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PRONUNCIATION OF BEACON STATUS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEACON STATUS

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beacon status is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEACON STATUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Beacon Status

Beacon Status is a learning and skills recognition of the excellence and innovation which exists within the Learning and Skills sector for the United Kingdom. The award congratulates learning providers that deliver outstanding teaching and learning and are well led and managed. It is for providers funded by the Learning and Skills Council and inspected by the Office for Standards in Education or the Adult Learning Inspectorate. The status is held for three years. It was launched by the Department for Education and Skills in partnership with the Learning and Skills Council in 2002. The scheme is now managed by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service. Beacons are drawn from general, tertiary colleges, sixth forms, work based learning providers and adult community learning providers.

Definition of beacon status in the English dictionary

The definition of beacon status in the dictionary is a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEACON STATUS

beach party
beach plum
beach towel
beach umbrella
Beach-la-Mar
beachboy
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
beachfront
beachgoer
beachhead
beachside
beachwear
beachy
Beachy Head
beacon
beacon light
beacon school

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEACON STATUS

afflatus
amateur status
apparatus
breathing apparatus
celebrity status
comitatus
Golgi apparatus
heating apparatus
hiatus
mammatus
marital status
national status
Pilatus
posse comitatus
quadratus
refugee status
serratus
single status
status
stratus

Synonyms and antonyms of beacon status in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beacon status» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEACON STATUS

Find out the translation of beacon status to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beacon status from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beacon status» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

航标状态
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estado de la baliza
570 millions of speakers

English

beacon status
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीकन स्थिति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وضع منارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

статус маяк
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indicador de status do
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বীকন অবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

statut de la balise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Status suar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leuchtfeuer -Status
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビーコン状況
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신호 상태
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Status beacon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình trạng đèn hiệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெக்கான் நிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बीकन स्थिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Işaret ışığı durumu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stato faro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Status nawigacyjny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

статус маяк
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

statutul de far
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάσταση φάρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

baken status
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beacon status
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

beacon status
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beacon status

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEACON STATUS»

The term «beacon status» is normally little used and occupies the 130.866 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEACON STATUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beacon status» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beacon status» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beacon status

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEACON STATUS»

Discover the use of beacon status in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beacon status and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reviving Local Democracy: New Labour, New Politics?
A council with beacon status for a particular service will be given wider discretion in how that service is managed and delivered. For example, a council could be given more freedom to make capital investment in its beacon service, subject to ...
Nirmala Rao, 2000
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Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health
Beacon status is granted to those authorities who can demonstrate a clear vision, excellent services and a willingness to innovate within a specific theme. However , to obtain beacon status applicants must also demonstrate that they have good ...
Stephen Battersby, W.H. Bassett, 2004
3
Urban Planning and Real Estate Development
The government promoted in the 2000s, alongside 'best value', the notion of ' Beacon status' to reflect good practice and innovation. Such innovation placed considerable weight on new ways of achieving both efficiency (in the delivery of a  ...
John Ratcliffe, Michael Stubbs, Mark Shepherd, 2004
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The Routledge Encyclopaedia of UK Education, Training and ...
See also: Skills Pledge BINARY SYSTEM BEACON COLLEGES Colleges with excellent inspection reports, and which took account of those serving deprived areas, received Beacon status. Beacon colleges receive monies from the Standards ...
John P. Wilson, 2013
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Constitutional Change in the UK
Such Beacon status, which would be awarded only after a rigorous assessment of performance by officials, auditors and an independent advisory panel, would be for a fixed period (perhaps three or five years) at the end of which the Council  ...
Nigel Forman, 2003
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Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom
Such Beacon status, which would be awarded only after a rigorous assessment of performance by officials, auditors and an independent advisory panel, would be for a fixed period (perhaps three or five years) at the end of which the Council  ...
F. N. Forman, 2002
7
Conditions of School Performance in Seven Countries
Schools are 'invited' to receive Beacon status by the DfES. To be short-listed for Beacon status by the DfES, schools have had to meet strict selection criteria, identifying schools that are high performing, providing a good quality of education ...
Hans Döbert, Hans Döbert, Eckhard Klieme, Wendelin Sroka, Eckhard Klieme
8
Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations: A ...
This collaborative knowledge creation was found to depend critically on enabling conditions for knowledge transfer in the both the originating organisation (the system with Beacon status) and the recipient organisation (the system seeking to  ...
Trisha Greenhalgh, Glenn Robert, Paul Bate, 2008
9
Measuring Customer Service Effectiveness
Beacon status is granted to those organisations who can demonstrate a clear vision, excellent services and a willingness to innovate within a specific theme. However, to obtain beacon status, applicants must demonstrate that they have good ...
Sarah Cook, 2004
10
System Leadership In Practice
They were given assurances by the SMT that, if Beacon status produced either, the school would come out of the programme. A review at re-designation showed staff had been paid for extra time, results had gone up and a range of staff had ...
Higham, Rob, Hopkins, David, Matthews, Peter, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEACON STATUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beacon status is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cambridge care home The Hope to close by end of July - but …
It is the only Beacon status care home in Cambridgeshire – the highest accreditation by the Gold Standard Framework. Sister Corbett added: ... «Cambridge News, Jun 15»
2
Closure of Cambridge care home The Hope would be a 'tragedy …
Managed by the Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), the home is the only Beacon status care home in Cambridgeshire – the highest ... «Cambridge News, Jun 15»
3
Bluetooth Beacons Have a Place in a Radio Station's Promotion …
(The apps must implement Apple's iBeacons APIs to communicate beacon status with the OS.) Now here's the payoff: “...Beacons aren't about ... «Radio magazine, Jun 15»
4
Homestays hunt for internationals
As a top performing institution, Collyer's has Beacon status and enjoys an “Outstanding” rating from Ofsted. Report and pictures contributed by ... «West Sussex Gazette, May 15»
5
Quite a Kee to success
The programme carries Beacon status awarded by the Quality Improvement Agency, and grade ones across the board by the Adult Learning ... «BQ Live, May 15»
6
Nostalgia: Mixed fortunes for KGV as school enters the 21st century
The college was one of only 25 organisations nationally to be awarded Learning and Skills Beacon status in May, 2003, and in February, 2004 ... «Southport Visiter, Mar 15»
7
Last chance to enter your business into Toast of Surrey 2015
It achieved Beacon Status for its adoption of sustainable energy practices and tackling climate change locally, and has introduced a number of ... «Get Surrey, Feb 15»
8
Medical man looks back at career improving Sheffield's health
Sheffield won 'Beacon Status' in 2014 for the city's work in addressing health inequality, a win masterminded by Dr Wight. “We were very proud ... «The Star, Jan 15»
9
Sheffield Council's director of public health Jeremy Wight …
Under his leadership, Sheffield Council boasted winning 'Beacon Status' for tackling health inequalities in Sheffield, in 2007. For the past two ... «The Star, Jan 15»
10
Lady and Lord Palmer share their memories
She served as cabinet member for community development, and was responsible for libraries and parks – which received Beacon Status ... «Times Series, Dec 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Beacon status [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/beacon-status>. May 2024 ».
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