Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged pupils»

All will receive a share of # 1 million to help them to continue to provide music education for disadvantaged pupils in their area.

The report looked at the difference between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils in a school's intake and that of its local neighbourhood to establish how socially selective it is.

The study found that while there can be gains for disadvantaged pupils in struggling primary schools that convert, most successful schools that are transformed into academies are unlikely to improve further.

The government is especially keen for sixth - form and further education colleges to sponsor schools, believing this could help encourage the most disadvantaged pupils to stay in education.

The report has recommendations in eight areas, each designed to support primary and secondary schools to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their classmates.

This is a mechanism for targeting schools with disadvantaged pupils with extra cash that started in 2011, with the amount rising steadily over the past three years.

He wants a higher education equivalent of the pupil premium that supports disadvantaged pupils in school and maintenance grants to be restored for poorer students.

He said the funding system should be designed to reward schools that succeeded in helping disadvantaged pupils.

The figures are important for the government which today confirmed it plans to reveal policies aimed at getting more disadvantaged pupils into selective schools.

We will fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere.

But when researchers took into account the high achieving nature of the very small minority of disadvantaged pupils who reach grammar schools, most of this difference disappeared.

The manager is responsible for narrowing the gaps for economically disadvantaged pupils.

The result was a big turnaround for schools, particularly among disadvantaged pupils.

The summit aims to consider how disadvantaged pupils should have fair access to the best schools and best teachers.

The proportion of disadvantaged pupils making expected progress between key stages 2 and 4 was 96 per cent, compared with 92 per cent for their peers.

Among the coalition's policies will be the «pupil premium» which aims to target extra funding at schools serving disadvantaged pupils.

They identified 26 chains out of 48, more than half, where disadvantaged pupils with lower grades at the end of primary schools made more progress than in state schools generally.

Schools with a high percentage of bright children and few disadvantaged pupils were more likely to be rated good or outstanding.

Test results for this target have been rising for disadvantaged pupils so the attainment gap has narrowed.

The government says it has allocated # 2.5 bn a year, by 2014, to be allocated to schools on the basis of how many disadvantaged pupils they take.

The report highlights how outcomes for disadvantaged pupils vary massively across academy chains.

Summer schools for disadvantaged pupils face closures as a result of having their funding withdrawn.

This research has found schools with a large intake of disadvantaged pupils do not stand any better of a chance than they did under the old five A * to C GCSE measure.

These could target disadvantaged pupils by providing more one - on - one tuition, but there is little concrete evidence they are doing so.

«There needs to be a better understanding of why disadvantaged pupils from different backgrounds can perform so differently,» she said.

And it highlighted differences in school funding, which could mean that «some schools receive about # 3,000 a year more than others per disadvantaged pupil».

He will also defend testing in schools, saying this offers disadvantaged pupils the prospect of a better life.

This includes 1.9 million more children in good and outstanding schools than in 2010, record numbers of young people in education or training and more disadvantaged pupils going to university.

This implies teachers only care about disadvantaged pupils while there are high stakes test.

The expanded wholly selective schools will have to set out plans to admit disadvantaged pupils, perhaps by lowering the entrance requirements.

However a further analysis found only a minority of schools where long - term disadvantaged pupils have value - added scores at or above the national average of 100.

However, if we put small numbers of disadvantaged pupils into these schools the kids will do better.

The government is directing more money at disadvantaged pupils through the new «pupil premium» - where money follows children from low - income homes.

This report will look at changes to admissions arrangements and whether numbers of disadvantaged pupils applying has increased by 2022.

They capture the achievement of disadvantaged pupils covered by the pupil premium.

These were given to the schools that had seemingly most boosted the attainment of their most disadvantaged pupils.

The launch of a new partnership between local business and national education charity Achievement for All could pave the way in closing the achievement gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers across the country.

It is part of a drive to spread evidence - based approaches to supporting disadvantaged pupils.

Higher qualified teachers preferred to teach in schools achieving low progress with affluent pupils, than ones achieving high progress with disadvantaged pupils.

The study examined the use of the pupil premium - extra money given to schools to help disadvantaged pupils.

A large proportion of the increased performance is among disadvantaged pupils.

«Simply allowing more disadvantaged pupils to attend grammar schools will not create the systematic improvement needed for a world - class education system,» he said.

The agreement promises to «fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere».

But progress is slow and the position of disadvantaged pupils in 2016 is almost the same as in 2013.

The measure proposed to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year to expand the programs, with first priority for the money going to schools serving disadvantaged pupils.

But in many more academies, disadvantaged pupils did worse than those in mainstream schools.

Schools should publish progress measures for disadvantaged pupils on their websites, a new report has claimed, after revealing stark differences between how schools are closing the gap.

This information must also include details of how the school spent the pupil premium funding in the last academic year, and how it made a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

Selective schools had the widest range of progress 8 scores for disadvantaged pupils at flagship schools in 2017, with a gap of 4.09 between the lowest and highest scores.

«We have been alerting the Minister to this practice for months, and the Minister has always insisted that the money should either be spent on disadvantaged pupils or taken back.