What the Department for Transport appears to have got chronically wrong in the case of the West Coast Main Line franchise is its assessment of the risk that attaches to projections by bidders of revenues in the latter years of the 15-year franchise.

BBC: What derailed the Transport Department

The ICCS assessment framework consisted of two main elements: one pertaining to civic and citizenship education itself, the other to contextual factors.

UNESCO: Article on assesment

According to this Group, the main purposes of data collection in EFA is to assist national policy making and assessment of progress towards the Dakar goals.

UNESCO: Bulletin on EFA action worldwide No.45

In fact, a recent assessment by HSBC names 'tough operating conditions for businesses in Vietnam', as one of the main factors behind the slowing of the country's economic growth in the first quarter of the year.

BBC: Vietnamese not feeling effects of slowing inflation