tick-box

The MPs say that a "tick-box culture" imposed by the advent of the national offender management service Noms, which took over prison and probation a decade ago, is part of the root cause of this growth in bureaucracy.

Probation officers spend 75% of time not dealing with offenders, report finds 2011

Friel and Mays mesmerised, and the series worked and stuck, but not so much through the plot as through the dreadful slow realisation that our red-taped tick-box parole system simply doesn't work.

Rewind TV: Sherlock; Endeavour; Public Enemies; New Girl – review 2012

The blogger Michael Hyatt suggests drawing a tick-box on every page, and ticking it only after scouring that page for actionable items.

This column will change your life: Note-taking Oliver Burkeman 2010

O-Level/GCSE has gone from being a key "staging post" to a "tick-box test".

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Quality Assurance - in the name of "fairness", teaching and assessment has to fit into tick-box criteria, which means anything open ended which involves personal judgment and is unpredictable gets ruled out.

Dumbing down in British universities 2008

The obvious irony here is that an academic, who spent decades pondering how chance and personalities and conditions formed the alloy of historical events, has his 80-plus years reduced to a tick-box exam.

In praise of losers 2010

Inspection systems that rely too heavily on data and tick-box systems is not what we need.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

Inspection systems that rely too heavily on data and tick-box systems is not what we need.

Mumsnet versus Ofsted – a prelude to the post-bureaucratic age 2009

The sad thing is that the tick-box style of marking is an almost inevitable consequence of the very proper attempt to democratize A levels.

Archive 2007-08-01 Jonathan 2007

According to Max Pemberton, the brilliant young doctor who writes a column in the Telegraph, this reduces palliative care to a ‘tick-box’ formula, encouraging medical staff to ignore the possibility that someone might not, in fact, be about to die, and to speed them down their ‘pathway’ regardless.

The Spectator's Notes 2009