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For example, the report reveals that 43 per cent of schools leaders say they have been letting out their school building.

In 2015, the school was in the top one per cent of schools in the country for the rate of pupil progress.

Thirty - one per cent of school leaders said that the most common barrier to finding support was due to lack of local services and 28 per cent put it down to budget constraints.

65 per cent of schools said they consult with pupils about the provision of sport in their schools.

In this survey 75 per cent of schools reported that they run residential or touring sports tours.

Furthermore, 46 per cent of all schools feel unable to maintain their current spending on education technology in the future.

90 per cent of school cooks have said that the new standards were easier to implement than the older principles.

25 per cent of schools indicated that investment in pupil PCs and specifically tablets will be one of the main areas of spend, which is good news so far.

Of course the issue remains that 41 per cent of schools do not feel they have adequate bandwidth and therefore the benefits for them adopting the technology are limited.

While only 14 per cent of schools now have an extensive requirement for desktop computers in the current year, the requirement for laptop computers more than doubles to 32 per cent.

This was a response to the figure that at the time only 10 per cent of school children had access to outdoor learning.

95 per cent of schools stated that it is important to select their own supplier of resources, based on a trust in the level of customer service offered.

When considering ICT products, 25 per cent of all schools at least sometimes collaborate in procurement, up from 11 per cent in 2012.

Financial resources were highlighted as a potential barrier to tablet adoption — 90 per cent of the schools surveyed said funding and budget allocations restricted tablet use.

Nearly 70 per cent of schools last year stated this, while this year 89 per cent gave the same response.

Furthermore, the proportion of schools using a specialist school ski operator to organise their skiing trip has increased, with over 90 per cent of schools choosing to make their own travel arrangements.

Joint degrees suffer a similar fate, despite their potential for improving the social and environmental sensitivity of the Canadian engineering profession; 70 per cent of schools failed to provide any.

This could bring inspection time down from three days to one for the sixty per cent of schools currently ranked as good.

The research also finds that 36 per cent of schools teach social media etiquette and safety, compared with 43 per cent that teach coding.

This represents a significant increase on last year's prediction of tablets comprising 27 per cent of school hardware in 2015.

Teacher salaries are often 70, even 80 per cent of a school organisation's overall budget - that is a huge amount of money being allocated to human capital.

Support staff make up 50 per cent of the school workforce, and teaching assistants are a quarter of those.

He took over the school in 2001 when it was ranked in the bottom 10 per cent of schools in the country for performance.

Fifty - six per cent of school leaders say that it's hard to locate mental health services, research shows.

Until we then find that a relatively comparable 46 per cent of all schools feel they are unlikely or definitely not able to maintain their spending in ICT.

25 per cent of schools indicated that investment in pupil PCs and specifically tablets will be one of the main areas of spend.

Yet according to the government, less than 10 per cent of school children have access to outdoor learning.

Forty one per cent of schools are «less than satisfactory in this respect», and children's understanding of maths is «particularly weak in half of all schools».

General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level examinations (O Levels) had existed since the early 1950s, but were only available in grammar schools and private schools, and as such were only taken by the top 20 per cent of the school population by academic ability.

Worryingly, statistics from the STF's 2015 survey showed that 22 per cent of school trip organisers opt to make their own travel arrangements and bypass the quality, safety and financial security benefits of travelling with a badged provider.

Bousted said: «Despite the obvious need for greater expertise amongst education professionals, just nine per cent of school staff feel sufficiently trained to identify the signs of mental health issues in pupils.

By 2003, schools were expected to spend around # 65 million on dedicated ICT budgets, but one of the most prominent developments in classroom technology was the investment of around # 200 million in interactive whiteboards, which had reached 58.3 per cent of schools by 2004, and is now the most commonly used piece of AV classroom technology (BESA Historic ICT in UK State Schools, 2015).

In high - performing countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong, teachers are drawn from the top 30 per cent of school leavers.

The health gains were most visible in disadvantaged catchment areas — over a half of schools with more than a quarter of pupils on free school meals said their facilities had improved, compared to 39 per cent of schools with lower than average take up of free meals.

«The sample test results for Key Stage 2 science are based on five per cent of schools which makes spurious any comparisons with other test results from previous years.

Hertfordshire is now leading the way with its great schools programme; with nearly 90 per cent of schools rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, which is above the national average of 86 per cent.

And that's awkward, not only because those SATs results might well have determined which set pupils were put into (around 60 per cent of schools use SAT scores for setting), but also because it shows how precarious the progress measure for any one school really is.

This will consist of # 569 million (1.8 per cent of the school block budget) and for the first year of the new formula will be based on historic spend and given to local authorities to dish out.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, commented: «It is deeply concerning that 20 per cent of those schools responding to the data collection were not fully compliant with regulations.

He proposes that, in the next federal - state school funding agreement due to start in 2018, funding be indexed in line with teacher's wages, which make up about 80 per cent of school costs.

Official figures show the school, which joined the trust four years ago, had pupil progress scores in the bottom nine per cent of schools for reading and maths last year.

Just 16 per cent of schools under her remit are academies compared with 13 per cent over two years ago.

Students are given few opportunities to focus on pertinent subjects, with only 43 per cent of schools providing relevant specializations.

Whilst over 16,000 school trips are organised through STF Assured Members each year, all protected by the LOtC Quality Badge, unfortunately 22 per cent of schools still choose to self - organise, often for cost reasons — which can be a false economy, when you consider that the average cost of a school trip is around # 20,000.

Given that nearly 90 per cent of schools also contain asbestos, the DfE should also use this survey to establish the location and condition of all asbestos in our schools to prevent any exposure to this deadly material.

Whittaker's exclamations indicate further disturbances for the scheme, which in February was accused of «abusing its power» after it was revealed that 70 per cent of schools receiving phase two funding were in government - held constituencies.

Forty - four per cent of school respondents said «knowing what type of support is needed» is a barrier to providing mental health support for pupils, and 37 per cent said they don't feel confident in commissioning a counsellor or therapist.