Politicians try to have it both ways: they talk about changing the system, but then conduct business as usual.
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So in July the government set out three options for changing the system.
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The claim that changing the system will improve standards is impossible to prove.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said it was wrong to be thinking about changing the system while the row over this year's grades continued.
Ultimately, we are changing the system so that it is no longer about the needs and preferences of adults, but rather about what we owe our kids.
While calling for greater support for the volunteer governors who help to manage schools, the report argues that "no case can be made for radically changing the system of school governance".
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You have to be committed to changing the system.
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Stephen Malley, the professor played by Mr. Redford -- who also directed, with a leaden touch -- peddles only banalities in urging a bright, disaffected student to step up to the task of changing the system.
They also heeded warnings that changing the system would hit Austria's social sector, which depends on conscientious objectors who serve as ambulance drivers, attendants at senior citizens' homes and in other community jobs that are hard to fill because of poor pay.
The 29-year-old officer graduated from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy. (For the record, he is not driving an ill-gotten Mercedes Benz, on his way to an illicit gambling den.) "Changing people's mindset is harder than changing the system, " says Montri, flipping through the GPS handbook.
The scholars will "help us look at some of the questions that have arisen, in regard to soft money, with regard to independent expenditures, with regard to whether or not this is a matter of changing the system, or it's simply a matter of enforcement, " the Tennessee Republican said.
The South East, like the country as a whole, voted overwhelmingly ' No' to changing the voting system from the current first-past-the-post system to the alternative vote.
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The same day will see a referendum on changing the electoral system for the House of Commons to the Alternative Vote (AV), in which candidates are ranked in order of preference.
However, it did raise eyebrows to hear one activist cite the referendum on changing the electoral system, in which the party was on the wrong end of an overwhelming defeat, as a success.
The UK government's legislative programme includes plans to scrap ID cards, a referendum on changing the voting system and tighter regulation of the financial sector.
And Labour former Cabinet minister David Blunkett expressed concerns that the new government had made announcements outside the Commons on changing the voting system, Lords reform, spending cuts and the mechanism for dissolving Parliament.
In the case of Ecuador, a constitutional reform could have made sense in the framework of political reform aimed at increasing relations between constituencies and elected officials, changing the current system of party-rule (partidocracia) and ensuring that all sectors are properly represented within the system.
The result leaves the Lib Dem leader's hopes of changing the voting system in tatters.
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At a recent National Party conference, Mrs Shipley said she favoured changing the present system.
In announcing the package, the party indicated it would think about changing the tax system.
Councillors from Blaby are due to meet Roger Blackmore, Leicester City Council leader to discuss ways of changing the current system.
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That underlines the point that changing the welfare system in an effort to discourage lone parenthood may have other, less desirable, effects.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College leaders said that repeatedly changing the exam system was "unproductive and unhelpful".
There is cross-party support for changing the funding system as the parties agree that the current devolved funding settlement for Wales is no longer fit for purpose.
The question for last year's referendum on changing the voting system was changed after it was said it "encourages voters to consider one response more favourably than another".
But the rearguard action in favour of Nick Clegg was being staged just 12 hours before the counts started for the referendum on changing the voting system to AV.
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And while I think success for start-ups like hers is absolutely necessary for changing the food system, the ethos of the meeting put more value on helping others than on making money.
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