Should there be set targets and goals appropriate for their level of skill in being social?
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The government has set targets of devolving up to 85% of school budgets directly to school heads.
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The white paper will require local authorities to set targets for improving services.
His key role will be to try and help residents set targets of where they want to spend the money.
Under the present British system, hospitals are set targets for the length of wait regardless of the urgency of treatment.
Despite a 1991 European Union directive which set targets for inter-operability between national rail systems, little progress has been made.
In 2003 the Welsh government set targets to halt the decline, and to increase the proportion of Welsh speakers 5% by 2011.
Between 2003, when California set targets for renewable energy production, and 2011, the state has installed 2, 871 megawatts of renewable energy capacity.
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"You set targets all the time and it gives the manager the opportunity to get the 19th title now, " he told BBC Sport.
In 1998 the government set targets to reduce the number of women who smoke during pregnancy from 23% in 1995 to 15% by 2010.
He has set targets of at least one female executive per company and offered tax incentives to companies that encourage mothers to return to work.
But wise politicians set targets they are confident can be achieved.
It said that schools should be set targets by the government to increase the proportion of girls studying physics from the current national average of just one in five.
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Ministers have urged the UK's 350 largest public companies to set targets against which progress in boosting female representation on boards and executive committees can be judged.
It would also require all new buildings to be installed with solar panels on their roofs and it would set targets for expanding micro-power across Scotland's local authority areas.
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The company has even set targets to increase diversity among its employees, and given warning that executives will forfeit part of their bonuses if the targets are not met.
The government has set targets to improve the number of nurses on the wards and aims to train more, persuade more to return to the job and attract more from overseas.
CO2 is our currency rather than cash, so people raising sponsorship can set targets and their friends can see what tangible contribution their supporting action is having, both individually and collectively.
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Following a "transplant summit", he also set targets of doubling the number of kidney transplants, and increasing the number of heart, lung and liver transplants by 10% over the next five years.
Ministers have urged the UK's 350 largest public companies to set targets against which progress in boosting female representation on boards and executive committees can be judged, but have rejected calls for quotas.
The manipulation of hospital waiting lists in order to meet government-set targets is inexcusable, but those quick to criticise the individuals involved may not be aware of the repressive nature of central NHS management.
Negotiators are struggling in The Hague this week to hammer out rules on implementing a pact sealed in Kyoto, Japan, three years ago that set targets for cutting greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide implicated in climate change.
The research, carried out by psychologists at the University of London's Institute of Education, suggests that schools which equate "effectiveness" with good exam results for the majority of pupils may direct resources towards those likely to reach government-set targets.
At the Adderley School they have adopted the testing and targeting ethic with a vengeance, and meetings to set targets are a regular feature of school life - but even here there are worries about applying blanket standards to circumstances that can change.
But US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the targets set out at the Okinawa summit were not only to relieve Third World debt but to offer basic education to all the world's children within 15 years and set new targets to combat killer diseases.
If the venture is successful, the targets set are the targets reached.
"Part of the difficulty with 3G and indeed in many cases 2G coverage has been that Ofcom set national targets for coverage and I'm delighted to see that Ofcom in respect of 4G have set a Northern Ireland target which will hopefully mean that there's more coverage, " the minister said.
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