Sentences with phrase «funding pressures»

But at a time of funding pressure and curriculum changes, the future of arts education in schools is uncertain.

These statistics reflect the fact that sixth forms and colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to run courses where there are relatively small numbers of students because of severe funding pressures.

As funding pressures continue to grow many leaders will be embarking on strategic decisions that they will not have faced before.

With budgetary and government funding pressures, human resources and labour relations matters — such as collective bargaining — grow in their complexity.

The governor «strike» is the latest action by schools to raise the profile of funding pressures.

Hobby, the general secretary of the NAHT, warned that the government was not taking into account the impact of funding pressures on certain types of school.

Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Education Policy Institute report School funding pressures in England...

Increasingly school business managers are also responding to funding pressures by exploring new and innovative approaches to income generation.

Late in 2006 the «Institute for Public Policy Research», a grandly - titled and extravagantly - funded pressure group in the UK, first proposed that the international Left should from then on declare that the science of «global warming» was settled.

Last month, Slater set out the various ways his department planned to help schools with funding pressures during a committee hearing.

These recent pressures have followed large write - downs by many global banks of their CDO exposures, along with year - end funding pressures.

Balances rose again in mid November as funding pressures re-emerged.

Core banking institutions that sponsored off - balance sheet entities very quickly found funding pressures transferred back to them.

Alexander suggested that the MoD's unique funding pressure had already been recognised in the spending review, because it had only been asked to plan for cuts of 10 % at best, and 20 % at worst — far less than many other departments.

A five - year, $ 500,000 grant, announced on September 3, will help ease funding pressure on the greenhouse - gas monitoring effort run by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

It has to focus on the critical issues of a teacher recruitment crisis and severe funding pressures instead of pursuing a proposal which is a dangerous distraction.»

«Councils continue to face significant funding pressures, amid further cuts to funding by central government.

Schools have had to use the pupil premium to plug the gaps caused by funding pressures elsewhere so this money simply gets subsumed into the rest of their budget.

New Funding Pressures Next month the state Supreme Judicial Court will review the findings of a Superior Court judge who ruled in May that state funding for education is inadequate in poor districts despite the billions of dollar spent since 1993 on bringing struggling school districts up to a reasonable foundation budget.

Despite widespread concern over funding pressures, there was no extra money earmarked for school revenue budgets in the Budget last week.

A snapshot survey of 4,000 governors by the BBC sheds light on the existing funding pressure in England's schools.

But he added: «As our analysis shows, however, the government may receive little credit from schools for these reforms - as even the schools benefiting from the new formula have their gains completely wiped out by other funding pressures.»

The DfE recognises that «smaller, more remote schools face different funding pressures» a spokesperson said.

But Mr Hinds faced questions about funding pressures - with the union's general secretary Paul Whiteman saying that «rhetoric can not hide the real picture of a system in financial crisis».

Funding pressures made it «questionable whether operating as a single school represents a wise long - term policy».

There are undoubtedly funding pressures, inside the police and an understaffed Crown Prosecution Service — there are errors creeping in, and I fervently hope it will be fixed.»

Cost - shifting for payment of injured worker benefits from the employer funded WSIB to the public purse, with increased funding pressure on ODSP

Colleges and universities continue to embrace P3s to replace outdated on - campus student housing as funding pressures persist at both public and private schools, according to Churchey.

He said: «It is disappointing that the Autumn Statement failed to address the severe funding pressures in schools and colleges.

On Tuesday, Breitbart London reported that Soros's progressive grantmaking Open Society Foundations is closing its Budapest office and will relocate to Germany in response to the government's «repressive» crackdown on foreign - funded pressure groups.

The education secretary has recognised the extent of funding pressures in England's schools after hearing warnings of a «financial crisis».

Heads are responding to funding pressures by cutting back on their use of teaching assistants or, in the most extreme cases, teachers, the research found.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We have repeatedly warned that schools have had to increase class sizes because of funding pressures and here is yet more evidence that this is the case.

We work closely with our clients, and their actuaries and consultants, to understand their funding pressures and liability constraints to develop customized liability - driven solutions.

The way we provide health services in the UK — tax funded and free at the point of use — is not the source of the funding pressures.

Many scientists despise the funding pressures that force us to jump through the paper - writing hoop.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «Looking at the scale of the funding pressures on schools, this is a drop in the ocean.

Nearly half (47 per cent) of the National Union of Teachers» (NUT's) school representatives have reported cuts to teaching posts as a result of funding pressures, according to a survey.

According to a research carried out by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), funding pressures are affecting the quality of education and parents are being asked to step in.

Despite these funding pressures, the department is not doing enough to identify academy trusts that are at risk of getting into financial difficulty, the report states.

A combination of funding pressures, a push by Superintendent John Deasy to find innovative ways raise academic achievement and a desire by local school sites to gain more control has led to a big jump this year in schools adopting new «autonomy» models.

Last week, in an address to head teachers, Mr Hinds acknowledged the funding pressure on schools, but did not offer any short - term prospect of extra funds.

Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, warned of the impact of funding pressures.

«The majority of the funding pressures are government imposed - teacher pensions and National Insurance.

Funding pressures are already biting in schools in England, affecting the quality of children's education, and parents are being asked to make up the shortfall according to a joint survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and National Union of Teachers (NUT).

«These outcomes are particularly impressive given that there is a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, and severe funding pressures.

A letter from every head teacher in West Sussex circulated to 100,000 parents in October said there were risks of shorter school weeks and fewer teachers because of funding pressures.

Funding pressures will force more schools to reduce individual support for pupils and staff numbers, school business leaders have warned.