Sentences with phrase «entering more pupils»

Over # 1 million has been saved by schools in exam entry fees last year as a result of entering more pupils on time.

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Schools that book trips to The Varsity Match for 20 or more pupils will be entered into a free prize draw to win one of four special coaching clinics at the stadium in - between the women's and men's Varsity Matches on Thursday 6 December 2018.
All schools that book trips of 20 pupils or more by Sunday 13 November will be entered into the prize draw.
«If it is the case that pupils from the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.
A further problem is that increasing taxes on high achievers yet more will put them way beyond the Laffer Curve prompting Ireland to enter the market for a start The next problem is that you assume a «Pupil Premium» is a popular idea.
As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.
The data also reveals that more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, SEN pupils and pupils on free school meals are being entered for EBacc subjects since last year — helping ensure pupils have the knowledge and skills they need for future success.
This year, an additional 23 schools throughout England have entered into the Mandarin Excellence Programme, meaning hundreds more pupils will soon have the opportunity to learn this advanced skill.
PUPIL ATTAINMENT Before the initial decline in 2013, pupils with high prior attainment were more likely to enter for at least one arts subject, in comparison to those with medium or low prior attainment.
According to Schools Week, Cath Jadhav, associate director of standards and comparability at Ofqual, said that more pupils in lower ability sets were likely to have been entered for the English Literature GCSE this year, so they are counted in Progress 8 measures.
Richer pupils were 3.8 times more likely to enter university in 2016 compared to their more disadvantaged peers, according to a new report from UCAS.
At that time, the country did not realize it was about to enter a deep recession followed by a prolonged, uneven recovery, and 50 % of the public was ready to spend more on schools even after being told current levels of per - pupil expenditure in the local school district.
«Before 2013, pupils with high prior attainment were more likely than those with medium or low prior attainment to enter at least one arts subject,» the report found.
One of the reasons for Barton's concern is that pupil numbers are expected to rise considerably over the next nine years leading to a demand for more teachers entering classrooms, not fewer.
More pupils are being entered into «traditional» subjects such as maths and science in response to the Ebacc, Ofqual boss Glenys Stacey has claimed.
In fact, a pupil attending a private prep school is ten times more likely to enter a grammar than a pupil on free school meals.
This is because pupils at English state schools enter, on average, nine GCSEs and equivalent qualifications, rising to more than 10 for more able pupils.
But it argues that if pupils are entered for exams at the expected time - at the end of a two - year course - they are more likely to do better.
Schools that enter large numbers of pupils into a fast - track ICT qualification could see Progress 8 scores drop if Ofqual or the DfE recalibrated grades to reflect more closely how pupils score in other GCSEs, a new analysis has claimed.
When the Progress 8 measure for schools was implemented in 2016, we saw an increase of more than 10 percentage points in the proportion of pupils entered for four of the EBacc subjects (English, maths, science, languages, computing science, history and geography).
He said most of the improvement is driven by disadvantaged pupils entering more of the qualifications that count under Attainment 8.
The Ofqual figures show that the number of entries from pupils entering GCSEs a year or more early has fallen from 842,000 last summer to 505,000 in summer 2014.
«We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom,» he said.
Gibb said: «We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom.
In December, her main concerns had evolved toward polishing up the routine of getting pupils to enter, settle down, and start working in a more disciplined and faster manner, anticipating and managing the troublemaking behaviors of certain pupils, and reflecting upon how one should act in difficult situations.
The report said the increase was «particularly marked» for pupils with low prior attainment (up from 1.3 to 1.9), adding: «This suggests some of the increase in the attainment 8 score is driven by schools» behaviour change as pupils enter more qualification that count towards the new measures.»
More pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, Special Educational Needs (SEN) pupils and pupils on free school meals are being entered for English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects compared to last year, ensuring pupils have the knowledge and skills they need for future success; and
There is also speculation that more pupils in Wales, where there are no school league tables, may be entered for exams they might not perform well in, in comparison to elsewhere.
The same applies to sunglasses: even the darkest pair of sunglasses you own is not remotely dark enough to protect your eyes and, ironically, wearing them will actually make eye damage worse — your pupils will dilate behind them, allowing more damaging light from the eclipse to enter your eye.
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