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Links with schools and colleges. The University has developed strong links with schools and colleges over a number of years. In addition to the operational links we have, we have more recently emphasised the strategic nature of the relationships between the University and schools and colleges in the region. For example: We currently have around 80 University staff acting as school governors, and have been working with the School Governor’s One Stop Shop in recent months to explore how our participation in governing bodies can be expanded over time our annual Schools and Colleges conference provides an opportunity for teaching and guidance staff to be updated on developments both at the University of Sheffield and in the wider sector “REACH”, our e-newsletter is available to all staff in schools and colleges within the Sheffield City Region, and a new version of this has been introduced for the national audience Further development of our consultation programme for Heads and Principals of local schools and colleges has resulted in the development of an advisory group, which can be a helpful source of information about the pre-HE sector as well as acting as a sounding board for any developments we would like to ‘test’ with schools and colleges We also contribute to regional activity targeting schools and colleges in collaboration with XXXX, from a CPD perspective for teachers as well as with activities targeting pupils We believe that these opportunities facilitate effective two-way communication and help us to develop stronger partnerships with our key stakeholders. Although the University has taken the decision not to become exclusively involved in individual school governance, for example through the sponsorship of an academy, we are currently exploring new models for partnership working with schools and colleges and this may lead to us implementing a prioritisation model in future years, to take account of those schools and colleges who would benefit most from participation in our outreach programmes. For over fifty years the University has had a strong commitment to part-time degree provision delivered by its Institute of Lifelong Learning (TILL). Our 2013/14 Agreement committed significant financial support for part time students studying through TILL in the form of fee waivers. The fee waivers, (which were implemented from 2012/13) will continue to be offered until at least 2014/15 in line with NSP regulations (see ‘Financial support for part-time students’, below). Our commitment to...
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Links with schools and colleges. The University of Hull has three formal strategic arrangements to support its links with schools and colleges: The University of Hull’s Federation of Colleges is a partnership of eight HE in FE providers, the University of Hull and Higher York. The Federation fulfils its strategic aims of supporting economic development across the Humber Local Economic Partnership, associated Enterprise Zones, City Deal and the wider region, through working together to increase learning opportunities and enhance widening participation progression into higher education. The Federation has a particular expertise and focus on vocational and work-based learning, supporting learners and employers to develop Higher Level Skills, increasingly important with the regeneration taking place across the region. At the heart of the network is the notion of new and relevant progression opportunities, backed by a quality assured framework. This is supported by processes for enhancing curriculum development (focused on priority learning areas) and collaborative professional development including research. This pre-HE group of sixth form colleges, FE colleges, schools and academies works jointly with the University of Hull to address social and economic challenges in the region through providing:  Activities for young people to raise aspiration and awareness of learning opportunities at HE level  Direct recruitment activities to encourage progression post-16 and to the University of Hull  A forum for collaborative debate on pertinent education policy and practice The AIN has 40 members , several of which are key targets for the University in terms of its commitment to provide a learner progression framework of activities, due to their location in areas of significant deprivation and high proportion of learners on free school meals. The University, in partnership with Wyke and Wilberforce Sixth Form Colleges, sponsor the new Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Academy, serving the varied communities of North Hull. The Academy opened in September 2012 in a purpose built, high tech learning environment funded through the Hull BSF programme. Through Governance of the Academy, providing joint Academy/University and sixth form college activities for students, supporting initial teacher training, professional development, engaging in scholarly activity and research opportunities for teachers and support staff, the sponsors will play an important role in the life of the Academy. The University and its co-sponsors wil...
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Links with schools and colleges. In addition to the ‘enhanced partnerships’ articulated earlier we have provided significant support and staff resource to the development of the London Design and Engineering UTC. Opening in September 2016 the UTC has attracted a high percentage of applications from female students and will play are key role in widening access to STEM subjects. Access to UEL resources and cross phase curriculum projects will support progression to HE in STEM subjects including pathways from Level 3 Apprenticeships to Higher Apprenticeships. In addition, the University is a member of a number of strategic and operational networks and groups working in partnership across east London and Thurrock. Here we contribute to the development of borough and sometimes sub regional strategies aimed at increasing attainment and participation at all levels of education and into employment.
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Links with schools and colleges. Within the University of Liverpool, links with schools and colleges are developed: by the Student Recruitment and Admissions Office (SRAO), to support student recruitment and admissions, and some outreach work; to support outreach activities, through the Educational Opportunities Team (EO); with academic departments who have students engaged in curriculum-based activity within schools and colleges; and, as part of the University’s civic engagement activities. In order to ensure that the links with schools and colleges are managed as effectively as possible, to the benefit of all parties, a new Schools Policy is being developed, and will be in place by 2011-12. This will be underpinned by a series of Strategy documents for each area of activity, and all interactions will be overseen by the University Admissions and Widening Participation Committee, which includes representation from all relevant offices, the three Faculties, and the Guild of Students. There is increasing evidence that outreach work can be maximised by going beyond working with a specific cohort of pupils for a fixed period of time. By building capacity at school level, we hope to achieve lasting culture change in schools with very low HE participation rates. From 2011-12, we will maintain our focus on ‘most able but least likely’ but extend this to include the schools themselves, as well as targeted cohorts of young people. It is proposed to develop a more formalised relationship with a group of ‘Partner’ and ‘Associate’ schools and colleges, with respect to outreach activities. The relationship with partner schools will be a long- term, meeting multiple strategic objectives for both institutions, and with a high level of recognition regarding the relationship in both organisations. The relationship with associate schools will be formal, but sometimes limited to specific outcomes. It will be medium term and will meet a single-institutional priority and one or more department/school priorities. Partner schools will be targeted on the following basis: Schools that the University has an established formal relationship with AND: % of pupils obtaining 5 GCSEs at grades A-C (including Maths and English) currently below the national and local average, with particular emphasis on National Challenge Schools (below 30%) AND: Greater than 70% of pupils living within the 13,000 most deprived wards nationally, as identified by IMD (% of those eligible for free school meals could be used as another indic...
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Links with schools and colleges. The University of Hull has two formal strategic arrangements to support its links with schools and colleges:
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  • CERTIFICATIONS; DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES The Adviser acknowledges that, in compliance with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”), and the implementing regulations promulgated thereunder, the Trust and the Fund are required to make certain certifications and have adopted disclosure controls and procedures. To the extent reasonably requested by the Trust, the Adviser agrees to use its best efforts to assist the Trust and the Fund in complying with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act and implementing the Trust’s disclosure controls and procedures. The Adviser agrees to inform the Trust of any material development related to the Fund that the Adviser reasonably believes is relevant to the Fund’s certification obligations under the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act.

  • Internal Controls and Compliance with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the Company, its subsidiaries and the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) are in compliance with all applicable provisions of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx and Exchange Rules. The Company maintains a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting, an internal audit function and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, “Internal Controls”) that comply with the applicable Securities Laws and are sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accounting for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Internal Controls are, or upon consummation of the offering of the Offered Securities will be, overseen by the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board in accordance with Exchange Rules. The Company has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Audit Committee or the Board, and within the next 135 days the Company does not reasonably expect to publicly disclose or report to the Audit Committee or the Board, a significant deficiency, material weakness, change in Internal Controls or fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in Internal Controls, any violation of, or failure to comply with, the Securities Laws, or any matter which, if determined adversely, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

  • Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Company maintains effective “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined under Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act to the extent required by such rule).

  • Controls and Procedures The records, systems, controls, data and information of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries are recorded, stored, maintained and operated under means (including any electronic, mechanical or photographic process, whether computerized or not) that are under the exclusive ownership and direct control of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or their accountants (including all means of access thereto and therefrom), except for any nonexclusive ownership and nondirect control that would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the system of internal accounting controls described below. The Company (i) has implemented and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated Company Subsidiaries, is made known to the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company by others within those entities, and (ii) has disclosed, based on its most recent evaluation prior to the date of this Agreement, to the Company’s outside auditors and the audit committee of the Board of Directors (A) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information, and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. As of the date of this Agreement, no officer of the Company has knowledge of any reason that its outside auditors and its chief executive officer and chief financial officer shall not be able to give the certifications and attestations required pursuant to the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section 404 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, without qualification, when next due. Since December 31, 2008, (A) neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, auditor, accountant or representative of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, has received or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or oral, regarding the accounting or auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or methods of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries or their respective internal accounting controls, including any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has engaged in questionable accounting or auditing practices, and (B) no attorney representing the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, whether or not employed by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, has reported under Part 205 of the SEC Rules (17 CFR §205.1, et.seq.) evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Board of Directors or any committee thereof or to any director or officer of the Company. The management of the Company has, since January 1, 2006, performed the evaluation of the effectiveness, as of the end of each fiscal year, of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting required by SEC Rule 13a-15(c). The evaluation as of December 31, 2010 did not disclose any material weaknesses.

  • Internal Controls and Procedures The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (e) and (f), respectively, of Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) as required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act. The Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are reasonably designed to ensure that all material information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or furnishes under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and that all such material information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make the certifications required pursuant to Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”). The Company’s management has completed an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act for the year ended December 31, 2010 and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective. Based on its most recent evaluation of internal controls over financial reporting prior to the date hereof, management of the Company has disclosed to the Company’s auditors and the audit committee of the Company Board (i) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to report financial information and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, and each such deficiency, weakness and fraud so disclosed to auditors, if any, has been disclosed to Parent prior to the date hereof.

  • Accounting Controls and Disclosure Controls The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintain effective internal control over financial reporting (as defined under Rule 13-a15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act Regulations) and a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (1) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (2) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15 and Rule 15d-15 under the 1934 Act Regulations) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.

  • Tools and Equipment As established by current practices, the Employer may determine and provide necessary tools, tool allowance, equipment and foul weather gear. The Employer will repair or replace employer-provided tools and equipment if damaged or worn out beyond usefulness in the normal course of business. Employees are accountable for equipment and/or tools assigned to them and will maintain them in a clean and serviceable condition.

  • Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx; Disclosure Controls The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all of the provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 which are applicable to it. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

  • Disclosure Controls and Procedures; Deficiencies in or Changes to Internal Control Over Financial Reporting The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated by management of the Company for effectiveness as of the end of the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter; and (iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established. Since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there have been no significant deficiencies or material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company is not aware of any change in its internal control over financial reporting that has occurred during its most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

  • Disclosure Controls The Company and its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and that has been designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

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