Sentences with phrase «at free schools»

That is why the progress made by pupils at free schools tends to be great — individual pupils receive a great deal of attention.

The revelations come as a number of problems have been emerging at some free schools in recent weeks and months.

Why aren't we looking at the free school model in Sweden?

• Your brief five lines on the government's retention of the 50 % cap on religious selection at free schools does scant justice to this humiliating retreat from an ill - considered commitment.

He recently coauthored a paper that found teachers at free schools gave more generous grades to their students than their peers at public schools, based on a comparison of external scoring of the same exams.

She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools.

The mother of two had expected Bradley, now 11, to get a place at free school Ealing Fields High — her first choice — which was due to open last September to reduce pressure on places across Ealing.

If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign.

Tina Allison, partner and schools and academies specialist at tax, audit and advisory firm Crowe Clarke Whitehill, looks at some of the strategies to improve governance at free schools

Education Secretary Michael Gove is to make the announcement at a free schools conference in London.

«Over # 1bn will have been spent on the free schools programme by March 2014, yet on opening, one in four desks at free schools were empty.»

But Education Secretary Michael Gove said the Ofsted inspection results were further evidence of the high standards at free schools.

But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.

While employed as a writing master at the Free School at Appleby, he devoted his spare time to the study of drawing and painting.

Humanists UK has called for a parliamentary inquiry on the Government's proposal to drop the 50 % cap on religious selection at free schools

Checks on inexperienced staff who want to be head teachers at free schools have been scrapped, despite warnings from civil servants.

In addition to this, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) general secretary, Mary Bousted, believes that the Chancellor is «throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools».

The 18 new schools are expected to create more than 9,000 places across the UK, bringing the total of places at free schools to 236,000.

Many of the pupils at the Free School have participated in the scheme and the charity's founder, Dr Tony Sewell, is also Chair of Governors at STEM Academy.

The deputy prime minister deliveried a speech today demanding that all teachers at free schools are qualified and that basic standards — especially for food — are also forced on the new institutions.

«Look at the free schools and academies that are bringing in diverse providers to create more excellent school places and getting some of the best results at GCSE.

The MPs urged the Secretary of State to drop the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection at free schools, stating that the cap is preventing new Catholic free schools from opening.

Instead of throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools, more children would benefit if the Government funded all state schools sufficiently, argues the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).