Sentences with phrase «by the pupil premium»
England actually fares quite well on this measure — aided by the pupil premium, and a new funding formula that is underpinned broadly by progressive principles.
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«Children who are from very low income families have the cost of these trips etc covered by pupil premium funding.
They capture the achievement of disadvantaged pupils covered by the pupil premium.
Not exact matches
Ms Teather told the Fatherhood Institute: «The pupil premium that we are introducing will provide additional money for the most deprived pupils: by 2014/15 this premium will be worth # 2.5 billion.
A pupil premium will be established for disadvantaged youngsters by taking money from other budgets.
«Parents should be deeply concerned by the Coalition Government's refusal to date to introduce any safeguards that would ensure that any additional funding arising from a pupil premium benefits the pupils for whom it was intended.»
«With the savage cuts that will undoubtedly be announced by the Chancellor in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review, the introduction of the pupil premium will represent nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Democrats who originally advocated this policy.
Clegg's so - called «pupil premium» is a con, robbing Peter to pay Paul by shifting cash around in a shrinking education budget.
Ms Teather is set to announce that all those eligible for free school meals within the last six months will also be covered by the premium, benefiting a further 500,000 pupils.
«In the long - term, the underlying causes of poverty must be tackled by investing in education for the most disadvantaged by introducing the pupil premium.»
We will fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere.
He rattled off a list of achievements that, as usual, was headed by a higher tax threshold and the so - called pupil premium.
The overall spend on pupil premium rose to # 1.25 billion by the end of the coalition.
One school was praised by Ofsted for using money from the pupil premium to pay for a number of cultural trips to Saudi Arabia.
Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.
The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.
By 2014/15 the government will be spending # 2.5 bn on the premium, but I would personally like to see funding in the next parliament grow towards # 5bn per year, to cover more pupils and to ensure that schools have the resources to match the very tough challenges.
«Pupil premium»: More funding for poorer children from outside schools budget, as demanded by Lib Dems
The agreement promises to «fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere».
Massachusetts's progressive school - finance system, the product of reforms made in 1993, begins by establishing a minimum per - pupil spending figure - the foundation budget - that accords low - income children a premium of about 42 percent over that allotted other children.
The premium is jointly funded by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and is to be used for increasing and improving physical education and sport for all pupils.
ASSESSMENT OF FUNDS How the PE and sport premium is used will be assessed by Ofsted, which will measure its impact on pupil outcomes, and how effectively governors hold school leaders to account for this.
According to a research poll of 1,361 teachers published by the Sutton Trust, 32 per cent of senior leaders in primary schools admitted that they are using their pupil premium funding in this way.
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.
A growing number of schools are using pupil premium funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts, according to polling published by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation.
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.
Despite numerous rumours leading up to the announcement, Osborne also reassured schools and parents by stating that free school meals and pupil premium will be maintained.
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).
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.
«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.»
«We are making funding fairer by consulting on proposals for a new national funding formula so that areas with the highest need attract the most funding and we are continuing the pupil premium — worth # 2.5 billion this year — giving schools significant extra funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.»
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».
Schools are increasingly using the pupil premium to plug funding gaps fuelled by real - terms spending cuts, new analysis by the Sutton Trust has revealed.
«In government, Liberal Democrats have shown we trust teachers by giving the profession control of our # 2.5 bn pupil premium; backing a new Royal College of Teaching; axing Labour's hated A * - C league table measure, and successfully fighting to implement independent recommendations on pay.
In other initiatives some headteachers have opted to fund tutoring for disadvantaged students using the pupil premium, which is paid by the government to schools for every child on free meals.
Alongside its demand for new accountability measures for schools, the report suggests reforms to pupil premium funding so it can «better target funding for disadvantage» by allocating more to pupils eligible for free school meals «throughout their schooling», and the establishment of a Northern Powerhouse Schools Improvement Board.
The pupil premium was introduced by the Coalition government in April 2011 to provide additional funding for disadvantaged pupils.
This will also include a new approach to specialist pupil premium reviews, led by national leaders of education.
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.»
It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.
Schools have had to use the pupil premium to plug the gaps caused by funding pressures elsewhere so this money simply gets subsumed into the rest of their budget.
«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»
This will be by way of a «pupil premium», but no details of how much extra will be available have been given.
We shouldn't judge disadvantaged pupils purely by the academic achievements of students in the best schools, but if used well, the premium is the way to lift barriers...
«Because disadvantaged young people are often held back by a lack of aspiration from their parents who have failed to engage with their educational progress, schools have used the pupil premium in some imaginative ways — such as literacy classes for parents — to increase parental engagement.»
Tom Goldman, the Department for Education's director of funding, told MPs on Tuesday that placing pupil premium into the national funding formula was the easiest way to achieve one single deprivation measure by which to allocate funding.
Pupil premium cash for looked - after children is overseen by local authorities, but schools choose what to do with the # 1,900 they get every year for each previously looked - after pPupil premium cash for looked - after children is overseen by local authorities, but schools choose what to do with the # 1,900 they get every year for each previously looked - after pupilpupil.
Agree — and if grammar schools go ahead make them 50 % pupil premium and 50 % selected by the primary schools.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: «The pupil premium has been one of the most significant changes in our education system for a long time and is already closing the attainment gap by helping up to two million disadvantaged children get the support, education and skills they need to get on in life - whether it's through literacy classes, catch - up lessons or one - to - one tuition.»
The research will be welcomed news by the Labour party after leader Jeremy Corbyn announced in September that he would introduce an «arts pupil premium» to pump # 160 million of extra funding into schools if his party wins the next general election.