During the 1960s and 1970s, it was everywhere – standard Brit-abroad uniform, matched with a brass-buttoned blazer and a glass of Campari.
Quad Learning founders Phil Bronner, a former Novak Biddle partner and Chris Romer, a former Colorado state senator, want to help two-year institutions create a same-everywhere standard of selective admissions and a rigorous curriculum that enables those students who qualify to take advantage of an accelerated path and actually have a shot of getting into their four-year college of choice.
And everywhere, Industry Standard swag, the fossils of a once cocky company gone under: notebooks, mouse pads, sticky notes, tote bags, 8-balls, wallets, cuff links, tie tacks and piggy banks, all with The Standard logo.
The first version of this formulary is that promulgated at the Council of Nicaea in 325, but the second version, the "Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed," which has everywhere become standard and is generally referred to as the Nicene Creed, was affirmed at the Council of Chalcedon (451) as the Nicene "faith of the 150 fathers" (i.e., the Council of Constantinople of ad 381).
My own guess is that members of the Hall, like old-timers everywhere, will protect standards.
But choice itself - and the stimulus provided by the independent sector - are helping to improve standards everywhere.
I want to learn from the regional challenges that Labour set up in London, the Black Country and Manchester to see how we can drive up standards everywhere.
It will take a while, but the competition this engenders could eventually help raise standards everywhere.Meanwhile, it is important not to lose sight of quite why GFS is such a good school.
Many international companies want to use the international standards everywhere, saying that would improve efficiency by no longer forcing them to use one set of rules in some countries and a different set at home.
When I discuss these matters with global business executives, almost without exception they are of the opinion that health and safety should be subject to minimum acceptable – and legally enforceable – standards everywhere.
