Sentences with phrase «as the pupil premium»

He could also list «lots of other big items» such as the pupil premium, the tax threshold rise and the increase in apprenticeships.

Policy achievements — such as the pupil premium, free school meals, the increase in the tax allowance and so on — tend to be in micro areas of public policy that are invisible to most voters.

The other cuts being discussed, such as ID cards and trident, are going to save money to do other things, including reducing the deficit and paying for other spending commitments, such as the pupil premium.

Other topics, such as pupil premium, green subsidies and NHS reorganisation were the small change of government.

I am sure that the new Government's commitment to such measures as the pupil premium and support for further education colleges and universities will give the young people of my constituency the educational opportunity that will make them more socially mobile, raise their aspirations, unlock untapped potential and let individuals take control of their own lives once more.

As he outlined his party's work on issues such as the pupil premium, Teach First and cutting red tape for social workers, he returned after a significant hiatus to reference Joseph once again.

The report is particularly badly timed for the Lib Dems, who argued this morning that they sacrificed policies like tuition fees in order to secure items such as the pupil premium in the coalition negotiations.

Whilst the frontline schools budget has been protected and policies such as the pupil premium allocate more funding to low income pupils, cuts to central services provided by local government will require schools to do more with less.

The effectiveness of targeted funding such as the pupil premium, and its relationship to core education funding.

This tool is a searchable database of every school in England, which can be divided by local authority or area, which displays school attainment and progress data, in addition to destinations data and contextual data (such as pupil premium eligibility, EAL, and SEND).

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As the government is committed to devolving power towards schools, encouraging them to act as autonomous institutions collaborating with each other, we will not be compelling schools to spend the pupil premium in certain wayAs the government is committed to devolving power towards schools, encouraging them to act as autonomous institutions collaborating with each other, we will not be compelling schools to spend the pupil premium in certain wayas autonomous institutions collaborating with each other, we will not be compelling schools to spend the pupil premium in certain ways.

My personal favourite is the Arts pupil premium in schools, something would transform education especially as the Tories have squeezed arts, music and culture out the curriculum.

The pupil premium — a key Lib Dem pledge in 2010 — is held up as a success for the party.

And, in the meantime, poorer people will be protected against public sector pay conditions; their children will get a pupil premium; and they will gain disproportionately from tax cuts - as well as, of course, from the welfare state.

He is the architect of the government's pupil premium policy from within the Lib Dems, and it's easy to see him forming an effective partnership with the liberally inclined Michael Gove, as well as bolstering the Lib Dem's policy power roaming Whitehall.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

The survey is being released as teachers at the NASUWT's Annual Conference, which is being held in Cardiff, prepare to debate a motion on the pupil premium this weekend.

«As head of maths, I am frequently asked about pupil premium interventions but I have no additional resources for this.»

The coalition is expanding its pupil premium, as part of a bid to narrow educational attainment between the richest and poorest in society.

The pupil premium of # 600 a year is widely seen as a cornerstone of the coalition's education policy in England.

Nevertheless, the Orange Book liberals have left their mark with Coalitions policies such as free schools and the pupil premium.

He rattled off a list of achievements that, as usual, was headed by a higher tax threshold and the so - called pupil premium.

He cited the government's policies of raising the tax threshold, increasing the state pension and improvements to the pupil premium as demonstrating their commitment to helping alleviate the effects of poverty.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

«Pupil premium»: More funding for poorer children from outside schools budget, as demanded by Lib Dems

While the party leadership promote changes to the tax threshold, the pupil premium and green investment bank as evidence of success, 74 % of those who voted for the party in 2010 (but have since defected) believe that the party has had little or no influence on government decisions.

The Liberal Democrats see the commitment to the pupil premium as one of their big wins, but if it is not funded properly it could be damaging for the coalition.

Adoption UK has been calling for better use of pupil premium in England for some time, following instances where it was not used not as intended, such as purchasing new uniforms for adopted children in some schools.

Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said: «in many cases pupil premium funding has been used to plug gaps that have occurred as a result of squeezed budgets».

From September 2018, schools and colleges will receive an extra # 600 premium for each additional pupil taking the one - year AS maths or the Core Maths qualification.

The survey also found that one in five teachers did not know what the main priorities for their pupil premium funding was, with early intervention schemes cited as the most common priority for spending, identified by 28 per cent of respondents.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

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To overcome the financial barriers we have a range of strategies: we advertise our trips three years in advance along with our suggestions as to the most beneficial (language trips, outdoor education trips and trips linked specifically to their GCSEs) so that parents can prioritise accordingly; we reduce the costs for pupil premium students by using the additional money given to us by the government; we are flexible with payment plans; we allow in - school fundraising for certain trips; and we keep supplemental costs (for example kit and transport) very low by doing our own fundraising for those items.

«Manually tracked information does not allow for accurate reporting on money received and can also be difficult to track student grants or pupil premium reductions for things such as trips,» Jarvis said.

«The pupil premium should be used for highly cost - effective interventions such as peer tutoring and pupil feedback, as shown by the Sutton Trust - EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit.»

Pupil premium funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents understand the school system.

It would also tend to give even higher levels of tuition fee income to the most prestigious courses and institutions - described by Lord Willetts as a «reverse pupil premium».

In a high proportion of the schools, pupil premium money, intended as extra funding for disadvantaged pupils, is now being used to «prop up core budgets» they say.

The rules of eligibility, as clearly explained on the website, are simple: «All state - funded primary, middle and secondary schools in receipt of pupil premium funding with published key stage 2 or key stage 4 data will be automatically entered where you have an overall Ofsted inspection judgement for effectiveness of 1 or 2.

6 % of teachers reported this as the main priority for their school's pupil premium spending, an increase from 2 % in 2015.

The government should introduce a means tested voucher system, as part of the pupil premium, through which lower income families could purchase additional educational support for pupils, such as extra-curricular tuition.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «Schools will continue to receive pupil premium funding on the same basis as now.»

Mulholland said the government had also missed an opportunity by not raising the early years pupil premium to the same level as for primary school pupils, adding: «This is something NAHT has been consistently lobbying for, given the importance of early years in laying the foundations for education.»

This new analysis has been welcomed as providing more detail, although there have been warnings from some education groups that the new work on ordinary working families will reduce the focus on the disadvantaged families who are eligible for pupil premium.

The pupil premium of # 600 a year is widely seen as a cornerstone of the coalition's education policy in England.

Reality Check says: The government defines «ordinary working families» as those that are not eligible for pupil premium but have below average incomes.

This could be because it is being seen as a softener for some areas of the country but it does mean that when asked if we want a deprivation factor to be included, the answer has to be yes on the basis of the hint that pupil premium may not exist after the next general election.

Speaking in Nottinghamshire, Mrs May said the Conservatives were making their own funding guarantees - such as protecting the # 2.5 bn pupil premium for disadvantaged families - but that it wasn't simply a question of extra resources.

Funds for SEND pupils also ought to be ring - fenced and monitored, as with the pupil premium for children on free school meals, he said.