[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of the City Challenge programme

... this evaluation, the more relevant research area is school improvement, because the concern is with the factors that can bring about ...self- evaluation; external support, networking and partnership; and ... See full document

... ‘high challenge, high support’. High challenge because it has sought to prompt schools to take responsibility for improvement through, largely, external accountability measures which create pressures for ... See full document

... other programme of activities funded by PC3 was led by a sector charity, working with four national employers in the hospitality industry to develop a model that could be used by businesses in the sector to ... See full document

... the Challenge was also a barrier in relation to the sustainability and scalability of the ...training programme, while another project had plans in place to continue with their existing group of companies ... See full document

... vaste programme de démolition des grands ensembles visant à faire disparaître les noyaux de pauvretés à travers les opérations dites de renouvellement urbain dans une logique qui s’apparente fort au ... See full document

... The three student mentor interviewees provided interesting commentary on their experience of taking part in the Big Deal, covering their personal backgrounds and motivations for voluntee[r] ... See full document

... Further, attending the Big Deal Launch Days, staying at the University of Warwick, working with the Warwick Business School and the business mentors, all had positive effects on the youn[r] ... See full document

... One of the main elements of the productive pedagogies framework is that all students should be provided with intellectually challenging classrooms, particularly where students are from disadvantaged backgrounds. It is ... See full document

... Body (hereafter called the ‘Chair’) to attend board meetings. On the whole, interviewees reported that attendance had been relatively high, although in some cases Chairs had struggled to get time off work to attend all ... See full document

... the programme on pupils, therefore, there was a need to look not only at the ‘hard’ (measurable) outcomes, but also at these ‘softer’ outcomes which previous research has shown to be a precursor to success (Morris ... See full document

... 7.24 This leads to the vital question of sustainability. While some interventions leave a legacy, such as training or capital investments, there was significant concern about how capacity created by the recruitment of ... See full document

... coastal city of Ramsar. Solid Waste Management in the Coastal City of Ramsar was a pilot project implemented by the Organisation for Cooperation of Municipalities of the Mazandaran Province in ...the ... See full document

... the City of Westminster Youth Service and other members of the steering group as it provides an opportunity to recognise the achievements of the young people and provide them with a certificate as a physical ... See full document

... a city known to have high levels of ...prevention programme centring on healthy (non-violent) relationships to Year 9 students (young people aged 13 to 14 years ... See full document

... Moreover, because each project was going through this process, it was only later in the Productivity Challenge timeframe that they realised that they would all benefit from a common language around skills, which ... See full document

... the programme under review (Scriven 1980; Calder ...oriented evaluation is more formative with the goal being to assess areas of programme strength and weakness, areas of improvement, unintended ... See full document

... C&S programme was to ensure that, where the ASBO was imposed, an ISO should be the main type of support offered to the young ...of evaluation revealed a commonly held view that the numbers of ASBOs ... See full document

... cities programme since major cities including the national capital are facing power and water shortages, solid waste management, disappearing water bodies, severe air pollution, traffic chaos, shortage of ... See full document

... “I don’t know, I think it was mainly because I needed some exercise and I like cycling and secondly because I’d seen all these new signs popping up, so I thought there’s obviously quite [r] ... See full document

... any programme targeted at creating wealth among the poor should not be left in the hands of the urban elites without strict supervision but should be structured to benefit those at the lower rungs of society ... See full document