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Notably, the Cost Reduction Directive aims to increase infrastructure sharing. This may simply be due to the different investment cycles of energy and telecommunication infrastructures. Perceived issues of liability may however also prevent a stronger engagement of industry actors in this type of cooperation.
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Through the identification of areas of improvement, appraisal results can, furthermore, feed into the preparation of individual development plans and/or inform the professional development opportunities a school leader takes part in. In all of these three appraisal frameworks, appraisal is based on and systematically tied to professional development plans that are embedded within wider school goals. In Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia, school leader appraisal is also firmly grounded within a wider system of professional development for school leaders (see Box 7.3).
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We have not been able to get a clear answer from the responsible person at Teijin, and in the basic scenario it was therefore chosen to use a conservative approach, assuming a low yield of the process. For climate change, the increased efficiency means that there is a net benefit instead of an impact. The same finding is seen for human toxicity, cancer effects.
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The term "gender" refers to socially constructed identities, attributes and roles for women and men and society's social and cultural meaning for these biological differences resulting in hierarchical relationships between women and men and in the distribution of power and rights favouring men and disadvantaging women. The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis, D. Tsikata, "Announcing a new dawn prematurely? London, Zed Books, 2007), p. 214. Oxford and Portland, Oregon, Hart, 2005), pp.
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Public tenders for e-government are a crucial growth driver for domestic software market development as well as local innovation. Accordingly, Governments in developing and transition economies should seek to use public IT projects as a way to foster active participation and development of local software companies. The relevance of public procurement was confirmed in the UNCTAD-WITSA Survey of IT/Software Associations, where the lack of such procurement of software and IT services was mentioned as a barrier by more than half of all responding associations based in developing and transition economies, and especially in Africa and the Middle East (table V.1).
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Global scientific efforts to raise the profile of other environmental issues (for example, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, or the Natural Resources Panel) have had a much lower impact. This prominence, however, can be a source of vulnerability as well, as became clear in late 2009 and early 2010, when the soundness of IPCC reports and the scientific basis for its work came under widespread attack. The advantage of a multi-dimensional organisation such as the OECD is that it is able to explicitly connect its environmental work with relevant non-environmental issues with a view to drawing out the broader policy implications which may be important for policy reform to be implemented.
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A panel of researchers and school leadership experts identified the research base for updating the ISLLC 1996. The development of the standards was organised by a steering committee in several phases. All NPBEA member organisations identified a strategy to ensure membership input into the revision process.
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The potential benefits of contextualised learning and integrating academics and CTE are widely recognised and the integrated approach is widely used in CTE programmes. A number of policy instruments are designed to ensure strong academic skills among all students, such as the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. Data are used to monitor performance among different groups of students and target interventions at schools with unsatisfactory performance.
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Each group carries out a different activity, but the general subject matter of all activities is the same. Many of these teachers speak the same language as the immigrant students in the classes. For example, one teacher concentrates on the subject matter and explains tasks, while the special-needs teacher primarily focuses on social issues, supports group-building processes and attends to those who need special attention.
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It means seeing students’ language capacities as part of their personal, social and cultural identity and welcoming it as a tool for learning and understanding (Holmen, 2009). This will help children bridge the gap between their home and school and ensure that their cultural and language background is valued as much as that of the majority (Brind et al., This can be a way to validate and signal proficiency in another language and to devise best suited support strategies in language learning for each individual child. Moreover, to acknowledge that a student knows a language other than Danish is a first step towards attaching a value to that knowledge.
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Measures to empower women must also reach out to new generations of women who are expected to play a greater political role. As noted by the head of a European co-operation agency, "greater participation of women in the development of agricultural, trade, and finance sector policies, and stronger participation in designing local economic development policies would help ensure better access for women to production means, markets, finance and political connections that would help develop their businesses" (Interview 3, 2018). For the head of an African regional organisation, parity in this area involves "The introduction of modules on leadership in school and university courses and an increase in the awareness of opinion leaders on the political role that women can play and the constraints they face" (Interview 31, 2018).
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An important channel of knowledge exchange is the internship system employed by several colleges.8 Internships provide an entry point into the workforce when students continue working for the industry partner after the internship (see also Chapter 2). For example, the Best to Industries Programme at the Computer Sciences Department of the Tel Hai Academic College provides an example of systematic collaboration with the local high-tech industry that improves students’ learning outcomes, strengthens the links between higher education and industry and helps attract and build high tech industry to the northern-most part of the country (see Chapter 2 Box 2.5). The Knowledge Transfer Partnership Scheme in the United Kingdom has been running successfully (previously as Teaching Company Schemes) since the 1970s.
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A formal analysis has become a symbol of efficient information use, rational decision-making and a willingness to carry out actions (Heikkila etal., Formal analysis utilisation has four different purposes: information purposes, communication, to direct and focus the attention and symbolic reasons (Langley, 1989). The implementation of formal analysis can be seen to address several purposes and needs at the same time.
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Even before that election, the Chinese renminbi was under heavy depreciation pressure (see figure 1.11). China's foreign currency and bond markets went through substantial swings at the turn of the year. It is estimated that 40 per cent of the roughly $490 billion in outflows in 2016 took place during the fourth quarter (BIS, 2017). With the introduction of new capital control measures in December, outflows slowed in the first month of 2017.
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The latter is positive as it may facilitate skills matching and the transition from school to work. To enhance effectiveness, it should be ensured that, as intended, the additional practical training takes place in companies (e.g. in the form of apprenticeships) rather than in school-based workshops or in the network of regional training centres (TISZKs) developed in the late 2000s, which have had mixed performance (Cseres-Gergely, 2010). This may require additional incentives for companies to train apprentices.
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Therefore, the main place of settlement is on the coast. The northern system provides electricity to approximately go%of the population and most of the islands inthe northern part ofthe Faroe Islands. The southern system provides electricity to Suduroy, where approximately 10% ofthe population lives. A few smaller islands are not supplied with electricity through either of the two main grids.
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Currently, about 78 million people are added to the world’s population every year. This means that, by 2050, the global economy would need to be able to provide a decent living for more than 9 billion people, of which 85 per cent will be living in what are now developing countries. Africa will account for about half of the absolute increase in population between 2010 and 2050 and be home to nearly one quarter of the world population by 2050 at present trends. As a result, the world population is ageing rapidly. By 2050, one in three persons living in developed countries and one in five in what are now developing countries will be over 65 years of age.
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AbstractDigital technology is an expanding area of education policy. There is growing interest, therefore, in how networks of corporate and state policy actors implicit in the formation of (inter)national education technology agendas intersect with local school systems and teachers. In particular, this paper explores the significant policy work that takes place outside schools and classrooms through education trade shows. Based on an in-depth ‘event ethnography’ of one large Scandinavian educational technology show, the paper details how these events function as sites of policy interpretation – ‘sharing’ (or more accurately ‘selling’) global ideas and imperatives to local schools and teachers. These findings highlight the role of trade shows in consolidating policy networks, subsuming public education interests into corporate concerns, and differentiating teacher subjectivities and encouraging teacher entrepreneurship. The paper problematizes the ways in which teacher agency is shaped and controlled by th...
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Box 3.5 describes the principal models used by Transport for London to carry out such simulations. A major role of the COMETRAVI and the COMETAH will be to co-ordinate metropolitan-wide data collection and modelling. This will allow the COMETRAVI to build on the CAMe’s actions on the standardisation and improvement of mobility policies linked to air quality and the environment.
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The social care components of LTC may be provided and remunerated as a package of services along with long-term nursing and personal care services. If such services cannot be separately accounted for, and are not the dominant component of the package, they should be included under HC.3, otherwise the complete package should be under HC.R.l: Long-term care (social). Also excluded are services involving surveillance of persons with mental deficits such as dementia patients, and medical assessment and services involving case management and co-ordination between medical and long-term health care (which are also included under HC.3).
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The literature on feminism and multiculturalism has identified potential conflicts between the recognition of cultural diversity and securing women's equality. Three broad approaches to this dilemma have emerged in the practices of contemporary states: regulation, working with the communities, and exit. Each of these is apparent in current initiatives regarding forced marriage, but the overwhelming emphasis in the UK has been on enabling individuals to exit from the threat or reality of a forced marriage. In assessing these initiatives, this paper highlights the limitations of exit and the danger of moving towards immigration regulation as the preferred solution.
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Legislative changes were adopted to relax Soviet-era “hygiene standards”, permitting early childhood education and care to be provided in a wider range of accommodations. To stimulate provision, the Lithuanian central government authorised municipalities to use the funding received through the student basket funding methodology to support provision in private ECEC facilities, as well as public facilities. As a consequence of these changes, the number of private kindergartens has been steadily increasing, and in 2016, 25 of the country'’s 60 municipalities had private kindergartens. Expand participation in rural areas by focusing on stimulating parent demand for services.
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The indicators for the type of water supply, the fuel used for cooking and the material used to build house walls are exceptions in that the most common profiles for these indicators are two-dimensional profiles that are combined with the “sewerage system” indicator. The results that do not display a level of frequency in absolute terms (i.e., indicators that are more likely to appear in combination with others than alone) are shown in table 6. For example, although the number of households that lack running water is not numerically significant, the two-dimensional “sewerage system-running water” indicator is significant.
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At the international level, it can help to build trust that developed countries are delivering on their climate finance commitments and so facilitate more ambitious climate action by developing countries over time. In particular, as outlined in previous CCXG and other analyses, there are significant methodological challenges in estimating mobilised climate finance (Caruso and Ellis, 2013, Jachnik, Caruso and Srivastava, 2015), including assessing causality between a public intervention and mobilised private climate finance. Further, current climate finance reporting requirements under the UNFCCC contain inconsistencies and gaps (Ellis and Moarif, 2015). In addition, there can be significant capacity and institutional challenges relating to collecting and reporting information on climate finance received.
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The expenditure of the Gender Unit also saw a growing share of noncore resources as a percentage of its budget, from 23 per cent in 2008 to 39 per cent in 2013. This also impacted the number of global team staff, which grew from 4 posts in 2006 to 23 posts in 2010, and then declined to 8 by 2013. Evidence suggests that the majority of country offices have received support from gender practice leaders and that this guidance has been valued.
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The value of UK seafood exports fell by 7.4% to GBP 1 349 million while the volume grew 7.8% to 469 000 tonnes. In the United Kingdom, Seafish in conjunction with the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) are exploring the effects of climate change on the UK seafood industry (domestic and import) to help the industry adapt.
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Governments can and do take steps that are remarkably successful in counteracting child poverty. ” The principal league tables of child poverty with which this report began provide one overview of the record of different governments in helping families to protect children from the sharpest edges of poverty. But the available data also allow more specific comparisons to be made.
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An agency was also established to implement functions formerly carried out by the ministry. Although the programme’s name made no reference to “technology” or “innovation”, it w'as used by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) to implement two framew'ork programmes that shaped the future of the innovation system (Svarc, 2006, p. 153). The first dealt with the establishment of a national network of institutions for the development, transfer, implementation and financing of new technologies.
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The country is supporting ITU's advocacy for universal broadband policies, boosting affordability and broadband uptake. The overall objective is to convert Mauritius into a regional ICT hub and make Mauritius an Intelligent and Smart Island through full broadband island-wide connectivity, and thus narrow the digital divide. In recent years, the digital divide has been shrinking in terms of numbers of fixed phone lines, mobile subscribers and Internet users.
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For instance, in Finland, the Job Start experiment run from 2006 to 2009 helped young people unsure about their options to clarify study choices and increase their learning skills and motivation in liaison with existing VET / apprenticeship programmes. The network created between staff and the participating institutions, as well as the individual approach proved to be key to the success of the pilot (Jappinen, 2010). Also in Germany, ‘preapprenticeship’ training exists to prepare those who are not ready to enter an apprenticeship because they lack either motivation or the basic skills needed to succeed in his type of programme. The programme consists of a subsidised internship in a firm where predominantly basic practical skills and literacy are conveyed.
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For example, studies show that people living in more deprived areas of the United Kingdom are more likely to have low income and be unemployed, have lower life expectancy, live in poorer housing in more degraded local environments, and receive poorer education and health services. Overall, living in those areas affects people’s lives more than their personal characteristics (Cabinet Office & Strategy Unit, 2005). Overall, businesses created by immigrants generate substantial economic activity and employment.
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In the existing transparency system, there are also differences in how provisions are implemented in terms of timing. For example, only 9 non-Annex I Parties that are not LDCs or SIDS submitted their first BURs before the requested deadline of the end of 2014. Even fewer non-Annex I Parties have begun submitting their national communications every four years, as requested by the COP in Decision 1/CP.
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The use is mostly for non-commercial, subsistence purposes and forests have not contributed significantly either as a source of employment or as a source for economic activity. The national tourism strategy recognizes Georgia's natural heritage as one of the key assets for tourism development. In addition, based on a combination of field studies tracking tourist statistics in both protected areas and perspective nature-based tourist areas confi m that Georgia has substantial natural resources and the capacity to develop nature-based tourism. It should be mentioned that the number of visits to the protected areas of Georgia increased about 60 times from 2007 to 2013.
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Several countries are experiencing public health crises as a result of opioid addiction. Fatal overdoses have reached record highs in many regions and Hepatitis C virus is the norm among people who inject drugs in several countries. Thus, providing for the global availability of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction is more important than ever. In this article, we introduce readers to the collection of papers that appear in this special issue on MAT for opioid addiction. We describe the articles and commentaries thematically to include topics that address 1) the contemporary history of methadone maintenance, 2) the provision of and access and barriers to MAT, 3) compliance and outcomes of MAT, 4) health issues among MAT patients, 5) race, ethnicity, and social class backgrounds of MAT patients, 6) criminalization and stigma, and 7) challenges associated with the expansion of MAT.
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In contrast, the pace of urbanization of poverty was much slower than that of urbanization of the population in Bhutan. Note: Data for the earlier period were not available for Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Most landlocked developing countries, except Mongolia, did not experience significant increases in their urban populations nor in their urban poor. However, if the capacities of cities to accommodate an influx of people cannot keep up with increasing demand for dwellings, infrastructure and public services, it could result in social exclusion, instability and environmental degradation (ESCAP, 2018c).
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Thus the NEET include unemployed and discouraged young people as well as those who are considered to be out of the labour force or inactive (OECD, 2010). It is calculated as the sum of youth in all types of employment as a share of the labour force. The status groups are separated by the types of economic risk they represent and the amount of time spent working. Vulnerable employment is a measure of people who are employed under relatively precarious circumstances as indicated by the status in employment.
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Even in high-connectivity countries, family income does much to determine children's ability to meet their online needs. The case of the homework gap in the United States, where the lack of home broadband access puts low-income schoolchildren at a disadvantage, is a telling example (see box: Mind the homework gap). The global gap in internet use between men and women grew from 11 per cent in 2013 to 12 per cent in 2016.13 The gap is particularly striking in some low-income countries (see Figure 2.5).
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This was stated in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26) and repeated in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 28). The report of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, chaired by Amartya Sen, has drawn further attention to this matter (Sen, 2007). Basic education is also widely accepted in the international literature and policy discourse as essential for development and poverty reduction (see e.g. Lee, 2004, Cohen et al.,
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Technical assistance also helps reduce investment risks by, for instance, providing technology-related data on specific measures, as well as climate- and weather-related information. This can help potential project proponents and investors to develop project plans and make financial decisions (CPI and OECD, 2015). The EU, for example, provides a large-scale grant financing to EBRD's Sustainable Energy Financing Facilities through the EU Neighbourhood Investment Facility to help local financial institutions develop their capacities in financing mitigation projects. Whereas most countries predominantly use loans (e.g. concessional loan financing for power plants, irrigation systems and transport infrastructure), Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan receive a relatively large share of grant finance, reflecting their lower income levels.
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