Sentences with phrase «liberal education system»

Helen Flynn sets out the principles of a progressive, social liberal education system in this discussion paper.

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B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

It isn't the liberals that are gutting the education system.

«Only relatively late were the more rational branches of education added... and the system of liberal arts, invented...; finally philosophy was added,» [12] above all, from the second century on, «divine Plato.»

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Liberal Democrats went on a full media offensive yesterday in an attempt to show they are against the «Torification» of the schools system, after the education secretary confirmed he would replace Ofsted's chair Sally Morgan when the contract expires this autumn.

British values, a liberal education and an overarching respect of society are just some of the virtues our education system offers young people around the world.

The liberal Democrat insisted to the State Senate, which Republicans control through a narrow majority, on the importance of keeping the local education system routed through Gracie Mansion.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams has since implemented Professor Diamond's recommendations and created the most generous student finance system in the UK.

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Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrats Shadow Education Minister, has called on the new Education Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educatioEducation Minister, has called on the new Education Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educatioEducation Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educationeducation system.

That is why the Welsh Liberal Democrat plans offer a sustainable and affordable early education and childcare system for all right from the start.

However, questions certainly need to be asked about liberal approaches to education, particularly the promotion of moral pluralism in the state school system.

But education policy in Britain over the past fifteen years has jettisoned the ideals of liberal education, upon which Orr has based his proposals, replacing them with a system in which the student is merely a unit of input / output.

Both conservatives and liberals support strengthening the education and training system to ensure that young adults will have the kind of opportunities that will motivate them to avoid early parenthood and make marriage more likely.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, attacked Conservative education policy for an obsession with a «tiny handful» of free schools at the expense of «how you properly finance 24,000 schools across the whole school system».

In a democratic society people are free to be as conservative or liberal as their intelligence and conscience lead, but institutions built to nurture and sustain such a society are not, nor are their programs.Whether we wish to admit it or not, every education system tries to produce a certain kind of human being, attempts to develop in people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain ways.

The schools minister, setting out Liberal Democrat ideas, said parents and teachers would have much greater confidence in an education system with less «political interference».

He said the «best way to deliver on liberal values is to get behind Scotland's liberal force», and called for a pupil premium to help reverse decline in a «once leading education system».

Liberals are correct: She represents a radical counter to traditional public education systems.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.