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However, while this is improving, it is still low; just 11 per cent of primary and nine per cent of secondary schools hold this opinion compared with five per cent of all schools last year.

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

Not exact matches

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

Last year, the Primary Industries Education Foundation (PIEF) asked primary school students where they thought a variety of farm products came from; 75 per cent of the surveyed Year Six students thought cotton socks came from animals, and 27 per cent thought yoghurt was a plant product.

In New York, schools serve 1.7 million lunches and 500,000 breakfasts each day — which puts them on the front line of combatting hunger and childhood obesity — and yet the state meal reimbursement rate has remained at six cents for the last 40 years.

Sixth form colleges and school sixth forms will see funding cut by close to 20 per cent, as shown last month by independent research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

The inquiry, published today, followed figures released last night by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which confirmed that 41,300 children were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sincSchools and Families, which confirmed that 41,300 children were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sincschools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent since 2004.

The last government deemed a secondary school to be failing if five good GCSE passes were achieved by less than 30 per cent of their pupils.

In a new report, the FSB is calling for schools in England to increase their engagement with small firms, as new research shows only nine per cent of small firms have taken on an apprentice in the last 12 months.

In the school sport survey last October, the number of 11 to 16 - year - olds getting two hours of exercise had gone down from 88 per cent.

New Jersey schools were also less restrained than New York's this year: Last month, Jersey districts were seeking average tax levy increases of of 4.8 per - cent — half again as high as the average in New York this week.

Many of the children said that, in the last month, they had been left out by classmates (41 per cent) and that they had been hit by other children at school (48 per cent).

According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.

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In December last year, Ofsted reported that the number of new teachers had dropped by 16 per cent over the last five years, with 8,000 fewer trainees in secondary schools alone.

While this is a reduction from the 57 per cent of primaries and 68 per cent of secondaries who held the same view last year, the majority of schools still have a positive perception.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

In fact, the low cost and mobility of tablets is resulting in schools forecasting that by 2016, 37 per cent of all computer hardware in schools would be tablet devices: a 13 per cent increase on last year's prediction (BESA Tablet and Connectivity, 2014).

Data showed that on the last day of Term 1, when the school held its cross country, attendance dipped below 80 per cent.

49 per cent of all schools surveyed by BESA last year (632 schools: 335 primary and 297 secondary) stated that aside from of funding constraints, sourcing high quality, appropriate training continues to be a very significant barrier for the adoption of the technology.

The county council has a successful track record in school planning, and last year 96 per cent of Hertfordshire applicants were offered a place at one of their four ranked primary, junior or middle schools, with 83 per cent gaining their first preference.

5.4 per cent of schools were in deficit for the last academic year (2014/15).

At Key Stage 3, 44 per cent of art and design teachers across all school sectors reported a decrease in time for the subject over the last five years (four per cent reporting an increase).

School Workforce Census figures published by the DfE reveal that the number of full - time equivalent entrants to teaching has decreased from 45,120 (10.4 per cent) in 2015, to 43,830 (10.1 per cent) last year.

As reported by Schools Week, the number of late entries fell from three per cent last year to 2.8 per cent this year across GCSE and AS / A-level entries, Ofqual's latest figures show.

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.

The number of secondary schools with at least one advertised vacancy or temporarily - filled post rose from 23 per cent in 2015, to 27 per cent last year.

In secondary schools the proportion of ethnic minority pupils has risen to 27.9 per cent, from 26.6 per cent last year.

The overall proportion of good or outstanding secondary schools remains unchanged from last year at 71 per cent.

According to a survey by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), 80 per cent of respondents have had to make their class sizes bigger over the last 12 months.

He continued: «Last year, the combined effect of the government's pay cap and discretionary pay in schools means that the average pay award for classroom teachers last year was 0.6 per cLast year, the combined effect of the government's pay cap and discretionary pay in schools means that the average pay award for classroom teachers last year was 0.6 per clast year was 0.6 per cent.

The Resource Our Schools initiative, which has already attracted support from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and numerous subject associations, comes following procurement research published by BESA that shows that primary schools are spending 3.7 per cent less on resources than lasSchools initiative, which has already attracted support from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and numerous subject associations, comes following procurement research published by BESA that shows that primary schools are spending 3.7 per cent less on resources than lasschools are spending 3.7 per cent less on resources than last year.

Almost a quarter (24 per cent) of teachers working in an outstanding school last experienced being inspected over five years ago.

Twenty - two per cent of education staff believes that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech while at school in the last academic year.

A recommendation by the School Teachers» Review Body (STRB) to increase the pay of teachers by one per cent was accepted by the Department of Education last summer.

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

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) information by the Press Association shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 per cent) witnessed a decline in the number of children given their first choice secondary school in comparison to the year before.

There has been a nine per cent increase in the number of pupils removed from school for being verbally abusive to adults, up from 550 in 2014 - 15 to 600 last year.

Government figures show the amount of GCSE candidates in state - funded schools who took EBacc subjects increased from 22 per cent in 2010, to nearly 40 per cent last year.

Schools permanently excluded 475 pupils aged seven and below last year, which is a rise of 19 per cent from the previous year.

58 per cent of children and young people on the autism spectrum we surveyed last year said that the single thing that would make school better for them is «if teachers understood autism».

The UK is not unique in its move towards tablets in education by any stretch; a recent report by the International Data Corporation found that most United States (US) schools are testing tablet devices, an increase of 103 per cent over the last year.

Last year, the subject recruited only 48 per cent of the number of teachers DfE calculated it would need to fill vacancies in school.

Latest figures show 83.5 per cent of pupils were offered their first choice of secondary school and 94.6 per cent of pupils were offered one of their top three secondary schools last year, which follows the creation of 735,000 new school places since 2010.

Not only this, but the number of infants excluded from school for any reason has increased by 20 per cent in the last year.

He said: «We've done well in terms of producing live, healthy babies over the last 60, 70 years, but, by the time children are leaving school, between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of them are in trouble emotionally or mentally, and suffer from things like obesity, eating disorders, anxiety and stress.»

Last September, the government said that new faith schools would no longer have to offer 50 per cent of their places to those of other religions or none.

The figures also highlighted that 87.8 per cent of parents got their first pick of primary schools, compared to 88.4 per cent last year.

The number of penalties issued to school and college staff for exam malpractice is up 48 per cent compared to last year, according to official figures from Ofqual.