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- noun Plural form of
inspectorate .
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I read somewhere that the government spent approx £500,000,000 (five hundred million) on it ` s three main inspectorates.
The Smooth And Efficient Running Of A Police Station « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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We gained valuable information from and recommend the chapter on inspectorates in Grading Education by Richard Rothstein and his colleagues.
Using 'School Quality Reviews' to improve schools Valerie Strauss 2010
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Often called “inspectorates,” School Quality Reviews (SQRs) are the central tool for school evaluation in nations such as England (which tests at a few grades), Wales (which tests only at grade 5, with no stakes), and New Zealand (which has only a national exam like the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the United States).
Using 'School Quality Reviews' to improve schools Valerie Strauss 2010
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It would mean cutting central government inspectorates, quangos and heavily bureaucratic organisations that rubber stamp council grants and fees.
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Heads of the three independent inspectorates for prisons, probation and police describe services patchy approach
Police, prisons and probation 'failing to tackle child gangs' 2010
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Heads of the three independent inspectorates for prisons, probation and police said a two-year inquiry into their handling of gang membership among children and young people revealed their "patchy and, at times, counterproductive" approach.
Police, prisons and probation 'failing to tackle child gangs' 2010
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Illiberal registers, databases, inspectorates and regulatory quangos typified the regimes of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and obsessed such control-freak ministers as David Miliband and Ed Balls.
Radical? Hardly. But Cameron is so much more than Blair reincarnated 2010
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Such claims are not credible and are open to criticism, particularly by the UN inspectorates.
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But many annona systems became fiendishly complex as the different political factions within the city wrestled over the power to distribute food: there were depots and distribution centers, inspectorates and tribunals; there were grain quotas and regulations on the precise size of a loaf of bread; in some places, storing corn in the countryside was banned.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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There are no regulators and/or inspectorates that come under its remit.
Money for nothing 2008
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