Sentence examples for standards attainment from inspiring English sources

The DEP also initiated the Gowanus Canal Use and Standards Attainment project, to meet the City's obligations under the Clean Water Act.

Were young people required to prepare for a standard attainment test in RE at KS1 and 2, the commensurate hike in the quality of outputs would be assured.

It was estimated that a minimum sample size of 52 was required for a power of 90% to detect a 30% increase (that is from 50%to80%0%) in standard attainment between the first and second audits with significance level of 5% (Table 2).

Maternal education was equivalised to UK standard attainments and participants were included in one of five mutually exclusive categories (full details in the ESM Methods).

A much larger proportion of children, mostly from less affluent families, fail to reach basic standards of attainment than in these countries: this is not only unjust, but it creates huge economic costs.

If the goal is to raise average standards of attainment in the UK and close the educational gap, there is ample evidence from the OECD that comprehensive schooling is a good thing.

The package follows the review into police pay and conditions by Tom Winsor, now Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, who recommended that able people of high achievement from every section of society should be able to join the higher ranks of the police as long as they can meet rigorous standards of attainment.

On its website it also boasts a message from the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove in which he says: "The Secretary of State believes Kings will become a 'flagship' school and will help to raise the standards of attainment in education".

Mr Gove believes the policy will raise standards and attainment.

Merthyr Tydfil council leader Brendan Toomey said: "We recognise that there are significant challenges ahead for all who work within our education services in order to raise standards of attainment and achievement for our children and young people.

Whilst it could be argued that the aim of formative assessment is not so much to raise the standards of attainment [ 2] but to foster the spirit of learning, it appears clear that neither goals were achieved in this case by the formative material provided.