Recommendations have also been made to the MCA to review and clarify aspects of its survey and inspection policy for fishing vessels.

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In order to track which schools are leading the race to the cutting edge, The Princeton Review conducts an annual survey of collegiate computing capabilities, technology policies and coursework.

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The trust said its measures included suspending the governing body, undertaking a full review of the leadership structure, carrying out a staff and student survey and establishing a programme to improve the quality of teaching and marking.

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In a forthcoming article for Urban Affairs Review, a trio of researchers took survey data on local policies from nearly 300 California municipalities and ran it against foreclosure figures, a decade later. (You can find an earlier version of the paper here (PDF).) Cities that implemented slow growth or anti-growth policies in the late 1990s saw significantly fewer foreclosures between 2008 and 2009, the torrential center of the housing crisis.

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The council and other local authorities won a judicial review of the decision, forcing the government to order a condition survey of the nine Sandwell schools.

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To refine its ratings and reflect the importance of new emerging technologies, the Review made several changes to last year's survey, adding questions ranging from whether a school offers network access in dorm lounges to if it has a computer ethics policy in place.

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