He added: "Perhaps this explains the shift in polemical terminology to the less prescriptive 'climate change'".
"The Lewis review is not prescriptive and final decisions on how the ABC operates and spends its budget lies with the ABC board," Scott told staff on Tuesday.
It is understood that Gove is resisting any new policy that would force headteachers to commit to delivering specific numbers of hours of sport, or specific sums of money to it, because such a prescriptive approach conflicts with his view that heads should be left to decide their own priorities.
As with another Gove scheme for a single exam board, and his ludicrously prescriptive first draft of the history curriculum, the O-level idea was summarily dropped.
The standards aren't prescriptive – they're a guide to what best practice looks like for school leaders, whether that's headteachers, principals or executives.
Patricia Hewitt smoothed the passage of her reforms by "apologising" for what she described as her "too prescriptive" insistence that primary care trusts must contract out their district nursing and family-planning clinics.
Far from being prescriptive, this detail allows the artist a solid bedrock from which to operate, confident that he is achieving – or, better yet, sharing – the writer's vision.
This story isn't prescriptive.
It's not a very prescriptive working theory, unless your priors lead you to believe that the solution to any given problem is decentralisation of power.All of which is to say that it's all well and good to argue that legislators and regulators aren't going to have enough knowledge to regulate and legislate, and should therefore be stripped of some of their powers.
Laying a square metre of road costs the World Bank over 50% more in countries where firms report paying bribes above 2% of the value of contracts than in ones where such payments are reported to be lower even though its anti-fraud measures are equally stringent the world over.Another reason donors are prescriptive is lack of faith in local bureaucrats' competence.
The existing curriculum is not without its faults: repeatedly re-engineered since it was set in place 20 years ago, it is now cluttered and prescriptive.
