Sentences with phrase «for brighter pupils»

They are popular with those who have concerns about regular GCSEs lacking in challenge for brighter pupils.

Schools that have already developed a proven programme of support for their brightest pupils should be encouraged to support other schools in their region where highly able pupils underperform.

Grammar schools are no better for the brightest pupils than good comprehensives, according to new research which casts doubt on the government's claim that selective education aids social mobility.

Not exact matches

Bright graduates will mentor potentially high - achieving pupils from poor backgrounds to apply for places at the UK's top universities, the government has announced.

«A key element of the Science on Stage concept is to give teachers an up - to - date «insider's view» of what is happening in big science, to tell them about new, highly diverse and interesting career opportunities for their pupils, and to create a European atmosphere where bright young people can meet and interact», says Colin Carlile, Director General of the Institut Laue - Langevin and current chairman of the EIROforum.

Their bright colourful Core Textbooks, one for each year group, are very pupil friendly, contain lots of graded exercises, and are capable of being used in both a group work arrangement, AND as a whole class teaching resource, thus allowing for Mastery teaching to take place.

It is wrong for academically - gifted pupils to be held back in a comprehensive system, or made to feel guilty just for being bright.

Teachers reported even bright pupils could not finish the test as they said it was a «demoralising» experience for some.

When I see professionals like Colin Hegarty, a teacher nominated for the international Varkey Foundation Award for his ground breaking approach to teaching maths; and Luke Sparkes, Principal at Dixons Trinity Academy in Bradford whose focus is on seeking out what pupils don't know rather than affirming what they do, I know that the teaching profession is fizzing with bright new ideas as well as passionate teachers and leaders who are committed to driving up educational outcomes.

Instead, she continued to seek a new sponsor for the university technical college after Bright Futures Educational Trust was forced to relinquish sponsorship as it could no longer afford to run the school, which had been open for three years and had just 65 pupils on roll, despite a capacity for 500, in October.

Secondary schools in areas where the brightest pupils are selected for grammar schools will be more likely to be classed as coasting under the government's newly revealed definitions.

They have argued that admission by ability is more likely to promote social mobility, providing an opportunity for bright, poor pupils who do not live in the catchment areas of good schools.

Bright teenagers from poor homes get half as much extra tuition as less able pupils from wealthier homes, a report for the Sutton Trust charity suggests.

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This, despite the fact that the state had doubled the expenditure per pupil for a period of time and all these schools were directly run by Supt. Paul Vallas who selected the «world class» school administrators, contracted to staff the schools with the «best and brightest» teachers (TFA), and controlled the curriculum and hours of instruction.

Rex Philips, Wales organiser for the teaching union NASUWT, said: «Whilst is right that the best and the brightest of our pupils and their teachers should be congratulated for their outstanding achievements at GCSE this year, we should not lose sight of the fact that pupils who achieve a D, E or G may well have excelled themselves.

The education green paper introduced by Justine Greening a fortnight ago outlined proposals for multi-academy trusts to move their brightest pupils into a single «centre of excellence» school within their trust, stating the action is already «permissible» under the current system.

The government has confirmed it has a grammar school get - out clause that allows academy trusts to filter their brightest pupils to another site, effectively creating selective schools and dodging the need for new laws to be passed.