Sentences with phrase «serious need of reform»

State teacher pension systems are in serious need of reform.

«Cloud computing user privacy in serious need of reform, scholars say.»

Within the centre right, I think most people agree that the welfare system is in serious need of reform.

This year's budget kabuki theater has provided further evidence that Albany is in serious need of reform.

THAT is what makes the church a sick insti.tution in serious need of reform.

Not exact matches

This is unfortunate since the tax system, including EI revenues is in urgent need of serious reform and simplification.

But regardless who wins the election, a serious case can be made for the need for urgent reform of electoral laws.

Indeed, a protest against an EU in serious need of democratic reform would be less dramatic than a vote based on the nativist feelings core to the FN's ideological message.

Nevertheless, if the Conservatives are serious about their manifesto commitment of continuing «to seek agreement on a comprehensive package of party funding reform», there is further evidence that it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

Science graduate study, based on a 19th century model, needs serious reform to meet modern needs, but trying to «revitalize the doctorate is like moving a graveyard,» added another conference speaker, former NSF Director and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Careers) Rita Colwell, currently a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

They found that while China has attempted to reverse the trend of declining fish stocks in the past, serious institutional reforms are needed to achieve a true shift in marine fisheries management.

Either you are serious about the need to diversify the leadership of the reform movement, or you are not.

Thus the sterling recent performance of the U.S. economy has become a convenient rhetorical tool for those who maintain that the education system isn't in need of any serious reform.

However, it's only part of the story, and if we are serious about reforming our high schools, we need a more complete picture in order to determine if this is a success story worth praising and, where possible, replicating.

And we need to take a serious look at reforming the fundamental governance structures of our most troubled school districts, where politics has created paralysis and an absence of accountability and clear policy direction.

While there are great disparities in school quality across the board member districts, there is no district that is not in need of serious reform.

* Choice and Competition — This area of reform has been a nationwide battleground for many years and this session will see a revival of a range of serious efforts in Texas to expand robust education choices to meet the needs of students and their parents, with funding following the child.

Sizer's contrasting portraits of schools offer powerful evidence of what needs to be changed and how much is possible when educators get serious about high school reform.

In spite of all the recent talk about how Texas needs these reforms, there has been little serious, substantive progress.

The scores come after much hand - wringing on the part of the school reform movement, which has used international rankings to claim that America's school system needs a serious overhaul if it wants future generations to compete in a global economy.

But... there needs to be serious reform or elimination of the patent privilege system that grants a monopoly on rather spurious considerations.

Man up and face reality, already - serious reforms are needed across the board, starting with a repeal of that atrocious Bayh - Dole patent legislation.

It also demonstrates the need for a serious reform of the world's palm oil industry.»

No matter how many states implement proven, successful welfare reforms, however, opponents of progress and innovation continue to drum up one odd excuse after another to convince the nation serious welfare reform isn't needed.

At the second reading of the Legal Aid and Advice Bill in 1948 (later the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949), the Attorney General and former British Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, noted in relation to the need for reform that: «The existing arrangements were subject to the further criticism — and I think a serious one — that the scheme depended on the good will and charity of the legal profession.

About a week ago, The Legal Intelligencer made an heroic effort to unpack insurance data to see the effect of the changes in medical malpractice liability law from a decade ago, but ran into a serious problem: those very same medical insurance companies that cry the loudest about the need for tort reform also refuse to make public the data that would tell us the most about the malpractice system.