Mr Clarke said he wanted new measures to deal with officers failing to meet expected standards.

Students are trained to ensure expected standards and adequate service delivery in the best practice of a profession.

Features considered advanced in a new game one year, become the expected standard the next year.

Is the system failing to achieve an expected standard of efficiency?

However, a third failed to achieve the expected standard - level four - in reading, writing and mathematics combined.

He concluded that "police performance did not meet an acceptable and expected standard of competence, professionalism and proficiency", and recommended a series of reforms.

For instance, 41% of boys on free school meals did not meet the expected standard in English, compared to 20% of other boys.

To preserve expected standards as far as possible, marriage will be delayed and family size kept small.

A norm is very much a general term, it is an expected standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group.

Often they will have to work in partnership with others to reach the expected standard of quality.