Sentences with phrase «status than secretaries»

Even when they were later hired as full time law firm employees, techs were (and in some firms still are) considered rather dimmed witted necessary evils, with lower status than secretaries, and nowhere near the status of a paralegal.

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As I explained in «Yes, School Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» Secretary Perdue's May 1st announcement did little more than lock in the status quo on school food.

The Police Fed has so alienated Home Secretary after Home Secretary that Theresa May, having faced this for longer than most, is now embarked on a process of threatening their very status and existence.

Conservatives are likely to draw attention to Labour's own commitment in government to creating a hostile environment, a phrase first used by Alan Johnson when he was home secretary in the last year of the Gordon Brown government, but campaigners insist that cracking down on illegal immigration could be done with better border checks rather than internal policing of status alone.

In essence, Secretary Duncan dismissed parental opposition as the byproduct of self - interested parents who were more concerned about solidifying their social status than with the quality of education their children received.

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

In other analyses of national data (Ingersoll & Perda, 2010), we have found that, as one might expect, teaching has more annual turnover than some higher - status professions (such as lawyers, engineers, architects, professors, and pharmacists); about the same turnover as some occupations (such as police officers and corrections officers); and less turnover than some lower - status lines of work (such as child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals).