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YPO, also referred to as Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation, is a publicly owned central purchasing body [2] based in Wakefield, Yorkshire. [3] It is owned and governed by a consortium of county , metropolitan and borough councils in Yorkshire and the North West England.
Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) creates and distributes metadata for English-language resources used in K-12 schools, primarily for integration with integrated library systems. As of 2019 [update] , 93 per cent of Australian schools and 49 per cent of New Zealand schools are subscribed, with a total of 107 international schools ...
The Pre-school Learning Alliance (the Alliance) is the largest early years membership organisation and voluntary sector provider of quality affordable childcare and education in England. An educational charity, the Alliance represents the interests of over 14,000 member settings who deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year.
House banners at a public school in Australia. In some boarding schools, a primary purpose of the house system is to provide pastoral care to the students. Separated from parents for long periods, children will rely on the school to fulfil their socio-emotional needs, in addition to meeting their basic physical care. The smaller within-school ...
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the statutory framework for early years education in England, or, as stated on the UK government website: "The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5".
Durston House was founded by the brothers Ben and Robert Pearce in 1886 as a Christian foundation and was essentially proprietary for its first hundred years of existence. [3] The educational charity that runs the school was launched in 1986, the school's centenary year, and the school has since trebled its size, with a pupil threshold of ...
A house price index (HPI) measures the price changes of residential housing as a percentage change from some specific start date (which has an HPI of 100). Methodologies commonly used to calculate an HPI are hedonic regression (HR), simple moving average (SMA), and repeat-sales regression (RSR).
In May 1985, John Menzies rescued ELC. [4] Sales struggled in the end of the 1990s. After some years, the company's board of directors led by Mike France, bought the company back in October 2001 for £30 million, being backed by 3i, before selling it to Tim Waterstone (who founded Waterstones bookstores) under the name Eagle Retail Investments, for £62 million in April 2004, and he joined it ...