Sentences with phrase «bright pupils»

In addition, schools will be asked to allow some poorer bright pupils in 12 - plus and 13 - plus entry points.

The proposal, which aims to axe GCSEs and replace them with old - style O levels for brighter pupils and the simpler CSEs for the rest, was leaked to the Daily Mail yesterday.

A paper from the UCL Institute of Education shows that private tutoring means pupils from high - income families are much more likely to get into grammar schools than equally bright pupils from low - income families.

Sir Craig Tunstall, executive head teacher of the federation leading the Gipsy Hill bid, said they wanted to tackle the problem of bright pupils in primary school falling behind when they transfer to secondary school.

Over four in ten state school teachers rarely or never advise bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge

Additionally, the report advises that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, much of this is explained by prior levels of attainment, meaning that bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in grammars.

However Ofsted said bright pupils at Ipswich academy were not given hard enough work and students misbehaved in dull lessons

Ed has spoken about how the experience of seeing equally bright pupils, from less privileged backgrounds, failing to reach their potential had a profound impact on his politics and outlook.

There is no differentiation between bright pupils and those who are not so bright, says head teacher Beverley Mabey.

He said bright pupils in England were not getting enough opportunities, but grammar school tests were not reliable.

Thus if a school in a locality full of high - performing children bands in line with the national average, it could end up turning away bright pupils who live nearby in favour of less well performing ones from further away.

However, the apparent widespread coaching of pupils in private schools will fuel concerns that new grammars will continue to disadvantage poorer bright pupils.

But to support bright pupils in all schools — not just grammars — the Trust would like to see the government establish a highly able fund in comprehensive schools.

Other responses placed an emphasis on freedom and empowerment, as Brits proposed less restrictive uniform policies, treating students as individuals and helping bright pupils to achieve their true potential.

Other concerns include: schools spending more public money on lawyers to defend admissions policies; a 53 per cent rise in offers being withdrawn owing to fraudulent applications by parents; expensive banding systems used to take bright pupils at the expense of local children; and academy admissions arrangements that are unpublished or difficult to find.

Teachers reported even bright pupils could not finish the test as they said it was a «demoralising» experience for some.

There will be reforms to the free schools programme, a review of provision for excluded pupils, and a new fund to trial teaching approaches bright pupils, in a much - anticipated action plan Justine Greening will set out today.

In areas where there are large numbers of grammar schools, such as Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, many schools lose more than a fifth of their potential bright pupils to grammars.

See full story of how the «smartest» teachers end up in the schools with brightest pupils: Smart New teachers flock to coasting schools for an easier life

By offering the part - practical, part - theoretical qualifications in academic subjects as well as more vocational ones, the former Labour administration had hoped to make the diploma more attractive to academically brighter pupils.

Lessons were often not challenging enough for brighter pupils, they said, and there was a «lack of urgency» in taking action to close the gap between disadvantaged children and their classmates.

Some schools see this as a way of bright pupils «banking» good results early so they can concentrate on other GCSEs the following year.

On average, bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in grammars.

It even suggests giving priority to poor, bright pupils who meet certain entrance requirements and are eligible for the pupil premium because their families have been in receipt of certain benefits in the previous few years.

However, bright pupils in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland perform worse on average.

There could have been no cloud to disturb the tranquil blue skies of Saul's Pharisaism, and no reason to doubt that he would have returned to his native city one of the brightest pupils of his day.

Whilst there he learned under and alongside some of the game's brightest pupils and duly took his chance for success whilst at the helm of Porto, where he won the Champions League.

Britain should build «excellence academies» for the brightest pupils and introduce a national «debt brake» according to the Free Enterprise Group of backbench Conservatives.

About a half - hour into the film, after Allen establishes his standard, complicated love story, this time involving a «genius» philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix, with a heck of a gut), Jill, his brightest pupil (Emma Stone), who says she's in love with her boyfriend, and Rita, a married professor (Parker Posey), who all teach / attend the same Newport, R.I. university, «Irrational Man» takes a rather dark and very welcome turn.

Doing it this way enables the teachers (and brighter pupils) to alter the modelling equations.

Brighter pupils may be invited to calculate the acceleration at each point - and comment on the results.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «Through this Future Talent Fund, we will test new and innovative approaches so that we can find out what works best to ensure the brightest pupils from the most disadvantaged families can excel in their education.»

Just one - fifth (21 per cent) said they always advised their bright pupils to apply and a quarter (28 per cent) said they usually did.

43 per cent of state secondary school teachers say they would rarely or never advise their bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge, according to a new poll published by the Sutton Trust

Schools that have already developed a proven programme of support for their brightest pupils should be encouraged to support other schools in their region where highly able pupils underperform.

Just one - fifth (21 %) said they always advised their bright pupils to apply and a quarter (28 %) said they usually did, according to new polling published by the Sutton Trust.

Mr Petty suggested it was possible the brightest pupils were «not pushed enough» as schools only had to demonstrate a rise in overall A * - C pass rates to keep parents happy.

International performance data make it clear that even the best and brightest pupils in the Massachusetts school system, our top talent, fall far short of the best in the world.

Over four in ten (43 %) state secondary school teachers say they would rarely or never advise their bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge.

While England's highest achievers score above the median score for OECD countries in maths, science and reading, bright pupils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland perform, on average, worse.

Today's polling tells us that many state school teachers don't see Oxbridge as a realistic goal for their brightest pupils.

«While England's brightest pupils score around average in international tests — and better in science — this analysis shows that there are some very big socio - economic gaps in attainment between the brightest pupils from poor and better - off homes.

Secondary schools in areas where the brightest pupils are selected for grammar schools will be more likely to be classed as coasting under the government's newly revealed definitions.

A # 23 million fund to trial new teaching practices is being targeted at the brightest pupils because they «could do with a bit of extra help», Justine Greening has said.

He said this could mean that the brightest pupils had to be taught to write answers that were below their own ability level to get the highest grades.

Chairman of the National Grammar Schools Association Robert McCartney rejected suggestions grammars were not taking enough poor, bright pupils.

Grammar schools are no better for the brightest pupils than good comprehensives, according to new research which casts doubt on the government's claim that selective education aids social mobility.

The Sutton Trust, an education think - tank, is publishing new analysis on entry rates to grammar schools which shows that, on average, bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in grammar schools.

By admitting the brightest pupils in a geographical area, selective schools can also have the effect of «creaming off» academic talent, leaving nearby non-selective schools with less able intakes than those of similar schools in areas without selection.