Academy plans in spotlight as Education Secretary meets school heads

Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Apr 2016
Radical plans to strip schools from local authority control will come under further scrutiny today when the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan faces a teachers' union ... Share Go To ... The Education Secretary was heckled when she appeared at the NASUWT conference in March, days after the plans were announced ... She joked. "We haven't had the pitchforks yet, but perhaps I should look outside the committee room when I leave."; ... "Yes ... ....

World Bank assisting China to build a modern fiscal system (World Bank Group)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
The project supports China's ambitious and comprehensive reform agenda released in November 2013, which requires significant changes in China's fiscal system ... They are looking to the World Bank for global knowledge and international experience,' said Karlis Smits, World Bank's Senior Economist and Team Leader for the project ... Policy research financed under the project will focus on seven areas including ... www.worldbank.org/projects....

Determining the best architectural options in home remodeling

Edit Deseret News 30 Apr 2016
We watched our former firm turn homeowners away all the time because their projects were too small to be financially feasible for a firm tailored for projects of a million dollars or more ... While we are happy to work under any circumstances, the best time to plan is at the beginning, rather than several steps into the project ... Professional guidance in the earliest stage of your project can be critical....

State funding supports two local emergency planning projects (Clatsop County, OR)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
Clatsop County has received funding for two local projects from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. Earlier this week the OEM announced the release of the ranked project application funding list for the Fiscal Year 2016 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) grant ... Of that, 80 percent, or $3,069,600 was made available for local projects....

Celebrating the relation of artistes and their tools

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
Prasad is currently working on a project named 'Silence and clamour of tools', wherein he is working on a graphic narrative and series of performances on the untold stories of labourers and their tools. Prasad, who started this project six months back, was in the city for the grant showcase and interactive session, on Friday ... Among the projects I had worked in my past, I had touched issues like media piracy and water scarcity."....

World Bank helps China improve logistics infrastructure (World Bank Group)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
Through this project, we hope to contribute tothe country's efforts to put in place an efficient logistics infrastructure,' said Reda Hamedoun, World Bank's Senior Transport Specialist and Team Leader for the project ... Green logistics is a main theme across all project activities ... The project will be implemented in the next five years ... An estimated 30,800 people will benefit directly from the project ... www.worldbank.org/projects....

AI won’t fly with eco fuel idea, plan on hold

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
Airlines flying between Chennai and Delhi will continue to burn fuel and their aircraft will struggle to touch the high altitude needed to save fuel because Airports Authority of India (AAI) has suspended a city-to-city navigation project that officials hoped to launch on Thursday. AAI had to postpone the project because Air India was not ready — despite having more than a year to prepare....

Bell/Grand project update: With columns rising for overpass, crews start preparing to connect them (Arizona Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
That's one of the most visual changes at the project site in the past week ... Access to businesses next to the project area will be maintained throughout the project. The US 60 (Grand Avenue) and Bell Road Interchange project is part of the Maricopa Association of Governments' Regional Transportation Plan approved by county voters in 2004....

Vermont high court sides with solar project developers

Edit The Oklahoman 30 Apr 2016
(AP) — A fragmented Vermont Supreme Court on Friday sided with developers of a major solar power project in Rutland Town against the wishes of the town and its neighbors. The five-member court split three ways before ruling 3-2 in support of allowing construction of the Rutland Town project ... The court upheld a ruling by the state Public Service Board that gave the 2.3 megawatt Rutland Renewable Energy project a green light....

Rubio Meets With State Agency Following Key Step Forward On Water Management (Marco Rubio)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
'We were fortunate yesterday to get the Committee to approve, at the Senate level, the Central Everglades Planning Project and obviously we're hopeful of getting that passed in the full Senate, over in the House and ultimately into law… So there are a lot of moving pieces that all have to fit together and there's not a single project that takes care of all of it....

Providing audio books for the blind

Edit The Hindu 30 Apr 2016
A visually impaired English teacher has embarked on a project of converting books into audio files for benefit of the blind. Sandeep Trivedi, no stranger to the challenges faced by the blind, said he started the project in 2010 and has converted several books for college and university students, and for candidates appearing in competitive exams....

Didn't pay for IOCL event: Nayak

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
The Naveen Patnaik government and the Centre were locked in a firece battle seeking credit for the refinery project of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) at Paradip ahead of its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 7 ... Apart from BJD's publicity campaign, the I≺ department had issued full-page advertisements about the project on February 6, a day before the inauguration of the event....

Gem headed to the Hudson: Pier 55 park clears key hurdle

Edit New York Post 30 Apr 2016
The only remaining problem is the handful of cranks operating as The City Club of New York who’ve filed appeals to revive their nuisance lawsuit against the project ... Yet, City Club continues to falsely insist the project would somehow destroy local ......
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