With hundreds of schools falling below government "floor targets", the BBC grimly warned that they faced closure, conversion into academies or having their headteacher replaced.
The models proposed by the U.S. Department of Education are rigid and punitive, involving either closure, conversion to charters, or the firing of large portions of the teaching staff.
Prison managers hope to have saved £423m by closing jails by 2015/16, and 15 jails with 7,000 places have been closed or are scheduled for closure or conversion to immigration removal centres.
Rocked by budget cuts, the 125-year-old Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, is losing staff and faces closure or conversion to a public museum.
There was an effort to have the City Council approve an ordinance granting the city more control over closure and conversion of mobile home parks.
At the same time, Hodder Place continued to educate those aged eight to eleven, until its closure and conversion into flats in 1970.
For Robert Epstein in the Independent on Sunday, "Food banks, the vacuousness of modern celebrity, the skewed reality of reality TV, tabloid columnists' dyspeptic rants, library closures, basement conversions, social media bullying – all are present, yet paraded in such a well-worn, obvious manner that they come across as banal".
Food banks, the vacuousness of modern celebrity, the skewed reality of reality TV, tabloid columnists' dyspeptic rants, library closures, basement conversions, social-media bullying – all are present, yet paraded in such a well-worn, obvious manner that they come across as banal.
'After my election it was obvious to me what just a simple closure with no conversion [to biomass wood pellets] would have meant to the community of Atikokan.
Fewer hospitals (n = 11) have been included during recent study years due to hospital closures, mergers, and conversion to chronic care facilities.
Deletion of the β-bulge trigger-loop results in both a switch in the preferred folding route, from the functional loop packing folding route to barrel closure, as well as conversion of the agonist activity of IL-1β into antagonist activity.
