Many Cumbrian teachers feel under siege from what they see as wrong-headed initiatives dreamt up by a man who was academically gifted and doesn't see why any child should have trouble engaging with the traditional methods and curriculum like he did.
As we recently wrote about food stamps, something is very wrong when good initiatives must ride along on this regrettable package of special-interest subsidies.
While there's nothing inherently wrong with "organizational initiatives," they often end up being overly complicated, vague, and painfully impersonal.
As well as the obvious dangers around patient safety, the NHS does not have the luxury of getting another workforce initiative wrong; it has too little money and too many nursing vacancies.
Nothing wrong with this initiative, of course (other than the question of who exactly will end up paying for it) – and a clear sign of the desperate state of the Hungarian liberal-left that they could not think of any alternative policy to address ordinary people's sense that European multinationals are making huge profits off them.
"The big society, localism, the green strategy – whether right or wrong, these and other initiatives have seemed at best irrelevant to the task in hand, if not downright contradictory to it; likewise the huge spending hike on overseas aid and the cost of the Libyan expedition".
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — A few months ago, President Bush's prescription drug plan seemed to be another White House initiative going wrong.
Americans would have no use for a dead president who went down in flames just to look good for the cameras.Second, that the planned missile-defence initiative is wrong because terrorists do not fire missiles, they fly planes.
Geoff Thale of the Washington Office on Latin America, a think-tank, told the United States Congress that the approach to police training, a centrepiece of the initiative, was wrong to focus on creating specialised police units, which could easily be undermined or corrupted, rather than concentrating on institutional reform.The status quo leaves both the army and the police vulnerable.
Some industry analysts think Tripod may be barking up the wrong tree with this initiative.
