Ofsted's report on maths teaching, published at the end of last year, said too much of it was "taught to the test" and that this did not equip pupils for their futures.
"Strategies to improve test and examination performance, coupled with teaching that focuses heavily on preparation for the qualifications, does not equip pupils for their futures, " says the booklet destined for secondary schools.
Burhan Ghalioun, the professorial leader of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, has pledged to oversee and organise the rebels, but not to equip them.
We need to be doing more, not less, to equip our workers with the skills and training they need in the 21st century.
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Would it not make sense to equip children whose job in society is to learn with a device that adds joy as well as quality, quantity and speed to learning?
It sounded like he was saying he does not want to arm or equip the rebels.
Mr. Prime Minister, we discussed how the United States could help Iraq train and equip its forces -- not by stationing American troops there or with U.S. bases in Iraq -- those days are over -- but rather, the kind of training and assistance we offer to other countries.
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These subjects equip learners with social skills necessary not only for peaceful co-existence and non-violent conflict resolution or management but also for community development and poverty reduction.
WITNESS, a not-for-profit group, to try to train and equip activists all over the world to use video to document abuses.
Caltech's grant was for finding a way to equip the body to fight a disease that it may not be prepared to tackle, such as AIDS. Most vaccines and therapies try to bulk up the body's existing defenses, say, by boosting the immune system.
But that should be in the sense of what might be called "conservative realism" - in accordance with which the United States needs to equip itself and behave in light of the way the world really is, not on the basis of some fantasy about how it might be if only we disarmed.
In a society that in effect says to the victims, it's your responsibility to re-equip yourself for the American labor force, we are telling you now that you are not properly equipped, in effect that you do not have value as a worker, that's the message in a layoff.
It is not just Egypt where the universities provide training for public-sector jobs that are no longer abundant yet fail to equip students with what they need to thrive in a market economy.
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