Sentences with phrase «international benchmarking standards»

It is currently undergoing an indepentent third - party assessment to ensure it is in compliance with our international benchmark standards.

Not exact matches

Global stock benchmark provider MSCI has decided to delay including stocks listed in mainland China in its widely followed Emerging Markets Index, saying China has to take further steps toward making its market more accessible and closer to international standards.

At that time, they tracked the performance of a broad - based benchmark like the Standard & Poor's 500 index, all U.S. stocks or international stock markets.

To support this rapid growth, NSF International provides auditing and certification services to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)- benchmarked standards such as SQF, BRC, IFS and FSSC 22000.

According to Standard and Poor's Global Platts benchmark for Gasoline and Gasoil, prices of both products recorded increments on the international fuel market.

«Best Practice Framework is good benchmarking tool for Fracture Liaison Services worldwide: New review finds Capture the Fracture Best Practice Framework helps raise standards, reinforce international guidelines, and identify challenges common to FLS in different health - care systems.»

«Substantially fewer Indigenous students achieve the TIMSS Intermediate international benchmark — the proficient standard for Australia — than their non-Indigenous peers.

The President also called on parents to insist that states and school districts provide ways of showing how children are doing compared to national standards and international benchmarks.

But whatever one thinks of NAEP's definition of proficiency, nothing in Harvey's article begins to touch on the central point of our essay: U.S. states, by committing themselves to implement Common Core State Standards, have promised to set standards benchmarked at international levels, while in fact they have put into place actual standards at diverse — and embarrassingly low — proficiency levels.

«In the United States, now we're talking a lot about international competition, internationally benchmarked standards and so on.

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

We also used international benchmarking to judge the quality of the Common Core standards, and the results are surprising both for mathematics and for [ELA].

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

«International benchmarking was one of the things that was advertised as a hugely important feature of the Common Core,» Evers told a panel of Indiana lawmakers tasked with reviewing the new standards.

She also commented on the mediocre quality of Common Core's English language arts / reading standards in grades 6 - 12 and their lack of international benchmarking:

Eventually, those characteristics turned into what Schmidt and other researchers called the «A + standard» — an international benchmark countries could use to see how their own standards stacked up.

They are benchmarked to international standards to guarantee that our students are competitive in the emerging global marketplace.»

The legislation strikes references to Common Core and requires the state board of education to adopt what it calls «college and career readiness» standards that meet national and international benchmarks and comply with federal standards while maintaining Indiana's sovereignty... Some critics of the board of education say the standards they are developing hew too closely to Common Core.

By international standards, schools in England are relatively well - provided for in terms of science labs, but our school survey confirms that many schools in England are falling short of achieving world - class practical science measured by our benchmarks.

For instance, «internationally benchmarked» actually meant no more than that the committees that wrote the Common Core standards looked at the standards in countries that score well on international tests.

Only a very small percentage of actively managed Canadian, US and international equity funds beat their benchmarks over the last five years, according to Standard & Poor's.

International Rivers monitors climate - earmarked funds such as the Green Climate Fund to prevent large dams from entering project pipelines, promotes the use of strong social and environmental standards and technical benchmarks, and pushes climate finance away from a business - as - usual approach towards more resilient water and energy solutions.

In determining the scope of a right or obligation, Tribunals have often looked as a benchmark to international or comparative standards.

Similarly, the Tribunal in Toto v. Lebanon stated that «[t] he fair and equitable treatment standard of international law does not depend on the perception of the frustrated investor, but should use public international law and comparative domestic public law as a benchmark» (para. 166).

There are many hospitals in the city that follow globally benchmarked standards of medical, nursing and operating protocols, and hence it is one of the preferred healthcare destinations for international patients.

As stated for some time now, community controlled models of care are well documented as the best service delivery model to support improved health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and through investing in quality improvement processes that benchmark our services and the care provided against international standards, continues to build credibility in the community controlled model of care.

International standards and developments merit close attention because, generally speaking, the level of knowledge and awareness of these matters in Australia is not high, and because international experience can be helpful in informing the implementation of benchmarking in the domestInternational standards and developments merit close attention because, generally speaking, the level of knowledge and awareness of these matters in Australia is not high, and because international experience can be helpful in informing the implementation of benchmarking in the domestinternational experience can be helpful in informing the implementation of benchmarking in the domestic situation.