Sentences with phrase «largest education authority»

The Andalucía Education Department was evaluating new ways to promote foreign language learning, including more collaboration between different international institutions, with the objective of improving the language skills of both teachers and students in the state education system in Andalucía, the largest education authority in Spain.

In Essex, the second largest education authority area in the country (after Kent), parents saw the number of penalties issued treble (from 909 in 2014 - 15 to 3,165 in 2016 - 17) for unauthorised term time holidays.

In Birmingham, the largest education authority, 15 out of 386 schools, 4 % of the total, will see funding increase.

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The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

Lund University Commissioned Education makes the resources of Scandinavia's largest university available to companies, organisations and authorities aiming to develop their business and staff.

The state's School Budget Review Committee voted last month to give the 11,000 - student district authority to spend an additional $ 7.5 million in state education funds this school year — the state's largest school bailout ever.

New York «had set forth a clear and comprehensive statement of its vision,» wrote one reviewer, who noted that the «ambitious agenda» would be helped by «the extensive authority over public education held by The Board of Regents» and «the large network of 37 District Superintendents who oversee Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).»

Schools are becoming independent entities and local authorities are rapidly being replaced by academy clusters as key players in the delivery of education across large swathes of the country.

D.C. Council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), chairman of the education committee, also questioned whether the chancellor needs chartering authority in order to provide schools with more flexibility.

Although the Israeli Ministry of Education currently exercises a large measure of control over local schools, the picture presented by Israeli education is not one of top - down control and clear lines of aEducation currently exercises a large measure of control over local schools, the picture presented by Israeli education is not one of top - down control and clear lines of aeducation is not one of top - down control and clear lines of authority.

CFPB TO SCRUTINIZE LOAN SERVICERS: The final rule issued today will give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau authority over the largest non-bank student loan servicers for federal loans, including Sallie Mae, American Education Services, Nelnet, Great Lakes, as well as ACS, Mohela and EdFinancial.

«The Chief Statistician has concluded that we are unable to publish the «Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools 2011 - 12: Wales and England Comparison» bulletin this year due to the current changing education policy landscape in England and the large numbers of schools moving to academy status in - year and therefore out of local government control,» the spokesperson added.

To improve education in America, the way education stakeholders and the public at large perceive authority and influence should change, recognizing that teachers have content and pedagogical expertise that administrators often don't.

Nearly a decade ago, the federal government adopted the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which served as the largest expansion of federal education authority in our nation's history.

While you're there, visit Reef HQ next door, the world's largest living coral reef aquarium and the education centre for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

There seems to be little justification for this, except that community schools are (by and large) founded and funded by an emanation of the state (their local education authority (LEA)-RRB- and the others were usually founded by a charity, albeit that all of them are now almost entirely funded by «emanations of the state».