For example, tests are used not only for selecting candidates for education, employment, and promotion but also for immigration, citizenship or asylum, monitoring the performance of schools and colleges, implementing educational policies, reforming educational systems, and deciding on the distribution of funding (Cheng, 2005; Eades, 2005; McNamara, 2012).
The article, The SAT and Admission: Racial Bias and Economic Inequality by Ethan Biamonte, gives an overview of how colleges implement the SAT into their application process and how it is "unethical for the SAT to be used in college admission because it has cultural and economic biases that oppress low-income groups, racial minorities and females".
Obama has implemented a series of changes to education over the course of his two terms in office, including increasing Pell grants, introducing tax credits for college, implementing a 2010 Student Loan Forgiveness program, and proposing last January to make two years of community college free for responsible students.
It's telling that the widget, as with the earlier version, is free for colleges to implement.
To look at just one example, Ford and GM have begun a new partnership with local colleges to implement training programs specifically designed to create the highly skilled technicians that they know they will need.
Without a strategic, collaborative endeavor, it will be difficult for 2-yr colleges to implement and sustain reform, except in isolated ways.
Nationwide perinatal mortality audits in the Netherlands are the result of a joint effort by government and professional colleges to implement audit in all of the country's 90 obstetric units [ 30, 31].
While the evaluator is interested in failure and challenges faced by the mentors and the colleges in implementing the programme, the main focus was on conditions where the project has succeeded and achieved real impact.
The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university (this concept is not unlike that at southern California's private Claremont Colleges, which was implemented 40 years earlier with five small colleges).
In addition, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) could now direct any university or college to implement a proportion-based quota system favouring the Bumiputra.
