Example sentences of "the [noun sg] councils " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funding councils were given the right to advise the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | Any directions to the funding councils by the Secretary of State were made subject to negative resolution by both Houses of Parliament . |
| 3 | The funding councils no longer have the power , as they had in the original Bill , to direct institutions about how they should spend funds derived from private sources . |
| 4 | Both of the funding councils are committed to a system of competitive bidding for students , but each council will have its own separate arrangements . |
| 5 | Will the Minister make absolutely certain that the funding councils use up-to-date figures ? |
| 6 | All relevant factors are taken into account by the funding councils when they decide how to allocate resources . |
| 7 | The Government will ensure that no less than the existing level of resources will continue to be available in the new further education structure and that funding will be apportioned between local education authorities and the funding councils in line with their responsibilities for securing the provision of further education . |
| 8 | The reason is the enormous pressures that the Government , through the funding councils , are imposing on higher education to take in ever more numbers without at the same time being concerned about quality . |
| 9 | We intend that , in future , it should be divided between the funding councils and LEAs . |
| 10 | The funding councils ' duty will embrace courses leading to academic and vocational qualifications ; access to higher education courses ; courses that provide access to qualification-bearing courses and higher education courses ; basic skills courses ; courses in English for speakers of other languages and , in Wales , courses leading to proficiency in Welsh . |
| 11 | They will be secured by the funding councils working through the colleges within the new sector . |
| 12 | Their duty covers all kinds of further education for adults that do not come within the scope of the funding councils ' duty . |
| 13 | The whole scope of the duty to secure provision for adults as it will be divided between the funding councils and LEAs will continue to be supported from public funds . |
| 14 | September that , in calculating the transfer of funds from local authorities to the funding councils in recognition of their new responsibilities , the resources attributable to those courses for which the LEAs will continue to be responsible will be left within local authorities ' standard spending assessments . |
| 15 | The provision for which the funding councils will be responsible goes well beyond the purely vocational . |
| 16 | Certain kinds of access have been given priority and fall to the duty of the funding councils , but progression routes from LEA sector provision to more formal qualification-bearing courses are also important . |
| 17 | The sooner the funding councils are started up and are able to discuss detailed formulae and arrangements for the distribution of funds to institutions of higher education and institutions of further education , the better . |
| 18 | It relates to the crucial argument about whether continuing education and training services — such as the one in Croydon , which does such a lot of good locally — will be able to bid direct to the funding councils rather than through the new sector colleges . |
| 19 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 20 | What is the need for political parties , asks a businesswoman , when through the resistance councils ‘ the smallest individual can be heard in parliament ? ’ |
| 21 | Detailed guidance has been given by the Curriculum Councils for history which will not be repeated here . |
| 22 | This brochure , published by the Borough Councils of Brighton and Hove , contains only establishments that have been inspected to ensure that they meet strict minimum standards . |
| 23 | We have had a good relationship with the borough councils and do n't want to lose it . ’ |
| 24 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils acknowledged the need for a boost to clinical research , but rejected the Medical Research Council 's proposals for a new centre linking basic laboratory research to clinical research in a hospital setting and postgraduate education . |
| 25 | But I had to get research students from somewhere , so I asked the research councils to fund them , in the usual way , by submitting research proposals . |
| 26 | With money being transferred from the Universities Funding Council to the research councils , Knill felt that ‘ there is enough now in the research council system to fully support research grants ’ . |
| 27 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 28 | A report from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils argued that next year 's budget was ‘ substantially less than the sums needed to sustain the health of the UK science base ’ . |
| 29 | Phillips also queries the amount of money newly allocated to the research councils to cover overheads of some projects previously paid for by the universities . |
| 30 | Phillips thinks the research councils could lose out on the transfer . |