Sentences with phrase «education secretary wants»

The Education Secretary wants private schools to earn their right be considered a charity.

The education secretary wants higher apprenticeships to be seen as equivalent to university degrees, and envisages them working as a route into teaching, even for those who have never set foot in a higher education institution.

Fox News: Bobby Jindal: Trump's pick for Education Secretary wants everyone to get a great education.

The paper says it is understood the education secretary wants a public statement within weeks outlining the change in direction so that schools know the funding they are to receive before they break up for the summer holidays.

The education secretary wants teachers» pay rises to be capped at an average of 1 per cent next year, despite experts previously warning the government of the need for a «significantly higher rise».

Approximately 300 clubs currently exist across the country and the education secretary wants all pupils to have the opportunity to learn about and get involved in coding as the importance of digital skills continues to grow.

The shadow education secretary wants to reverse the cancellation of plans to extend free meals to a further 500,000 pupils.

The education secretary wants new grammar schools to help those families who are not rich but do receive benefits.

The education secretary wants to scrap GCSEs, bring back O - levels and force less talented pupils to sit simpler CSE exams, in the biggest shake - up of British education for 30 years.

Baroness Warsi has said that she backed Michael Gove's complaints about the number of Old Etonians in David Cameron's inner circle because she believes the Education Secretary wants a «world class state system».

There are also hints at a difference in emphasis within Conservative ranks - with the education secretary wanting to expand the current grammars before opening any new schools.

The document, written by Department for Education permanent secretary Jonathan Slater, said that in order to help pass the laws the education secretary wanted to work with existing grammar schools to «show how they can be expanded and reformed in ways that avoid disadvantaging pupils».

Not exact matches

On tuition fees, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «If they want a debate on fees they could start by allowing one in the Commons on their latest fee hike, along with a vote.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants President Trump to clean up his language.

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At a press event, Education Secretary Are Duncan said, «In terms of what's morally right there, the moral compass, whatever we can do to have fewer young women and young men having to go through these types of horrific incidents, we want to do that»...

I shared blog posts that: offered a plaintive farewell to Michelle Obama, a champion of child nutrition; expressed my deep fears about the fate of hungry kids under President Trump; told you how the current House Freedom Caucus wants to gut school food; introduced you to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue; explained that Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, isn't ending the school lunch program (rumors to the contrary); and analyzed some recent rollbacks to the Obama school meal nutrition standards.

«I was incredulous when David Laws and Danny Alexander made it clear that they wanted substantial cuts this year,» the shadow education secretary, Ed Balls, told me.

As education secretary, David Blunkett said he wanted to «bottle their magic».

The shadow education secretary said private educators should be sharing their expertise to help state school pupils get into top universities, and should set up joint school programmes such as combined extra-curricular activities, if they wanted to keep receiving government subsidies in future.

The debate was a result of education secretary Michael Gove's announcement that he wanted to make «our island story» a fundamental part of the national curriculum.

Commenting on Nick Clegg's announcement of summer «catch - up» schools in his speech to the Liberal Democrats Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the board.

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

We need real progress from the education secretary — I hope he will want to be remembered for helping stop the cycle of abuse

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The Government did acknowledge this initially, insisting that it was a necessary price to pay for achieving the desired goal in primary schools:» Either they want us to ring fence ear - marked money and say «you can only spend it on class size» or they want the freedom to spend it in the school on raising standards», then Education Secretary David Blunkett argued in April 2000.

While not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able students.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also wants 200 new book clubs set up in schools across the country to encourage more kids to develop a love of reading.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

Hill, a former political secretary to prime minister John Major, was said to have tried to resign as a junior education minister in last September's reshuffle but when Cameron apparently failed to notice Hill wanted to leave his post.

Labour is behind parents who want to set up schools and would «keep the good free schools», the new shadow education secretary insists.

The new shadow education secretary has said Labour is «on the side» of parents who want to set up schools and would not shut most existing free schools.

On the same day that the Shadow Education Secretary will say that he wants to move away from «the narrow, «exam factory» vision of recent years a unique alliance of teachers, students, parents, local government representatives, governors, international experts and businesses has come together to produce a vision of what is being called Big Education.

For what it's worth, I don't think the Education Secretary really wants to be party leader and Prime Minister (though you never know), and he has certainly not been campaigning to date for the posts, in the manner of Boris Johnson, or crafting a support structure for the future, like George Osborne.

Clegg also accuses Gove — who was education secretary for the majority of the coalition government — of putting dogma ahead of the interests of pupils when he axed the Connexions careers advice service but refused to give schools instructions on how to compensate for it because he did not want to compromise their autonomy.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos» budget proposal: «Everything we believe in, she wants to cut.»

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, pictured, wants children in primary and secondary schools to have internet safety lessons to protect against pornography, cyber-bullying and radicalisation by extremists

I like being a front line politician and there's no reason why as Deputy Leader I can't stay as Secretary of State for Education, provided the Prime Minister decides that what he or she would want me to do.

The secretary of education wants to draw support for science education from some unusual quarters.

Hinds said: «As Education secretary, I want all children to get a truly world - class education that not only inspires them to make the most of their lives but also gives them the opportunity to fulfil their ambitions, no matter where tEducation secretary, I want all children to get a truly world - class education that not only inspires them to make the most of their lives but also gives them the opportunity to fulfil their ambitions, no matter where teducation that not only inspires them to make the most of their lives but also gives them the opportunity to fulfil their ambitions, no matter where they live.

Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».

In her speech at Bett this year, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «I want our next generation to have the skills to compete in the global jobs market.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has reaffirmed her position on wanting to see more people at the end of their careers consider a move into teaching, as their experience is valuable to the classroom.

Secretary da Silva called this method of teaching «teacher - present high school with technological mediation,» and he wanted to know: Would the IDB be willing to make an investment that would help the program transform from an experimental pilot into a radically new, statewide model for education?

A teacher who wants to learn more about the Common Core can watch a video featuring Professors Dan Koretz, Heather Hill, and Paul Reville that delves into the issue of assessments from the perspectives of an expert in educational measurement, an expert in teacher quality, and the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, respectively.

The Department should not bypass the state's constitutionally empowered education authority, override decades of precedent, and brush aside the intent of ESEA's accountability framework because a state didn't do what the Secretary wanted.

I want to congratulate Ben Carson on his confirmation as my Education Secretary.

Speaking at the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) conference in Cardiff's City Hall, the education secretary said: «Teachers and headteachers need to be able to concentrate on the roles that they are best equipped to perform, roles that they trained for, roles that made them want to become teachers in the first place.

If Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came to speak with you at your school ~ what would you want to discuss with him?

Theresa May wants to remove the ban on new selective institutions, and Justine Greening, the education secretary, announced at the weekend that she will build a system that gives «every child» a chance to attend a grammar school.