Sentences with phrase «life assurance sold»

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In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

I claim a bit of credit for this term, because it was while I was engaged by a financial services regulator and assisting them with a disciplinary investigation into selling by a life assurance company (the regulator was LAUTRO — those with long memories may remember it, and its successor the Personal Investment Authority) it was decided that this term was the best to describe the test we were applying to selling practices.

If someone is reluctant to purchase life insurance, this assurance could be the selling point that makes the sale.

We offer a competitive range of employer paid benefits and (depending upon your location) this may include: a generous holiday entitlement, pension scheme, life assurance, interest free season ticket loans, health schemes, gym membership, the ability to buy or sell more holiday and tax efficient schemes like Cycle to Work.

Advising on or selling investments such as equities, life assurance policies, collective investment schemes and individual or stakeholder pensions are all controlled functions.

We offer a competitive suite of employer paid benefits which include a generous holiday entitlement, pension scheme, life assurance, private medical / dental cover, the ability to buy and sell holidays and interest free season ticket loans.