Legislative mandates, expectations from professional organizations, and the general public have all embraced the concept of accountability in education.
In Benjamin's theoretical model, children are responsive not only to their social environment, but also to ideas with opaque meanings (mandates, expectations, prohibitions, exhortations, etc).
Participants largely agreed that a formal post-internship debriefing programme should be developed, and that participation should become a mandated expectation of students undertaking ICIs.
Now, Patrick has money and a mandate, elevating expectations: "They fund us and give us the means necessary to be competitive, in the top 25 national teams.
The opportunity is there, but to take it will require a shift of mindset, mandate and expectations on the part of social innovators, charities and public institutions.
The investment strategy itself was not an unconstrained choice, but rather an evolved compromise driven by fund size, local investment pipeline, and the mandate and expectations of investors.
Political accountability is mediated by the democratic election process, through which elected politicians hold top civil servants in the Department of Health to account according to the mandate and expectations of the public.
The top-down portion reflects the mandates and expectations imposed on the department from higher units within the university system as well as external stakeholders such as accrediting bodies, employers and students.
That imbalance conjured memories of the all-male panel of witnesses at the much-mocked 2012 House hearings on the so-called birth-control mandate — and set expectations suitably low.
Those mandates generated unrealistic expectations in some quarters about the technology's ability and how rapidly it could expand.
In Washington, a president who entered office with a shaky mandate is performing above expectations.
