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It paints an alarming picture of noisy and disruptive pupils, who are often "over-praised for mediocre standards of work and behaviour".

"I've had to tread carefully around some of the most mediocre standards I've ever seen in my life.

Though some historical novels, such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1865 69), are of the highest artistic quality, many of them are written to mediocre standards.

Even by his own mediocre standards, Stanley Kramer outdid himself with the airless double-whammy of Inherit The Wind and Judgment At Nuremberg.

Yet, the security derived from enormous state subsidies, combined with the vast output of work, tended to give rise to mediocre standards.

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"Coasting schools now know that mediocre standards will no longer be tolerated," Wilshaw is to say.

And that is not going to happen with the current mediocre standards stuck in place.

Half of all schools rebuilt in the past five years have been completed to a "poor" or "mediocre" standard and just one in 20 has been judged "excellent", according to a report published today.

Is a mediocre standard better than an industry splintered into a dozen excellent fragments?

Both had mediocre keyboards by the standards of the day, though they don't look all that bad in hindsight.