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maladministration
noun
Faulty, inefficient or improper management or administration, especially by a government body.
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After the STA reportedly annulled the school's results for two Sats maths papers and a spelling test and warned that "any instances of maladministration of the tests are completely unacceptable", we asked Lewisham how it was responding.
Is any action going to be taken against a school whose 2014 Sats results were annulled after it was found guilty of test "maladministration"?
But some of the worst maladministration takes place in areas such as defence procurement that cannot be devolved.
Her father, José Sarney, a former president, is clinging to his job as the senate's leader, despite claims of maladministration.
(He means the period before he came into office; his critics say the maladministration continues).
The government rejected both her findings of maladministration and her main recommendation for full compensation, however.On February 21st the campaigners scored a hit when a high court found that the government had been wrong to reject the ombudsman's findings.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] bound?SIR – The brightest talents from developing countries stay abroad not only for higher salaries but also to avoid nepotism, maladministration, pot-holed roads and, quite often, criminal governments ("Outward bound", September 28th).
Attempts to set up a customs union within or across it have foundered on nationalism and maladministration.
He reviews cases of alleged maladministration involving EU institutions only; he does not handle complaints about Europe in general.
A politician brave or foolish enough to accept appointment at this low ebb will be rewarded with the baffled sympathy of friends and the mockery of rivals.Prospective commissioners have only to read the investigators' report to see that the problems of maladministration at the commission go wide and deep.
Whereas most of the local media are controlled by government and it shows RFS, broadcasting on short wave from London, attacks the chief minister and his "cronies" for maladministration and alleged corruption.
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