Sentences with phrase «introduced social reforms»

On the plus side, he introduced social reforms that enhance women's opportunities and relaxed restrictions on cultural expression.

During the same period it has opposed, delayed and sought to reject almost all of the steps taken by former Labour governments to introduce social reforms, from the inception of the NHS to any changes to the House of Lords itself.

Not exact matches

This introduced the office of the Police and crime commissioner in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, again using the supplementary vote.

The price of what small sums will be given to Ukraine from the EU or, more likely the IMF, will be systemic reform — energy price rises, the ending of state subsidies for industries, and the cutting of state social benefits (among others), all of which will be politically catastrophic for whatever government introduces them.

17) Education How can education be improved or reformed without introducing selection, or increasing social segregation?

When Liberals next claim that they care more than you, remind them that their party opposed almost every social reform introduced by those very same one nation conservatives.

But by far the biggest reform introduced by Daley and Paul Vallas, chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001, was the education equivalent of just say no: ending the practice of social promotion.

And in 1991 the Social Democratic party was replaced by a center - right coalition, which, according to The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, began to introduce «sweeping, market - oriented reforms in public education.»

Conservatives think it's a problem to include social justice issues in the reform movement, because it threatens to splinter coalitions by introducing divisive racial and social issues.

The main objective of the reform is to introduce formal subjects like English, Mathematics, Pakistan Studies, Social Studies and General Science at the primary and secondary levels.

The report reads: «There is no evidence that reforming school structures, either by continuing the roll out of the academies programme or by introducing new grammar schools, by itself will provide an answer to England's entrenched social mobility problem.

Nevertheless, we need to introduce more social, economic and political variables that further illuminate more relevant quality of life impacts that school closure and other reforms can have on a community.

The Indonesian government has also introduced measures to protect local livelihoods, with plans for social forestry across 12.7 million hectares of land and reforms that will provide nine million hectares of land to communities.

This approach will not lend itself to the reform of every single of the many contentious issues, in particular not to the isolated reform of specific substantive investment protection standards; but it may work for taking care of other systemic matters that can be dealt with independently of substantive protection standards, such as introducing corporate social responsibility or creating an appeals facility for investment treaty awards.

Following these consultations, the Australian Government introduced the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 (Cth)(Welfare Reform Bill) into Parliament on 25 November 2009.

Under the NDIS — that has been described as the most significant social reform since Medicare was introduced in 1975 — Australians under 65 with severe disabilities are given funding packages to purchase chosen supports.