Sentences with phrase «of pilot programmes»

Despite the overall negative results of the pilots, Kevan Collins, the foundation's chief executive, said: «The three evaluations of pilot programmes contain nuggets of information about teachers» changing practice.

My job there was leading the review of the teacher standards in Scotland, and leading the implementation of the pilot programmes of professional update.

Almost 400 pupils from 14 schools across England have been praised by Nick Gibb for their progress in learning Mandarin, as part of a pilot programme to help them get ahead in the global jobs market.

Oil and gas giant British Petroleum has partnered with Tesla to install a storage battery at one of its subsidiaries» wind farms in South Dakota, US, as part of a pilot programme which could see the firm further embrace battery storage.

Within the scope of the International Standards on drug use prevention and following the outstanding results with the implementation of the Strengthening Families Programme 10 - 14 in the South East European region, additional evidence based drug use prevention programme was presented to Ministry of Education and Sport of the Government of Albania for its further piloting and evaluating its effectiveness as one of the anticipated results of the pilot programme.

Not exact matches

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (ChinaClear) and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (HKSCC) are preparing to launch a pilot programme - Shanghai - Hong Kong Stock Connect - for establishing mutual stock market access between Hong Kong and mainland China.

Five pilot areas - Blackburn, Bradford, Peterborough, Walsall and the London borough of Waltham Forest - will develop local integration plans allowing new strategies to be tested as the programme develops.

We are currently working with the Youth Sport Trust to develop the formats and material to be used in a pilot introduction during the Summer term - with the expectation of being fully launched into the programme in September.

Work with «identified PCTs» to pilot new methods of engaging mothers and fathers in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, in particular to ensure that fathers are involved in the reviews which are at the heart of the programme.

• Recognising the importance of fathers» workforce participation to child support compliance, the Australian Child Support Agency is piloting programmes that address fatherhood issues both in workplace settings and in government programmes for the unemployed.

This report provides an overview of data collected on the reach and quality of nutrition programmes during the pilot year.

The vast majority of badgers killed in both pilot culls were by government employed trap teams, with higher costs than the Welsh government vaccination programme.

Bradford is the home of Morrisons, and it is only right that the programme is piloted here first before a national roll out across five more centres.

This brings us to the key issue of the overall costs of the pilot culls and a national rollout programme for badger culling.

Miracle, a student pilot is having his eyes on becoming a full fledge pilot just as he had hinted before in the course of the 85 day programme.

Lord Wei is a serial social enterpreneur, having been part of the founding team of Teach First and establishing the Shaftesbury partnership, which piloted the National Citizen Service programme.

They confirmed that following the collapse of the pilot cull last year, many farmers lost confidence in the government's ability to deliver a legal culling programme against strong public opposition and decided to take the law into their own hands and illegally gas badgers on their farms.

«According to Akande, in 8 of the nine pilot States, this process had taken place at least 2 years ago under a programme supported by the World Bank under an Agreement entered into directly with the State Governments, on the YESSO project.

«In addition to the nine pilot States, and with the release of funds for the programmes, the CBT model has now commenced in other States.

The three - day training programme, which commenced on 21st October and ends today, is particularly important because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would be piloting its new initiative of transmitting results electronically (e-transmission) from Polling Units.

The Federal Government too has adopted the programme, running as pilot in 14 states already; with the possibility of all 36 states buying into the idea.

China's banking regulator has revealed data for the first time on a group of five privately owned banks that Beijing approved in 2014 as part of a closely watched pilot programme.

The governor asserted that the plethora of development initiatives, especially the Social Security Scheme and the Youth Volunteer Programmes, which his administration introduced, attracted the World Bank to Ekiti as pilot state for its Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO).

Gerry Robinson, the management guru who once tried to «fix the NHS», bemoaned the lack of piloting contained in Andrew Lansley's NHS plan on the Today programme last year.

Elsevier has since taken steps to prevent reviewer fraud, including implementing a pilot programme to consolidate accounts across 100 of its journals.

She is running a pilot programme in parts of the UK that will issue # 200 of shopping vouchers to mothers who breastfeed for six months

It commissioned Martin's review of foresight programmes around the world, a pilot exercise and a detailed plan for implementing the British programme.

D31 Elements of Evaluation This report presents a series of findings emerging from the experiences gathered by Pencil's fourteen pilot projects in carrying out educational programmes at the intersection between formal and informal learning environments and methodologies.

Now, the Facebook - owned image platform has announced that it is opening the pilot programme to thousands of US retailers in the apparel, jewellery and beauty markets.

The cost of that pilot was more than three times the standard TV fare, but since the success of the show, networks have been a little more giving to promising programmes.

We are piloting a number of partnership programmes across the country where a new physical education offer, alongside a whole school approach to wellbeing is generating promising evidence of impact.

Initially operating as a pilot programme, the initiative will commence by the end of 2017 and cover two full academic years, concluding in the summer of 2020.

The programme, titled Bikeability Plus, has been piloted across 18 areas of England and introduces four and five year olds to balance training, teaches older pupils how to fix and maintain their bikes and encourages safer cycling to and from school.

The Carbon Trust ran a service for local authorities, helping them to run a pilot carbon management programme in a sample of their schools.

The government is also piloting a new programme to reimburse student loan repayments for teachers in the early years of their careers.

The pilot programme, which was sponsored by the Birmingham Community Safety Partnership, improved the safety awareness of 8,000 school pupils throughout Birmingham.

Carla Jones, CEO of Allergy UK says: «The success of this pilot in two secondary schools with different demographics is very encouraging for the programme going forward».

Mentor is launching a pilot of the Unplugged programme in secondary schools and Pupil Referral Units in Blackpool, St Helens, and Salford.

The government will also be piloting a new student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teachers in the early years of their career, targeted in the areas of the country that need them most.

Perhaps the greatest achievements of the PDA programme have been in terms of its output and its knock - on effect on use of technology within the Organisation.The pilot cohort of 12 learners in the current programme consists of lecturers, managers, and external engineers undertaking the programme as part of their Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

For the past two years, Demos, supported by GambleAware, developed and tested a pilot education programme to teach children about the risks of gambling, and where to go for help and support.

It will include a pilot programme in the summer of 2019.

In a bid to get teachers into the classroom, a new pilot student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) teachers in the early years of their career has been noted in the measures.

Recognition of this has led to the piloting of a professional development programme for a number of recently appointed CEOs.

A new programme of research and pilots to look at ways to tackle «holiday hunger» for pupils from disadvantaged families is set to be launched.

She was working with several school health nurses who were keen to expand their use of the VIP programme, given they had piloted the program before and it had shown good short - term results.

• Reflect that the programme is a pilot, and as such there will be refinements and developments throughout the duration of the programme

The cost of undertaking the pilot programme is the reduced cost of # 450.

• Reflect that we will ask our pilot cohort to engage in continual feedback and development of the programme.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections.