Wi - fi access «According to last year's annual survey by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), 65 per cent of primary schools and 54 per cent of secondary schools don't have access to a good wi - fi connection.
Less than half of the state - funded primary schools in England currently have access to a school business management professional while over 90 per
cent of secondary schools do.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
The data showed that 3.5 per
cent of parents
did not get any
of their preferences for
secondary school, while 3.1 per
cent missed out on all their choices
of primary
school.
It also found that on average, primary
school pupils spend 53.7 per
cent of their time engaging with ICT in the classroom, as
do 55.5 per
cent of secondary school pupils.
Researchers spoke to more than 2,000
secondary school pupils aged 11 to 16 years old and found that more than a third (36 per
cent) were willing to
do «whatever it takes to look good» and that nearly two thirds (63 per
cent) said what other people think
of their looks is important to them.
Our most recent tablets and connectivity in
schools (June 2015) research
of 632
schools (335 primary and 297
secondary) suggests many have
done just this, with 71 per
cent of primary and 76 per
cent of secondary schools making use
of tablets in the classroom.
There was acknowledgement from
schools that they could be
doing a lot more to help parents with homework, particularly among
secondaries, 30per
cent of whom «never or rarely» provide assistance.
Alarming findings from the Youth Sport Trust (YST) suggest that 38 per
cent of English
secondary schools have cut timetabled Physical Education for 14 - 16 year - olds since 2012, while almost one in four (24 per
cent) have
done so in the last academic year.
The proportion
of FTE teachers that
do not have QTS varies by
school type: 3.1 per
cent of teachers in all nursery / primary
schools do not have QTS; compared with 5.9 per
cent in all
secondary schools.
Twenty - eight per
cent of London's
secondary schools have at least one vacancy or temporarily filled post (compared with 24 per
cent nationally) as
do 18 per
cent of its primary
schools (compared with eight per
cent nationally).
Where those unqualified teachers are working varies — 3.1 per
cent of teachers in all primary / nursery
schools do not have QTS, and at
secondary it is 5.9 per
cent.
In 10 per
cent of primary
schools and 8 per
cent of secondary schools, disadvantaged pupils are
doing better than the national average for all pupils.