He says the boards are complicit in lowering standards because of competition between them for business.
Unions fear part-time jobs will be axed, adding to the burden on remaining workers and lowering standards.
The boards are therefore obliged to compete with each other by lowering standards.
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"The results of the research encourage me to believe that the use of an SAT-type test could complement achievement tests such as A-levels and could broaden intake to British universities without lowering standards, " he said.
Ms Truss said she was "not anti-calculator", but claimed that their use may be lowering basic standards in maths.
Some critics have worried about states lowering their standards to attract industry.
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What we need to do is make sure that it is the red tape we are getting rid of and that is not a lowering of standards.
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But the odds are that the bank is either lowering its credit standards or undercharging for the risks it is taking.
In my opinion, you are absolutely correct in calling out the IPC for lowering grey literature standards rather than raising them.
When asked how they were responding to this phenomenon, 43% said that they were actually lowering their credit standards in order to fill vacancies.
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Wallison had said that government policy had pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into lowering their lending standards in pursuit of lending to riskier borrowers.
While we knew that some people could not afford to make the home purchases that they did, we did not recognize that their numbers would be swelled by the simultaneous lowering of underwriting standards, changes in accounting rules and a slowing economy diminishing the income potential of both new buyers and current owners.
Without lowering our minimum hiring standards, we needed to identify those applicants with a high level of relationship-building skills.
There have been previous efforts to build sensor nets by various private companies, but, like the Internet and Wi-Fi, Zigbee uses open standards, lowering the costs and risks associated with building the technology.
The EPA will decide soon on changing the standards for arsenic by 2000, lowering the acceptable limit of arsenic from 50 micrograms per liter to possibly 10 micrograms per liter.
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