Sentences with phrase «face increasing numbers of pupils»

LAs, for example, are under significant financial pressure, and face increasing numbers of pupils with high needs «at a time when they may lack the capacity to plan strategically for them».

The gap between official statistics and the perceptions of the profession seems vast; school leaders across the country report that they are struggling to fill vacancies with suitably qualified permanent staff, right at the time when they face increasing numbers of pupils, higher accountability standards and more demands on subject specialisms.

Not exact matches

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

The National Audit Office has found, however, that schools are facing budget cuts of # 3 billion by 2020 because funding was not keeping pace with an increased number of pupils and rising costs of national insurance and pension contributions.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

The government has committed to providing each pupil a place at a good school, but this key objective is becoming harder to achieve in the face of budget pressures and increasing numbers of children entering the education system.

Supply agencies have a major role to play in the development of a flexible workforce that can respond to the challenges that schools are facing, such as teacher shortages and increasing pupil numbers.

Grammar schools - state - funded schools that select pupils on the basis of ability - are facing increasing pressure to become more socially inclusive, amid government plans to increase the number of them.

While schools will get more money as pupil numbers increase and therefore could create economies of scale, they face a worrying financial position if their expenditure continues to exceed income.

Secondary phase SATs face significant difficulties in managing their deficits because of increasing pupil numbers and difficulties in recruiting teachers, as discussed in a previous NFER blog.