Sentences with phrase «from poorer backgrounds»

It said too many pupils were being failed, with children from poor backgrounds doing particularly badly.

In particular they have failed huge amounts of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

But the business secretary will also recommend protection from tuition fee rises for students from poorer backgrounds.

Whether a student comes from a poorer background or a higher socioeconomic area is a factor in student achievement.

Ironically, the study was originally carried out to identify barriers preventing many people from poorer backgrounds from succeeding in certain careers.

But there is a serious problem with this argument: it is children from poorer backgrounds who are most likely to be dropped by the selection process.

Truly solving educational inequality means removing barriers to children from poorer backgrounds getting access to the best teaching.

But I was the only kid of color in that class, and the only kid from a poor background.

However, the situation already exists and many from poor backgrounds need to stay at home.

The report said children from poorer backgrounds need improved support during entrance tests and during the appeals process.

They will want to be seen as providing a ladder for clever youngsters from poorer backgrounds.

In most cases they are foreign women or women from poorer backgrounds, who have usually been subjected to serious abuse before entering the industry.

We both want to give children from the poorest backgrounds increased funding, so there are greater incentives for the best schools to take them on.

He said he wanted spending on pupils from poor backgrounds equal to that in private schools and he would also cut taxes for low - income families if he came to power.

However, it is clear that young children from poorer backgrounds often do not get the support to which they are entitled.

When white boys from poor backgrounds begin to achieve in line with others we will begin to make some progress on social mobility.

So is the achievement gap between students who come from poor backgrounds and their more affluent peers.

She said there were already small signs of improvement for pupils from the poorest backgrounds.

This is especially true of students from poorer backgrounds, who are less likely to have family or friends with the insight and expertise to offer advice.

It suggests that people from poorer backgrounds are not «choosing» better schools for their children.

Critics have said one reason for this is the necessity for children from poorer backgrounds to delay their university education because of the need to save for tuition fees.

The report argues that an increase in the cap to # 10,000 would deter thousands of students from poorer backgrounds from attending university - with potentially drastic implications for Britain's competitiveness in the labour market.

A series of recommendations have been announced in a bid to get more children from poorer backgrounds in to Kent grammar schools.

In opposition, Mr Gove had spoken of the need for reform, saying: «The situation that we have at the moment is flawed and it's a situation which leads students, particularly in weaker schools and particularly from poorer backgrounds, to be led into making choices which are not good for them.»

A Labour MP has defended his call to support artists from poorer backgrounds after singer James Blunt accused him of teaching «the politics of envy».

«There is a marked difference in the proportion of pupils from poorer backgrounds attending the top 500 comprehensives compared to the national average when based on the 5A * - C English and maths measure, with FSM rates just over half of the national average in comprehensive schools,» the report says.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said the authority will look at ways of getting more children from poorer backgrounds into the selective schools.

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

Trouble was coming from a poorer background splurging was not in my genes.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

By mischaracterising the government proposals, and advancing an image of insurmountable debts, they risk scaring applicants from poorer background away from university.

Millions of the poorest workers lifted out of paying income tax Children no longer locked up in immigration detention centres Thousands of schools better able to support children from the poorest backgrounds Millions of pupils with a free school meal to help them through the day And same sex couples, finally getting the freedom to marry the person they love And still more important than any of these victories for ordinary people was our willingness to enter into coalition at all.

Actor Will Mellor tells BBC Breakfast he is «proud» of his working - class roots, amid warnings that young actors from poorer backgrounds are being «priced out» of the profession.

A Labour MP defends his call to support artists from poorer backgrounds as singer James Blunt accuses him of teaching «the politics of envy».

10.49 am: Labour's Ann Cryer asks Brown what he can to do ensure that candidates from a poor background get into parliament.

Financial support for 10,000 internships in industry and professions for undergraduates from poor backgrounds.

Scottish Labour would spend # 1,000 a head on schoolchildren from poor backgrounds, guarantee state grants for college students, replace council tax with a more progressive property tax and ban fracking.

The outcome of this programme was published in a letter to Ian Comfort, chief executive officer of AET, which warned that the children from poor backgrounds under achieve in the trust.

The IFS claims that spending in England has become increasingly targeted at schools with pupils from poorer backgrounds over the last 20 years.

On the other hand, they can lead to a dangerous fragmentation that will, I fear, further disadvantage learners from poorer backgrounds.

GlamSci aims to support the advancement of education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects among young people, particularly disadvantaged young women and men from poorer backgrounds, who would not ordinarily engage in these subjects.

Our ethnographic studies showed that many children from poor backgrounds want to do their homework but simply can not.

Her programme has led to a 300 % increase in applications from students from poorer backgrounds through the universities Scholars scheme.

Leading academic Prof Sir Deian Hopkin said the numbers from poorer backgrounds getting to university were still disappointing despite efforts.