Download or read book The Sutherland Inquiry written by Stewart R. Sutherland and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sutherland Inquiry, (HCP 62, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780102958393), is an independent inquiry remitted by the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) and the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, into the delivery of the National Curriculum tests in 2008. In July 2008, 1.2 million pupils heard that their National Curriculum test results would be delayed. The test delivery service represented a failure in customer delivery service, to the pupils, schools and also the markers upon whom the National Curriculum testing regime relies. The primary responsibility must therefore rest with the American organisation, ETS Global BV (ETS), which won the public contract to deliver the tests and failed its customers. This report examines how this organisation secured the contract, what its plans were, and why its systems and process as a whole were not properly tested. The report will also describe how ETS's systems failed during the test delivery process. There was also a failure on the part of the Government's Non-Departmental Public Body, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to deliver its remit. The report also sets out the procurement process that QCA used to select its delivery supplier, ETS, and how it managed the contract. The report sets out a number of recommendations on how test delivery can improve in future years, and has set out a number of key priorities, including: that the delivery process of the National Curriculum tests should be modernised and improved, in consultation with the marking community, including piloting online marking; that whatever process is used should be thoroughly piloted and project managed to ensure schools and pupils get their results on time; that the customer service provided to markers must be vastly improved to ensure that they are properly supported and are able to access up-to-date information.
Download or read book A Savage Conflict written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.
Download or read book Public Expenditure written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its annual examination of the Department for Children, Schools and Families' (DCSF) spending, the Children, Schools and Families Committee predicts that future funding will be much tighter than at present and the rate of spending growth will be minimal come the next Spending Review. The Committee is pleased that the Government has reaffirmed its commitment to capital investment in education, but there is concern that the review of Building Schools for the Future will lead to the programme being curtailed. To avoid doubt, the Department should make a clear statement about the programme's future. The Committee identifies key problems with the presentation of expenditure figures in the report, including confusion about which expenditure streams or grants deliver which objectives, and calls on the Department to rectify these problems in its next Annual Report. To ensure real accountability, staging points must be included for long term Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets. In order to assess whether these targets have been met, it is imperative that DCSF does not revise them at every three-yearly spending review. The Committee is disappointed that details on how DCSF achieved its efficiency savings are vague and it expects much more of the promised detail in the 2009 Departmental Annual Report.
Download or read book Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages written by John Riddell and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Casual Labour Board Inquiry Commission written by New South Wales. Casual Labour Board Inquiry Commission and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practical Guide to Public Inquiries written by Isabelle Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide provides legal practitioners, participants, witnesses and all those with an interest in public inquiries, with stage-by-stage 'hands on' guidance on the process of public inquiries into matters of public concern. With its user-friendly format of summaries, checklists, 'top tips' and flow charts, this book looks at the setting up of a public inquiry through to its close. It includes information on: - the appointment of the chair and inquiry team; - the choice and significance of the venue; - the drawing up of inquiry procedures, protocols and rulings; - the appointment and role of core participants; - evidence taking; - conducting and attending hearings; - the role of experts; - the writing and publication of the inquiry report. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as public inquiry lawyers, working on inquiries such as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Leveson Inquiry and Grenfell Tower Inquiry, together with contributions from a number of other eminent practitioners in the field, this book provides valuable, comprehensive guidance on the public inquiry process.
Download or read book A Digest of the Judgments in Board of Trade Inquiries Into Shipping Casualties written by Henry Cadogan Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry written by United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forestry service. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry written by United States. Congress Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forest service and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry Hearings before committee written by United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forest service and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate the Interior Department and Forestry Service and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management Obligations for Health and Safety written by Gregory W. Smith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs. At the same time, personal liability for workplace health and safety has increased, resulting in poor outcomes for individual managers. Discussing the minimum expectations that courts and tribunals have
Download or read book Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry Hearings before Committee written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate the Interior Department and Forestry Service and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public Understanding of Assessment written by John Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable public interest, particularly when it is associated with ‘high stakes’ outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment. When the individual’s results do not chime with their or their teachers’ expectations, doubts creep in about the process of assessment that has arrived at this result. However, educational assessment is made up of many layers of complexity, which are not always clear to the general public, including teachers, students, and parents, and which are not easily understood outside of the expert assessment community. These layers may be organized in highly co-dependent relationships that include reliability, validity, human judgment, and errors, and the uses and interpretations of the various types of assessment. No-one could reasonably argue that the principles and complexities of educational assessment should be core learning in public education, but there is a growing realization that trust in the UK assessment system is under some threat as the media and others sensationalize or politicize any problems that arise each year. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of how the general public is considered to perceive and understand a wide variety of aspects of educational assessment, and how this understanding may be improved. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education.
Download or read book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly written by New South Wales. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.
Download or read book History of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Inquiry Into the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
