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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.

A survey conducted by the union found that 64 per cent of schools do not have access to an on site councillor, with three quarters saying that a lack of funding was a key barrier.

Not exact matches

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

Nearly 40 per cent of indigenous Canadians do not graduate from high school, and the figure is nearly 60 per cent for First Nations people on reserves, rates that far exceed the Canadian average.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

In his recent budget speech, the Finance Minister pointed out that 40 per cent of our villages do not have proper roads, that 1.8 lakh villages do not have primary schools, that 4.5 lakh villages have drinking water and sanitation problems, that there is a shortage of 140 lakh rural dwellings.

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

«If you can raise the meter for ten per cent of children in a school, you can do it for the other 90 per cent as well.»

While 81 per cent of voters do not think it matters if Mr Cameron smoked cannabis at school or university and 85 per cent think he should not have to answer «detailed questions about whether he tried drugs in his youth» the picture changes when more serious drugs are involved.

The research, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), shows that 23 per cent of employers find it difficult to recruit school leavers to engineering, IT or technical roles as they do not meet reasonable skill expectations.

However 4 per cent of children did not agree at all that they felt safe at home, 4 per cent did not agree that they felt safe at school, and 9 per cent did not agree at all that they felt safe when out and about in their neighbourhood.

Nearly half (48 per cent) of gay men who didn't play team sports were discouraged by homophobic experiences in school PE class.

In India today, 4 per cent of children never start school, 58 per cent don't complete primary school, and 90 per cent fail to finish high school.

Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree that they would like their child's school to do more in teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent for Indian and other Asian parents.»

The ASCL survey found that despite Ofsted saying inspections do not require schools to predicts attainment of their pupils or progress score, 62 per cent of respondents stated that they were asked to predict pupil attainment.

«Sixty nine per cent of all parents believe schools should do more to teach their child about social skills.

Better yet, amongst those schools doing less than the recommended level of two hours of PE per week, the curriculum time devoted to the subject has increased by over 40 per cent since the Premium was introduced.

12 per cent of primary schools are moving away from investing in English resources and 13 per cent are doing the same with science.

Forty - two per cent of staff in schools in areas of high deprivation revealed that they did not offer enough work experience placements, in comparison to the 58 per cent that stated they did.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

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.

Poor Wi - Fi provision is cited as an issue affecting 65 per cent of primary schools and 54 per cent of secondary schools, and a significant number (42 per cent of schools in the primary sector and 31 per cent of secondary schools) said their broadband provision did not meet requirements.

In the poll of 935 heads, deputies and assistant heads, 12 per cent of those surveyed said that their school would be continuing to use the levels system even though it does not match the new national curriculum.

For example, 61 per cent of secondary schools and 15 per cent of primary schools are now academies or free schools and so do not have to teach the national curriculum.

Other 2015 State of Our Schools Survey findings included: - 79 per cent of principals surveyed said they did not have enough funding for the needs of children with disability at their school.

And only eight per cent of school leaders said that they did not foresee a year where they would have an untenable deficit.

Alex Shapland - Howes, Managing Director of Future First, said, «More than 39 per cent of state school students don't know anyone in a job they'd like to do.

The survey discovered 75 per cent of young people enjoy PE lessons in school and 64 per cent stated they feel better about themselves after doing sport.

Over 90 per cent of primary school Ofsted reports do not mention science, a recent study has suggested.

Forty per cent of authorities responding to an NAO survey do not believe they have sufficient resources to provide effective support to schools and almost half of those authorities are planning to reduce the amount of staff time spent on support.

An incredible 84 per cent of open free schools have already formalised partnerships with their neighbouring schools or plan to do so.

«For potential teachers the question is: would you be willing to teach in a school where 30 per cent of the age range didn't attend?

Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.

Tablets were also found to greatly improve independent learning, with 100 per cent of pupils reporting that their tablets helped them to do research for school work, and 88 per cent reporting that tablets enabled them to work at their own pace and not worry if others are working faster or slower than them in lessons.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

Forty - five per cent of respondents said their school does not have a policy in place to deal with parental contact out - of - hours, meaning that many are expected to respond to emails and texts from parents during evenings and weekends.

More recently, in our YouGov TeacherTrack survey, a quarter of senior school leaders (27 per cent) said they don't expect to be working in education beyond the next one to two years.

Unison's survey found that 71 per cent of respondents are responsible for ensuring people visiting their school are safe to do so, with 41 per cent responsible for organising security checks to make certain new staff have no previous criminal convictions.

What some schools do is carry out an inspection of 20 per cent of the system every year to spread the cost.

73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

New research by online tutor service, Tutor Hunt, today revealed that 88 per cent of primary and secondary students surveyed felt there is pressure on them to perform to a certain level in exams, yet almost half (42 per cent) revealed that despite this, their school does not, or is unable to, offer any additional support.

According to research carried out by Barracuda, a company which provides security and storage solutions to schools, 43 per cent of those responsible for technology in schools do not feel equipped to safeguard pupils from radicalisation.

A separate survey of 1,003 parents across Britain also showed that 92 per cent of respondents think schools have a duty to support the wellbeing and mental health of students, while more than half said they want more information about what their child's school is doing to promote this.

The highest out - of - school rates are in Eritrea and Liberia, where 66 per cent and 59 per cent of children, respectively, do not go to primary school.

Less than five per cent of respondents had been told that their school did not contain asbestos; therefore the majority of respondents either knew that asbestos was present in their school, or had not been told either way.

The research is based on responses from 1,114 school leaders across England and Wales and shows that 93 per cent of participants believe that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago.

When asked to describe when they read a book of their choice independently at school (in class, in free time, or as a school), 30 per cent of six - to eight - year - olds said «I don't do this at all» — and that figure increased to 61 per cent among 15 - to 17 - year - olds.

Of 1,696 secondary school pupils surveyed, 81 per cent said that social media sites needed to do more to protect young users from inappropriate or harmful content.

In fact, as much as 80 per cent of the work can be done in a factory, which is particularly useful for schools where months of disruption would be a big problem.