Sentences with phrase «cent of the school population»

While Muslims are about five per cent of the British population, its youth comprises at least ten per cent of our school population.

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

Not exact matches

«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.»

The survey, which looked at the public's perception of the leaders» personalities, also found 36 per cent of the population believe Mr Miliband would have been bullied at school.

In Baptist High School, Iwo, for example, where the hijab crisis was planted and nurtured to death, well over 60 per cent of the student population is Muslim.

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.

Our school population has around 20 per cent Koori students and 10 per cent Sudanese students, which is not diverse compared to a lot of Melbourne schools, but diverse for our area.

Growing population As the RIBA report points out, a booming UK population has meant that 250,000 more school places are needed now than in 2000, 90 per cent of them at primary level.

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

Workforce data confirm ATSI peoples are significantly under - represented in schools — comprising 1.2 per cent of the teaching population in comparison to just over 5 per cent of the student cohort.

There are furniture guidelines to reassure schools that the chairs have been designed for 90 per cent of the user population and won't let you down structurally.

It cited the US as an example where 21 per cent of all students have an immigrant background, while those schools in disadvantaged areas have 40 per cent of its student population from immigrant backgrounds.

In response to the policy pamphlet, the Church of England's chief education officer Reverend Nigel Genders said: «The Church of England continues to be committed to the provision of high quality RE in schools, which is vital for a balanced understanding of the world today where more than 80 per cent of the population are people of faith.

The School District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school disSchool District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school disschool district.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

Additionally, pupils on free school meals made up just 19 per cent of GCSE entrants, even though they make up 27 per cent of the population nationally.

If we look at the overall adolescent population, only about 1 in 5 meet current physical activity guidelines and if we look at senior school students specifically only around six per cent of those meet current physical activity recommendations.

The findings reflect previous analysis by Schools Week, which two years ago found that only two of the 563 teaching schools open in 2015 were located in areas serving the 25 per cent of most deprived populSchools Week, which two years ago found that only two of the 563 teaching schools open in 2015 were located in areas serving the 25 per cent of most deprived populschools open in 2015 were located in areas serving the 25 per cent of most deprived populations.

Independently - schooled pupils made up 23 per cent of PISA «top performers» in science, despite making up only seven per cent of the population.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

This is the Philippines, where almost 40 per cent of the roughly 100 million population are of school - going age.

«The reality is that just because we stand here or sit here in law school and people tell us that only two per cent of the population make it here, doesn't mean that we've arrived.

In its latest pupil number projections, the Department for Education indicated that it expects there to be an increase in special school places of 13,000 over the period 2017 to 2026, reflecting an upward trend in the special schools population of 29 per cent since 2007.