IBM’s donation of a million dollars (626,000 pounds) to Britain’s education service is likely to spread good education practice beyond the Beacon schools where it is to be directed.The multi-national, which has spent forty million dollars world-wide on such projects, has announced that it’s donating the money over the next two years, initially to fifty schools. 

The Health Secretary has given details of the new body being set up to safeguard standards of long term care in both the public and private sector.It is to accept the broad recommendations of a recent Royal Commission and set up a National Care Commission.
Its task will be to ensure consistent standards across the service, inspect, investigate complaints and report on these.
It will also set national standards and report each year on performance against those standards. 

Bradford, David L., Stanford Univ. / Cohen, Allan R., Babson CollegeThis management classic shows how middle managers–not just senior level executives–can break the mediocrity barrier and energize lackluster performance by enacting standards of excellence that motivate employees and transform organizations into industry leaders.