• Ofsted said the inspections were being carried out to find out why there were differences in standards between local authorities with similar demographics, such as population and levels of deprivation.

    BBC: Coventry primary schools face inspections

  • The States will ask people for their views on how to control population levels ahead of a debate in March.

    BBC: Cap on Jersey population possible says minister

  • The health board also said it was having difficulty coping with capacity at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh because of rising population levels in Lothian.

    BBC: Hospital ward

  • It is the same story for the European bison, which was limited to just a few zoos before re-introduction programs across eastern Europe helped re-build the population to current levels of around 1, 800.

    CNN: All creatures great, small and disappearing

  • Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.

    CNN: Former president demands foes leave Yemen

  • Discounting foreign companies, government offices and aid groups, the number tumbles to 14, 500, or less than 0.02% of the population - among the world's lowest levels of usage.

    CNN: Stops and Starts

  • We believe that continued high levels of population growth, demographic shift and growing middle-class in Asia Pacific region will continue to offer DuPont an expanding market for its Agricultural based products over our forecast period.

    FORBES: Emerging Markets Lifting DuPont Stock Up To $59

  • The current recommendation is based on unique conditions associated with the existing pandemic, including low levels of population immunity to 2009 H1N1, the potential for health-care personnel to be exposed to H1N1 patients, and other factors, Dimond says.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • In recent years, the government of Uganda has made concerted attempts to reduce the levels of illiteracy among its population through Universal Primary Education (UPE) for children and Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) for adults and out-of-school youth.

    UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)

  • While a study is currently in progress at this point in time with the same research group linked below, specific to those with autism spectrum disorders, the linked research suggests that language development delays in the general population are associated with high levels of prenatal testosterone among males but high levels of prenatal testosterone among females provides a protective effect for language development.

    FORBES: Is Being Female Protective Against Autism?

  • For example, in the island nation of Papua New Guinea, an increase in population growth coupled with rising sea levels is decreasing the amount of crop land making farming very difficult for the indigenous people of the region, according to the U.N.

    CNN: 'Climate change' forces Eskimos to abandon village

  • While the average metabolite levels of the pregnant women in the study were substantially higher than the national average, as many as 25% of pregnant women in the general population have levels above the study average.

    CNN: Pesticide exposure in womb may hurt your child's IQ

  • Instead, they found high caffeine levels near Carl Washburne State Park and Cape Lookout, two areas not near the potential pollution sources, and low levels of caffeine near large population centers such as Astoria, Warrenton and Coos Bay.

    CNN: Researchers find caffeine in waters off Oregon

  • Additionally, the population is nearing 80 percent of pre-Katrina levels, in part due to hardworking residents who came back and a new crop of younger, entrepreneurial transplants moving to the city to be part of what is going on here.

    CNN: New Orleans is storming back

  • Again, China was only at 1976 U.S. air passenger traffic levels in 2009 (and decades further back as a percentage of the population), and Credit Suisse projects China to reach 1986-1987 U.S. levels, or 432 million people, by 2015.

    FORBES: The Biggest Winner In China In 2015? E-Commerce.

  • The largest generation in our population, the boomers, rotating to lower levels of employment if any at all.

    FORBES: Improving Employment Picutre Masks Lousy Demographics

  • It claims wage disparity between the UK's top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to Victorian levels.

    BBC: Newspaper review: Arrest of IMF chief explored

  • Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said the government was looking for radical solutions to the "chronic problems" of congestion and rising traffic levels due to population growth and under-investment.

    BBC: Road pricing: More new roads could be funded by tolls

  • The U.S. could easily reduce the tax-filing population to pre-World War II levels by dropping two-thirds of taxpayers from the drudgery of filing annual returns.

    WSJ: Jay Starkman: Many Unhappy Returns��Millions of Them

  • Ten years later, the prison population has increased by 60% to 74, 000 but overall levels of serious crime recorded by the police have doubled (see chart).

    ECONOMIST: Prisons

  • But he said ministers did not know what the impact of a recession would be on the prison population, saying previous recessions had resulted in different outcomes in terms of crime levels.

    BBC: Jail reformers 'forget victims'

  • Researchers at the House of Commons library had concluded that "in England and Wales increases in prison population have tended to occur at a similar time to falls in levels of recorded crime", he added.

    BBC: Minister rebuts MPs' claim on effectiveness of prison

  • The oyster population in the Chesapeake today stands at just 1% of its pre-1980 levels.

    ECONOMIST: A dozen ocean-cleaners and a pint of Guinness, please

  • Experts estimate that as much as 2% of the population meets the criteria, a group that spans all education and income levels.

    WSJ: Compulsive Hoarding Affects up to 2% of the Population

  • The Eurostat data agency says levels of unemployment now stand at 8.9% of the population who are eligible for work, up from 8.7% in February.

    BBC: EU unemployment hits 20 million

  • Well, it matters because the government wants to spend billions of pounds on roads, based on the assumption that there will be a 44% rise in traffic levels by 2035, mainly because of a big rise in the population.

    BBC: Which way forward for Britain's car and rail travel?

  • In a study of 26 stockbrokers he conducted a decade ago, Mr. Cass found nearly one-quarter had clinical levels of depression, more than three times the rate among the general population.

    WSJ: Warning: Banking May Be Hazardous to Your Health

  • However, because the population is growing, that number is well below the rate of job creation needed to maintain employment levels.

    BBC: US retail sales see fall in March

  • Asking them, along with the rest of the developing world, to go back to 2000 emission levels with a 2050 population would mean putting them on a very drastic energy diet.

    FORBES: Uncommon Sense

  • There is a way States and CMS can ensure that the cost of coverage for the Medicaid expansion population enrolled via Health Insurance Exchanges is comparable to Medicaid-levels, not commercial premiums or the premiums charged others in the Exchange.

    FORBES: Arkansas: Replacing Medicaid Expansion with Obamacare's Exchanges Could Require 'No Additional Federal Costs At All'

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