Sentences with phrase «national minimum standards»

At present the South African Government is drawing up national minimum standards for organic agriculture.

In contrast, national minimum standards tied to year levels do little to challenge all students to higher levels of achievement.

The decision to move NAPLAN online provides a unique opportunity to shift the focus of assessment from common year - level tests and low national minimum standards to the monitoring of each student's progress against challenging personal targets.

The Department for Education should also improve the supply of quality school leaders into special schools, and replace current national minimum standards for residential special schools with new national quality standards.

CSA 2000 provides for central government to issue national minimum standards (NMS) applicable to the various care settings registrable under that Act.

It plans to increase the visibility of community sentences so offenders «pay back»; provide local crime data and online maps; set national minimum standards for neighbourhood policing; and dedicate funding for community safety.

Advisors will not offer their personal opinion on issues raised, but offer advice based on the presenting problem and best practice guidelines, i.e. based on statutory guidance, national minimum standards etc. to enable the foster carer to make up their own mind about next steps.

Clarifying regulations, guidance and national minimum standards about fostering and signposting to other sources of specialist support

Ofsted also expects residential family centres to meet national minimum standards that apply to them.

Central Washington University EMS Paramedicine Program has a long history of maintaining high academic standards and skill requirements for our graduates that often exceed both state and national minimum standards for paramedic programs.

Panelists seemed to agree that a national minimum standard was acceptable, but they were not keen on establishing an across - the - board standard.

In the 2014 National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), 25 per cent of Indigenous children in Year 3 failed to meet the Year 3 national minimum standard in reading, and 30 per cent of Indigenous students in Year 9 failed to meet the Year 9 national minimum standard.

There are perceived benefits because NAPLAN purports to assess to the basic literacy and numeracy skills, and also because one of the things it measures is the national minimum standards.

So we're talking about looking at a standardised test that gives a minimum standard skillset that all students should reach, but really with the national minimum standard we're looking at 100 % of students, ultimately that would be the ideal.

The proportion of students at or below the national minimum standard (darker shading) is considerably greater for lower parental occupation groups than for higher groups.

The national minimum standards that boarding schools must meet to safeguard and protect the children in their care.

Where the national minimum standard for representation is one attorney for every 5,000 eligible clients, most of Western Washington sees ratios of one attorney for between 12,500 and 17,500 potential clients.

But to come close to the national minimum standard, Bamberger said the state needs to provide funding for 125 more attorneys, which would require an annual budget appropriation of $ 15.5 million.

The «Boarding schools: national minimum standards» apply to all other schools that provide accommodation for children.

It contains the national minimum standards for adoption issued by the Secretary of State under sections 23 and 49 of the Care Standards Act 2000.

Departmental advice containing the national minimum standards applicable to adoption agencies and adoption support agencies.

In 2008, only 63 % of year 5 Indigenous students achieved the national minimum standard for reading compared with 93 % of non-Indigenous students - a gap of 30 %.

National Minimum Standard 14.5 requires that «foster carers and prospective foster carers are given the opportunity to attend and be heard at all Panel meetings at which their approval is being discussed and to bring a supporter to panel if they wish».

The financial support should be equal to the allowances / fees provided to other foster carers within that local authority (National Minimum Standard 28.7).

NAPLAN scores in proficiency bands that are above the national minimum standard and NAPLAN scores in the top 2 proficiency bands for their year level