Sentences with phrase «cent of schools said»

95 per cent of schools said that it makes a positive contribution to life skills (confidence, resilience, resourcefulness, teamwork, communication skills).

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

Encouragingly, our recent survey has shown that 81.3 per cent of schools said that they run the same amount or more trips compared to two years ago.

The encouraging news is that in the 2016 survey 72 per cent of schools said they have already taken steps to go totally cashless, with one in five of these schools already reporting they are totally cashless, in comparison to 67 per cent and one in six respectively in 2015.

It's little wonder that a new Department for Education (DfE) report finds that a staggering 95 per cent of schools said that the Premium has had a positive impact on the physical fitness of students, as well as improving the skills and behaviour of pupils.

«More than 96 per cent of primary schools reported the grant was having a positive impact on their pupil's physical fitness, healthy lifestyle, skills and behaviour, with 87 per cent of schools saying that the quality of PE teaching has increased since 2012/13.»

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.

Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the School of Marketing at Curtin Business School.More than two - thirds (77 per cent) of respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...

Speaking to The Times Higher Education Supplement, he said: «The move back to schools of 100 per cent one faith is dreadful.

Listen to him, speaking before a school in India: «I say to the seventy - five per cent of Hindus receiving instruction in this college that your lives also will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teaching of Jesus....

Just 20 per cent of respondents said they agreed that new state - funded state schools should be allowed to select up to 100 per cent of their pupils on the basis of faith while 79 per cent of Anglicans opposed the new selection proposals.

The research showed that while 84 per cent of secondary schools and 56 per cent of primary schools offered some form of counselling services for students, almost half said that a lack of local services and knowing what support is appropriate hindered their provision of support.

The National School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.&School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.&school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.»

It's the only anxiety disorder exclusive to childhood and the prevalence rate is about 4 per cent for school - aged children and 1.3 per cent of teens, Dr. Mendlowitz says.

In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says around one in six schools would see cuts in their funding of ten per cent or more as a result of the changes.

Other forms of support he said he gave to the constituency in the educational sector include the provision of 1,100 teachers» note 3 lesson notes books for schools, 10 packets of roofing sheets for schools, disbursement of Gh cents 10,000 as scholarship packages for students, construction of 4 classroom blocks in four communities (Bugri, Bugpiigu, Gagbiri Natinga and Kugur), roofing of a classroom block at Bulpielise and rehabilitation of a kindergarten block at Bugri Natinga.

Caveating his concerns, the man of God said his comments should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement of corruption or wrongdoing, but rather a warning about the destruction of the private sector which has the potential of providing jobs for over 95 per cent of employable graduates and secondary school leavers, since, according to him, the public and civil service has room for just about five per cent of all employable Ghanaians.

Noting that the attacks by armed herdsmen predated the current administration, the governor said the recent attacks had displaced 170,000 people with children of school age constituting 60 per cent.

«Those behind the rumour that a single company made N25 billion from charging one per cent of TSA funds that passed through the company's software, may need to return to elementary school to get some lessons in arithmetic,» he said in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Segun Adeyemi, in Abuja, Nigeria's capital.

About 37 per cent of respondents aged 16 to 24 said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic school, compared to 25 per cent of 45 to 54 - year - olds and 19 per cent of the over 55s.

He said land for the school was available, and that the citizens would provide communal labour for the project, whilst self - help contributions between GH cents 20.00 and GH cents 50.00 would be made by adults and non-residents of the town respectively.

General News of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Former President John Dramani Mahama The Ministry of Education has said former President John Mahama got it all wrong when he said the Akufo - Addo government has paid only 30 per cent of the funds meant for the first - year implementation of the Free Senior High School programme.

Mr Brown said every school must ensure 30 per cent of pupils obtain five or more good GCSEs, including qualifications in maths and science, or risk intervention.

Setting the records straight, it said the government, through the Ministry of Education, made 79.5 per cent central payments and that only 20.5 per cent was paid directly to the schools.

The Department of Education said 25 free schools are located in the most deprived 25 per cent of communities in the country, while the other 33 are in area where there is a need for more school places.

The headmaster of La Presbyterian School, Samuel Salamat, who notably said first - year students had to pay GH cents 80 for desks or risk standing in class during teaching, has also been interdicted by the Ghana Education Service.

UQ School of Public Health researcher Dr Mark Jones said women over 75 faced a 33 per cent higher chance of developing diabetes if they were taking statins.

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).

Once a rarity — representing between 3 and 4 per cent — homes sold through bidding wars tripled their market share during the real estate boom between 1995 and 2005, says the paper by two professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Globally, approximately 30 per cent of men have been circumcised, making it probably the world's most common surgical procedure, says epidemiologist Helen Weiss of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

«It is estimated that at least ten per cent of blindness from glaucoma is directly caused by poor patient adherence to their prescribed medications,» says Dr Wong, an Adjunct Associate Professor with NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering.

«Private and public spending for medications is 75 per cent more per person in Quebec compared to countries with universal pharmacare,» said Marc - André Gagnon, a professor at the school of public policy and administration at Carleton University.

Nearly one quarter (24 per cent) of YLT respondents said their families had difficulties in affording their school uniform, whilst holidays organised by schools were difficult to afford by nearly four in ten (39 per cent) families of YLT respondents.

He says that in these areas the combined grade inflation of more than one school can increase house prices by three per cent, or # 7,000.

Dr Rebecca Ghosh, co-author of the study from the School of Public Health at Imperial, said «Putting this in context, an individual who lived in a higher polluted area in 1971 had a 14 per cent higher risk of dying in 2002 to 2009 than someone who had lived in a lower polluted area.

Professor Sherwin, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the advantageous mutation then spread rapidly through the population, with the proportion of birds carrying Haplotype H increasing from 17 per cent to 47 per cent during the five years of the study.

«At least 40 per cent of patients who suffer from severe forms of chronic pain also develop depression at some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Lead author and UQ PhD student in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences James Allan said the study revealed that only 1.8 per cent of the world's wilderness is protected in these sites.

Assistant Professor Arindam Basu from NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering said the research team have tested the chip on data recorded from animal models, which showed that it could decode the brain's signal to the hand and fingers with 95 per cent accuracy.

The report found that 71 per cent of all 16 - 18 year old boys and girls have heard terms such as «slut» or «slag used towards girls at school on a regular basis, with 29 per cent of 16 - 18 year of girls saying that had experienced unwanted sexual touching at school.

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.

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

Only 25 per cent of Australian parents said sex education was best learnt at school, but the figure increased to 62 per cent for Indian and other Asian parents.

According to research published by children's mental health charity Place2B, in partnership with union NAHT, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), 34 per cent of counsellors and psychotherapists who work with children and young people said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.

In the ASG survey, 84 per cent of parents said they felt their child's school values their involvement in their child's learning and 83 per cent attend parent - teacher interviews and consultations.

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.

Across secondary schools in England, the research shows that 78 per cent of secondary school teachers surveyed by the National Foundation for Education Research say their school offers volunteering programmes to build their pupils» life skills, but just eight per cent of pupils aged 11 - 16 in England and Wales surveyed by Ipsos MORI say they take part in these sorts of extra-curricular activities.

While back in the academic year 2014/15, 55 per cent of primary schools and 38 per cent of secondary schools said this would be a focus in budgets, this year we are seeing seven per cent of primary schools reducing their spending.

Similarly, the counsellors and psychotherapists currently working in schools said that common difficulties faced were «schools» understanding of counselling and psychotherapy for children» (57 per cent), followed by «expectations not being clear» (30 per cent).