In his presentation David Atchoarena reviewed some of the reasons UNESCO gives such high priority to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
Schools are a high priority to many folks considering this category, and the best American K-12 public schools tend to be found in the Upper Midwest--the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
As a result, IT has moved from a low-priority to high-priority, a cost center to a profit center, non-strategic to strategic.
Utilizing a similar approach, we began by compiling a short list of the key threat classes that we considered high priority due to either their attack potency or incidence rates in the wild.
Others considered to be high priority are students aged five to 19, those with medical conditions, especially chronic respiratory and coronary diseases, and pregnant women.
In the U.K., the Cobra committee, which manages responses to high-priority security issues, convened to discuss potential repercussions and the country told its foreign embassies and military bases to review their security.
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Airlines are giving priority to high-yield business routes to and from Heathrow.
Most voters also placed a high priority on his proposals to lengthen the school day or year, to pay better teachers more money and to require a new competency exam for teachers.
It is one of the most powerful instruments, perhaps the most powerful instrument, that China has at its disposal in the near term to both counter inflationary pressures, which is a very high priority for them, and also to shift to domestic, demand-led growth.
Stabilization of Somalia is a high priority in our common efforts to secure regional peace and stability.
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Did something happen to move the job search from a low to a high priority on that day?
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Our engineering team is fairly small, and there are a lot of high-priority tasks that need to get finished.
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The challenge, in many cases, is placing ethics high enough on their priority list to adapt existing tools toward encouraging what's right.
In addition, from a purely operational perspective, concentrating on a single, ultra-high priority program enables a company to bring its best resources to bear, rather than spreading them out across multiple competing initiatives.
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For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.
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Or maybe you have reasons why watching TV needs to be a high priority.
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An airlift has been set up to deliver high-priority items like water and medicine.
Obama said last month that he's made it a "high priority" for his transition team to work on additional policy options for the auto industry.
In 2002 OMB did not attempt to define "high priority" reforms for two reasons: (1) the large volume of nominations exceeded the capabilities of OIRA staff to evaluate them and (2) the agencies, we felt, might take greater ownership of reforms if they determined which were to be treated as a priority.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
By consolidating spending on prevention, the Wellness Trust would bring resources to bear on high-priority services.
The high priority areas should be those processes crucial to value creation in which you are behind or falling behind.
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These high-priority IT spending areas are core to our strategic focus and represent market segments where EMC has established leadership positions and competitive advantage.
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"In the meantime, for the forthcoming flu season, our priority remains to ensure a high uptake rate is achieved in the at risk groups including pregnant women, " he added.
Providing access to financial services remains a high priority for the government.
When workers spend most of their time on high-priority projects, it's important to designate a time to clear away the cobwebs and resolve any old issues.
In South Korea, a finance-ministry bigwig says his urgent priority is to persuade young ministry high-flyers, who invariably apply for an American posting, to go to India instead.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the vaccine for certain high-priority groups because they are more likely to have serious complications if they develop swine flu.
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