Sentences with phrase «aged pupils in»

«White British pupils make up 70.9 per cent of all secondary - aged pupils but only 65.9 per cent of secondary - aged pupils in selective schools.»

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

Will he acknowledge that white British pupils make up 70.9 % of all secondary - age pupils but only 65.9 % of secondary - age pupils in selective schools?

This is a particular cause for concern, given that the secondary school - age pupils in England is expected to rise by 19 per cent over the next eight years.

Not exact matches

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segPupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segpupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

At the age of fifteen, he became a pupil in a school at Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethren.

On the continent, «the world come of age», «religionless Christianity», «true worldliness» have tempted Bonhoeffer's former pupils, now in theological faculties or church administration, towards cultic passions.

In the opening pages of The Philosopher's Pupil we come upon a middle - aged man who is attempting to kill his wife by pushing her car into a canal.

Church of England school pupils are lagging behind students in Jewish and Muslim classrooms when it comes to the exams they take when they're aged six and seven, new government statistics reveal.

Over 900 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 currently attend Corpus Christi Catholic College, which was judged «good with some outstanding features» as part of its last OFSTED inspection in 2010.

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

All infant pupils will receive free school meals; and practical cookery will be compulsory in the new national curriculum up to age 14.

This should be calculated using the number of places in the provision which are used by pupils in the school (as opposed to pupils on the rolls of other schools) excluding places occupied by under 5s and pupils aged 16 to 19, although authorities can use a different basis if this is agreed by EFA.

Consequently, the number of pupils aged under 16, on which the pre-16 formula funding for the mainstream school is based, should exclude those pupils in the provision.

Motivating teachers and giving them confidence to implement the new computing curriculum will in turn support pupils to gain the technical skills they need to succeed in a digital age.»

«For example, most of the primary school teachers have not taught before and the head of the primary school is experienced in teaching secondary - aged pupils only.»

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

There are a number of possible explanations for these trends and the fact check is correct when it states that the improvement in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11 can not be specifically attributed to the pupil premium.

Throughout the 1970s, there was considerable pressure to merge the systems - particularly since the raising of the age of compulsory education to 16 considerably increased the number of pupils in a position to obtain qualifications.

It is at an early age that low aspirations commonly become ingrained in pupils.»

The Budding Brunels project is an opportunity to excite and inform pupils in Year 12 (aged 16 - 17) about the building and engineering professions.

«All the evidence shows that the well - documented gap in attainment between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers begins at an early age.

It provides # 300 for every child from a disadvantaged background in a maintained early years education setting to help tackle the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils which develops from an early age.

«It is a fact that at age five the poorest pupils here in Wales are already falling behind those in England.

The manifesto also proposed a large increase in public spending on education, which would allow for the school leaving age to be increased to 18 and reduce average class sizes to 19 pupils.

In Wales a similar scheme, created by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and known as the Pupil Deprivation Grant is worth # 918 for each child over the age of five eligible for free school meals.

About a 30 % increase in average expenditure per pupil (over four years, between age seven and 11) is expected to produce an increase in achievement of a level equivalent to 25 - 30 points on the PISA scale.

The new spelling and grammar test for eleven year olds has been prepared to an excellent standard, as set out in this technical paper, and the new provision for teaching multiplication tables by the age of eight, for most pupils as crucial to success in maths as phonics are to success in English, has not attracted the widespread criticism that our opponents expected.

Children in special educational needs • 1.7 million school - age children, which is one in five pupils in England, are identified as having special educational needs.

Calculators have been banned in maths Sats tests in England this year for Year 6 pupils - aged 10 and 11 years.

The study said any advantages gained by pupils attending free schools in Sweden failed to translate into «greater educational success» beyond the age of 16.

Many pupils in this age bracket lack skills in mental arithmetic, which hampers the development of skills in more abstract areas such as algebra.

The textbooks would become more sophisticated for higher ages of pupils, and at some point would also introduce the MDGs or the future SDGs, including ways for the young people to contribute to achieving them, in their local community, their country, region, other countries and regions, and the world as a whole.

Even though the UK fares better in the bracket of lower secondary education (aged 10 - 13) its 14.3 pupils per teacher is only lower than the Netherlands (16.0) and France (15.1) in the EU, with the average being 12.6.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

Across secondary schools in England, the research shows that 78 per cent of secondary school teachers surveyed by the National Foundation for Education Research say their school offers volunteering programmes to build their pupils» life skills, but just eight per cent of pupils aged 11 - 16 in England and Wales surveyed by Ipsos MORI say they take part in these sorts of extra-curricular activities.

It should consider many factors such as IT that already exists in the school, finance, curriculum and pupil age, to create a holistic strategy for the 21st Century.

The Council is the largest in the UK to retain a mainly selective school system, with 25 per cent of secondary school age pupils attending one of the 33 grammar schools in the area.

Our analysis finds that for children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years reduces the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood by 6.1 percentage points.

This is for pupils in the 14 - 18 age range.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

The study evaluated 90 English primary schools and 50 secondaries where it was taught to more than 10,000 pupils in Year 1 (aged five - six) and Year 7 (11 - 12).

Because of the Schmidt speech, BCS working in partnership with CAS, has been able to successfully engage with DfE and help persuade them that computer science, together with digital literacy, really are essential for every pupil from the age of five.

Smaller trials resulted in an improvement in pupils» reading ages of between three and five months.

In addition, Catch - Up Literacy, which will be led by teaching assistants, is a one - to - one literacy intervention for pupils between the ages of six and 14.

According to the United Nations, 76 developing countries have enough schools to educate all primary school - age children, but only one - third (27) keep their pupils for the duration of the course, and, some countries have seen declines in completion rates.

The legal responsibilities are strict and can be onerous, depending on the age of pupils in the school.

Specifically, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases the probability of high school graduation by 7 percentage points for all students, by roughly 10 percentage points for low - income children, and by 2.5 percentage points for nonpoor children.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases family income by 17.1 percent.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.