Sentences with phrase «on equity and fairness»

This article is especially relevant today not only because it is a critical review of past research on moral education viewed through the lens and the work of the authors, but because it is also a critique of the current status of higher education and an argument for the need to focus more intentionally on equity and fairness.

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

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«The administration is rightly focused on restoring equity and fairness in our trade relationship with China.

«However, if the Buhari Administration fails to take immediate corrective measures to stabilize Nigeria and restore justice, equity and fairness, particularly to stop the reckless murder of Nigerians by Islamist insurgents, then all Nigerians must prepare to embark on civil disobedience and «shut down» the country.

In a petition titled «A Cry For Justice, Fairness and Equity / Complaint» and copied the Acting Inspector General of Police, the officers said, «We the concerned members of the Nigeria Police Force Course 38/2009, Course 39/2010 are crying for justice, fairness and equity in just concluded promotions of Inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police II released on the 11th January 2016 with LettEquity / Complaint» and copied the Acting Inspector General of Police, the officers said, «We the concerned members of the Nigeria Police Force Course 38/2009, Course 39/2010 are crying for justice, fairness and equity in just concluded promotions of Inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police II released on the 11th January 2016 with Lettequity in just concluded promotions of Inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police II released on the 11th January 2016 with Letter No.

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Wednesday charged stakeholders in the judiciary to champion fairness, equity and justice while discharging their constitutional responsibilities.

This practice of tax fairness and equity is a model we can emulate as a country if we so much want to develop the culture of tax payment and leadership on the African continent.

If therefore the Nigerian media now tend to stress local differences more than «national unity», it is simply because too many issues are yet unsettled — most of these issues bordering on basic justice, fairness and equity.

Achieving intergenerational equity is possible - but only if politicians focus on fairness, reducing inequalities and creating opportunities for all ages.

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Friday called for a return to a truly federal state that would ensure fairness and equity.

Buhari noted that his administration had already started the process of ensuring fairness, justice and equity, in spite of challenges, and would work hard to consolidate on the gains.

«Governor Bello has said that apart from ongoing infrastructural development in the state, long lasting institutional reforms that will be the bedrock of an organised and functional system are ongoing to put in place a system which runs on principles of equity, fairness, justice, and one which rewards for merit and diligence.

He is a smart, creative, energetic person who will keep the interests of all citizens in mind during budget time, with decisions centered on equity, fairness, data, and facts — not rhetoric and petty politics.

«This binding proclamation was based on equity, fairness and natural balance that hold any organization together.

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he said, «Seeing what President Buhari has turned the country to, the fore - fathers of Nigeria, who laid the foundation of the country on equity, justice and fairness will be lamenting wherever they are now.

At the root of Martiniello's research is a quest for fairness and equity by questioning the validity of standardized math tests, given their significant implications on students» lives.

What is most important, as the courts and legislature deliberate on school finance, is to ensure that any system holds firm to principles of excellence, fairness and equity.

Some view this task as a matter of basic fairness and equity — assuring that all students have the opportunity to compete on a level playing field — while Read more about Call for Nominations: Harold W. McGraw, Jr..

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

Stretching late into the evening hours, members of the charter school community testified passionately before the committee on behalf of fairness and equity for charter schools.

New regulations included federal measures to tighten mortgage insurance rules, expand stress tests, and improve tax fairness around capital gains exemptions as well as changes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's securitization programs; B.C.'s new 15 % land transfer tax on foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver and introduction of the Home Owner Mortgage and Equity program to provide interest - free loans to first - time buyers, along with Vancouver's introduction of a tax on vacant homes; and Ontario's doubling of the land - transfer tax rebate for first - time buyers, combined with a tax increase on homes over $ 2,000,000.

And so as a matter of international law under the Paris Agreement, national commitments to reduce ghg emissions must be based on achieving a warming limit as close as possible to 1.5 degrees C but no greater than 2 degrees C, a requirement often referred to as the level of «ambition» but national commitments also must be based on «equity» or «fairness.»

Equity also imposed a duty of fairness on solicitors in contracting with clients, requiring the solicitor to establish, for example, that the client understood the agreement, that the price was reasonable, and «that the transaction was in all respects fair, and such as an independent solicitor who had performed his duty, would have advised his client to enter into.»

Knowing that she was a sitting Judge and Justice helps clients to feel confident that her arbitration decisions are objective and based on a solid legal understanding as well as principles of equity and fairness.

The process, though unorthodox, draws on mediation and arbitration techniques and is grounded in respect by litigants for their respective positons in the conflict, a genuine desire to find resolution, and the ability to remove the conflict from rights, rightness and righteousness to fairness and equity.

The division can vary, however, depending on considerations of equity and fairness.

In reaching his decision in favour of the condo corporation, the Judge went beyond the strict wording of the declaration, relying on the principles of equity and fairness.

Contracts require a meeting of the minds to occur and, when terms of the contract are unclear, they are either held against the drafter of the contract (if one party did most of the writing of the contract) or judged based on concepts of equity, fairness, and what a reasonable person entering into such an agreement would expect.

Ariño and Ring [28] explored how the perceptions of fairness types shaped the partners» decision - making logics and they found out that informational justice and interactional justice could make the partner focus more on relationship quality and then influenced partners» evaluations of efficiency and equity of the proposed alliance, which in turn was helpful to let partners make the decision to form alliance.