Sentence examples for fall in standards from inspiring English sources

To have avoided a fall in standards, one has to be either wealthy or asset-rich.

"It's nothing to do with a fall in standards; it's about discovering new authors [and] I absolutely don't think there has been any dumbing down or change in standards.

Since then, plans have been laid to merge the six A-level boards into three and to cut the number of syllabuses offered by each.But although all the excited talk about a great fall in standards seems ill-founded, evidence does exist that as pupils have become increasingly aware of which subjects are the hardest to pass they have deserted them.

We are now faced with a situation where Mr Gove is intent on dismantling the system with little evidence of the fall in standards he claims and no consideration of the impact on education generally and more specifically on the students for whom he holds responsibility.

Church of England schools should cut down to one in 10 the number of places reserved for practising Anglicans, even if it means a fall in standards, the church's education chief has said.

Any fall in standards at CFS could in time be expected adversely to affect standards across the entire Air Force".

The fall in living standards is greater still for the poorest, who effectively suffer higher inflation.

The coalition had also failed to prevent a dramatic fall in living standards, the Labour leader said.

The country, at the time of independence one of Africa's richest, experienced a catastrophic fall in living standards.

While a minority have seen real wages rise, for the vast majority in the countries in question, the transition process has witnessed a spectacular fall in living standards.

In the UK, the latest data showed pay growth has finally started to outpace inflation following a prolonged fall in living standards.