools to produce results — and for their leaders to be held to account for those results.

The majority of providers were legitimate, he said, but those who were not should be held to account.

They are being held to account for their schools» performance.

Powers will be extended to address failing and «coasting» academies as well as local authority schools, with Morgan claiming that underperforming academies should be «held to account».

Schools would be held to account for getting greater proportions of their students — and greater proportions of key subgroups — to «proficiency» in reading and math.

It's as if only the soldiers and not the officers are being held to account for winning or losing the battle.

Only in a world in which ineptitude is not held to account and no one cares could this work.

Instead Red Sparrow is altogether more grim, painting an amoral world of casual violence and abuse where actions have no consequences, criminals aren't held to account, human life is expendable and everyone would sell out everyone else given half the chance.

And, in a postscript, he wonders why nobody is being held to account for these excesses — from the desiccation of the Aral Sea to Chernobyl — that have left millions of people, as well as the landscape, maimed.