Sentences with phrase «more on autonomy»

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The head office concentrates on strategy and spending decisions, allowing mine managers more autonomy to do their jobs.

«When I started Zapier, I saw it as a way to have more autonomy in the workplace and focus on my own interests, but I still needed to know how to manage people, especially as the business grew.

Coffee shops and coworking spaces abound with freelancers plugging away on their laptops, and office spaces are increasingly empty as the best and brightest leave traditional work behind to claim more flexibility and autonomy in their jobs.

This autonomy not only leads to a more positive guest experience — a must in the ruthlessly customer - centric hospitality business — it also reduces internal bureaucracy and bestows a greater sense of empowerment on front - line workers.

As a studio owner, we are able to make our own decisions about pricing, scheduling and hiring - which allows you the feeling of autonomy you seek when embarking on a more entrepreneurial route while still having the security of knowing the company is behind you.

Other analysts questioned Apotheker's decision to spend more than $ 10 billion on the purchase of software - maker Autonomy — a price equivalent to roughly 10 times the British company's annual revenue.

Certainly it is true that the more a mechanical force acts on a thing in a purely mechanical way, the more the autonomy of the thing is diminished.

One political position customary among Jews, and often shared also among the more observant, is that of not interfering in the choices of freedom that the state makes for its citizens, reserving only to the individual conscience the right and duty of making rigorous personals choices on arguments in which the law of the state makes room for autonomy and freedom.

The higher up we go on the evolutionary ladder, the greater the complexity of the physical organism, the more conceptual autonomy we find.

Since the autonomy structure is not really autonomy — just more streamlined collusion — and still does not permit schools to give athletes monetary benefits, it will have no effect on the lawsuits.

When children run into trouble in school, either academically or in the realm of behavior, most schools respond by imposing more control on them, not less, further diminishing their fragile sense of autonomy.

I think there are a lot more nutso's in the cohort who want a planned home birth than in the cohort who requests a planned (elective) C - section — no birth is «elective», but the cohort who wants to preserve perineal strength and function while avoiding the pain of labor and the risk of labor on the baby should have their autonomy acknowledged.

Consequently, I have advised some of their kids on their college essays and counseled some of these parents on the importance of giving kids more autonomy and responsibility.

He has spoken internationally on breech and vaginal birth after cesarean section and has appeared in many documentaries, including: «More Business of Being Born», «Happy Healthy Child», «Reducing Infant Mortality», «Heads Up: The Disappearing Art of Vaginal Breech Delivery» and multiple YouTube videos discussing birth choices and respect for patient autonomy and decision making.

Sarkozy granted the universities more fiscal autonomy, which some saw as an attack on public education and the unfair enforcement of higher fees and tougher entry requirements.

Former first minister Alex Salmond attempted to get devo max on the 2014 ballot, for example, while his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, accepted the Smith Commission devolution proposals while demanding more autonomy at the same time.

American liberalism, on the other hand, because it emerged partly from Progressivism, tends to take a more utilitarian perspective on such things, viewing autonomy merely as a means to an end, the end being increasing the happiness of as many people as possible.

In April, state Senator Simcha Felder (D — Brooklyn) refused to sign off on the state budget unless yeshivas, which accept millions of dollars in government funding, were given more autonomy over curricula.

He said, «In fact, one of the amendments we have carried out on the Constitution is financial autonomy to local governments and I am sure that will go a long way in helping them to have a more transparent and accountable finance system.

Salawu called on the governor to support local government autonomy, urging him also to focus more on agriculture.

Like his predecessors, he has sought more autonomy for New York City from the state, and has tangled with the Legislature on issues that range from changing the speed limit on certain city streets to winning a minimum wage increase for the five boroughs.

Today, these insitutions want more autonomy from the government and I'm wondering how it impacts on diversity?

Others included more autonomy for the Scottish party and the reorganisation of members into branches based on Holyrood constituencies rather than Westminster constituencies.

It's unclear whether academies will work in the smaller and much more numerous primary schools — of which so far around 10 % are academies; and whether primary heads and governors have the breadth of expertise and the time to take on the responsibilities of greater autonomy.

Schools could opt to offer the same schemes, but will have more autonomy over how to do so as the Department for Education (DfE) reorganises the way it funds projects to tie in with the coalition's emphasis on localism.

Last month in «Independent Postdocs, Part 1: Gaining Early Autonomy,» we got some tips from group leaders and career advisers on how to negotiate more autonomy with your principal investigator (PI) while you are still a Autonomy,» we got some tips from group leaders and career advisers on how to negotiate more autonomy with your principal investigator (PI) while you are still a autonomy with your principal investigator (PI) while you are still a postdoc.

The strategy will give public research organizations more autonomy but also places them under closer scrutiny: in order to receive public funding, organizations must produce results that clearly make a positive impact on science or the economy.

Indian morality, for instance, focuses more on matters of purity, whereas American morality focuses on individual autonomy.

«We hear that it creates a negative environment for teachers — it forces them to stay on very strict curricula and reduces a lot of autonomy, as teachers worry less about their profession as a whole and worry more about meeting benchmarks on the exam.»

Netflix announced that it is acquiring the rights to comedian Seth Rogen, noting that he inked an agreement to «transfer full ownership of his personal autonomy to Netflix, Inc.» The bit is more or less a promotion for Rogen's upcoming comedy special, which drops on April 6th.

Many senior school business management professionals find themselves on call long after 5.00 pm, are now working across groups of schools, are responsible for a wider range of school functions and larger, more dispersed teams, and alongside greater autonomy and responsibility, face greater scrutiny and public accountability.

ESSA also gave state leaders significantly more autonomy to set policy on other questions, such as teacher evaluation, diminishing the federal government's influence over state policy.

For the most part, the Gates early - college initiative focuses on the motivation of students, hoping that greater autonomy and more challenging material will help keep them engaged and interested in school.

While giving principals increased autonomy, he also insisted on them having more accountability to parents and the community.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Schools are taking on markedly more autonomy under the academies programme, multi-academy trusts (MATs) are springing up around the country, and all the talk is now of a «self - improving and school - led system».

But if school autonomy means more flexibility at school level to think of and react on the needs of the community by crafting curriculum, teaching and assessment so that they benefit all children, then I think more autonomy can really enhance both quality and equity of education.

Particularly where there is more autonomy in local decision making, schools facing stronger accountability pressures do better on international math and science exams.

«I think people would like to see more improvement on test scores, stronger schools, and more autonomy given to those schools that are performing well.»

While the Mayor's most recent predecessor Mike Bloomberg, with Chancellor Joel Klein, used a two - pronged strategy, approaching reform both from within the system (doubling down on accountability and giving principals more autonomy) and from without (rapidly expanding school choice through charter schools), de Blasio and his Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who share what Alexander Nazaryan calls an «out - sized antipathy» towards charters, are betting the whole ball of wax on an inside job.

Of the three autonomy models, pilots are the most flexible option because their teachers, though still represented by UTLA, must sign an «elect - to - work» contract that requires them to put in more hours on the job and participate in supplementary career training.

We asked about oversight practices, what they do when problems in service delivery are uncovered, their perspectives on charter school enrollment proportionality and school autonomy, and more.

In most careers, professionals gradually gain increased autonomy over a number of years, learning from more experienced employees and progressively demonstrating their capacity to take on more significant tasks.

«It relied on the same tools as before: higher stakes, more testing, more autonomy.

The effort now spans from support for teacher leaders to sitting principals and principal supervisors and accompanied district policies providing greater autonomy to principals and more explicitly focusing the principal's role on instructional leadership.

The Conservatives call for greater autonomy for schools, whereas Labour is more focused on the teaching profession's involvement in the national curriculum than their Conservative counterparts.

It relies on a sample of U.S. public school teachers using data collected through the 1999 — 2000 Read more about Teachers» Perceptions of Autonomy, Satisfaction, Job Security, and Commitment -LSB-...]

Over time the term has become associated with technology - laden, self - paced learning, preferably on a device, with little adult teaching and much more student autonomy.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

This interest coalesced in a major report by the Ministry of Education's committee on school autonomy and school - based management, which proposed sweeping changes to allow schools more freedom.