Vlais said a national system of program accreditation should be established to ensure the quality of reform programs, along with sufficient federal and state funding.
In some cases, Mr. Bloomberg is simply extending Mayor Giuliani's policy initiatives, with a twist, as in adding homeless shelter safety to his list of quality-of-life reforms.
Consumer satisfaction is playing an important role in quality of care reforms and health-care delivery [ 1, 2].
In its Winter 2011 issue, Dissent magazine published an in-depth look into the control that three prominent foundations (Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli and Edythe Broad, and the Walton Family) exert over the substance, direction, and quality of education "reform".
He ends with a list of suggestions, which include a reduction in the "payroll vote" whereby governments co-opt the brighter backbench MPs with a view to diminishing the quality of scrutiny; reform of the Lords and of party funding; and more powers to select committees.
This is from Anand Shukla, chief executive of the Family Parenting Institute and Daycare Trust We fully support the government's commitment to improve the quality of childcare by reforming early years qualifications and raising the status of the profession.
Although it is couched as a move to improve the quality of education, the reform really is an effort to wrest control of the system away from the union and put it back in the government's hands.
The Legal Services Commission, which by then was running the legal aid scheme, was seeking to control the spiralling budget with a series of "quality reforms" For a passionate, coalface lawyer such as Burgess, the shift to a culture of clock-watching and box-ticking was never going to be an easy one.
This result could be attributed to the increasing number of patients, higher requirements for technical level and comprehensive quality of medical staff, and reform measures of hospital administration system caused by the public hospital reform [ 6].
