Not exact matches
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.
In 2004, following concerns
of a
lack of NHS dentist services, the government pledged to increase the number
of dental
students by 25 per
cent.
This
lack of understanding is clearly having an impact in schools, with surveys indicating that 63 per
cent of children on the autism spectrum have faced bullying, often due to fellow
students misunderstanding their behaviour.
Only 27 per
cent of Australian
students attended schools with a
lack of sufficiently powerful computers (although that figure increased to 51 per
cent in the Northern Territory), compared with 55 per
cent of students at schools for all ICILS countries and 85 per
cent of Turkish
students» schools.