He raised the quantity and quality of Policy Unit staff (it now boasts a dozen high-flyers), and widened its remit to oversee existing policies and develop new ones.
But I firmly believe that the quality of our public policy is directly related to the quality of our public debate.
And 4% growth will create a climate for spending reform based on policy quality, rather than fiscal panic.
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And soon the report of our Quality of Life Policy Group will make another significant contribution to that whole debate.
Recommendations for national capacity development on training and re-training personnel for quality ECCE (policy, systems, scientific research, innovations and curriculum development) will be developed.
For the last two years, I have been calling attention to the generally poor quality of the public policy debate about cybersecurity in the United States.
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"While we are striving for perfection in the way we deliver care, we know we fall short of that mark -- but patients can help us get better, " says Nancy Foster, AHA's vice president for quality and patient safety policy.
While the new commission may end up helping the private sector by raising public confidence in its quality, Justin Keen, a health policy analyst at the King's Fund, worries that having separate quality controls for public and private medicine reinforces rather than reduces the two-tier nature of British health care.
If politicians are to gain control over policy, the quality of cabinet ministers will have to be improved.
Michael Gove has signalled plans to shift policy on food quality in academy schools following a fresh campaign led by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
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"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
The answer, of course, is that it was government policy for these poor quality loans to be made.
She said the current policy covered safety, competency and quality of service.
Various offices in the White House float ideas about tax policy, including the Domestic Policy Council and the Council on Environment Quality.
Although many MEPs welcomed the reform, Irish MEP Mairead McGuiness said it was too easy to criticise the policy, saying it had delivered "quality food" in the face of future food security concerns.
Using policy management controls, customers can set code quality and security standards and pinpoint quality and security violations.
Particularly, UNESCO Tashkent is providing technical advice for policy making and strengthening capacities of teachers for quality education and lifelong learning.
The prince, referring to changes in farming with the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, said the emphasis would be on quality, not quantity.
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But if Wal-Mart either raises the quality of Chinese imports, or implements their standard return policy (or both), then South Africans will have much more value for the money they spend.
Should such a competitive approach be pursued henceforth, the result will be to invigorate and improve the quality of formal intelligence community estimates and their usefulness to policy-makers and to help insulate such analyses from undue political influence aimed at eliciting a desired answer.
The council, which hopes to bring in the policy in April, said it would improve the quality of the local area.
In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies.
Combined with enough savings, such a policy might even get you access to a high-quality nursing home that might not take Medicaid patients.
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The need for there to be transparency of health care price information and quality information elicits copious nodding on the part of health plans, policy wonks and sometimes even politicians.
Her research focuses on virtualization, policy-driven resource management, and various aspects of obtaining quality of service in the Grid environment.
It will likely also have a severely chilling effect on the willingness of policy-makers rigorously to challenge, and thereby to improve, the quality of the intelligence they are getting about tomorrow's threats.
Final document of the Forum (Forum Recommendations) that constitutes policy recommendations for further development of legal framework, improving management, funding and quality of adult education in Uzbekistan was drafted and adopted by Forum participants.
" It's also proposing changes to its site governance process, including a shift away from its current voting method for feedback on policy changes, which it says "incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.
As the world marks "Education for All Week", United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) urged policy makers to recognize the growing demand of trained teachers in order to provide quality education to all children in Pakistan.
Under a tenure policy, however, the employer effectively loses this flexibility to eliminate tenured faculty whose quality of work fails to meet a minimally acceptable level or whose productivity has dwindled over the years.
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