Sentences with phrase «increase the number of pupils from»

The Brilliant Club is an award - winning charity that exists to increase the number of pupils from under - represented backgrounds progressing to highly - selective universities.

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He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.

Additionally, a study from the National Literacy Trust on the effects of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per cent rise in the number of pupils who read daily and a 22 per cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.

Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

Statistics show that the number of primary school pupils suspended or given fixed term exclusions for assaulting an adult increased by 25 per cent from 9,290 in 2012 - 1013 to 11,660 in 2013 - 14.

The average number of entries overall per pupil has fallen since 2013, standing at 0.70 in 2016, which is lower than any other time in the period under review and comes after an increase between 2010 and 2013 from 0.75 to 0.80.

Only half of parents and carers had heard of the EBacc, compared to 58 per cent last year, despite a push from ministers to increase the number of pupils studying the core academic EBacc subjects.

There has been a nine per cent increase in the number of pupils removed from school for being verbally abusive to adults, up from 550 in 2014 - 15 to 600 last year.

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data reveals that in the past four years there has been an increase in the number of pupils with SEND who attend a specialist school, up from 5.6 per cent in 2012 to 8.5 per cent in 2016.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing the number of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.

Time, Time Measurement and Time Problems - Year 3 - 3 PowerPoint presentations and worksheets designed to teach pupils how to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12 - hour and 24 - hour clocks; estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year; compare durations of events.

The Schools Minister continued to explain that the new English Baccalaureate (EBacc) was introduced to combat this issue, with the number of pupils being entered for the qualification increasing from 23 per cent to 39 per cent over three years.

The additional teaching accommodation was needed at the time as the school caters for over 1,600 pupils, with 400 in the sixth form from the start of the 2011/12 academic year and plans are in place to increase pupil numbers to 2,000.

Taking into account the fact that the average faith school admits fewer pupils from poor backgrounds than the average non faith school, the EPI concluded that increasing the numbers of faith schools «would come at the price of increased social segregation».

LEARNING FROM OTHER SECTORS Professor John Howson, chair of the REC's Education Steering Group has argued that «the increase in pupil numbers and decline in trainee teacher numbers heralds a period when recruitment will become more of a challenge, especially in certain subjects and phases».

We wanted to address this and ensure that an increased number of pupils benefited from LOtC.»

Flexibility within menu cycles can help you take advantage of seasonal ingredients and special offers from suppliers, to have a creative kitchen and to reflect school activities and events on your menu to as part of your marketing to pupils to increase your lunch numbers.

His comments follow concerns from the Religious Education Council of England and Wales that a removal of short courses from the Department for Education (DfE) performance tables is «having a serious and negative impact on the number of pupils choosing to take religious studies at GCSE level, with an increasing number of schools having no pupils at all taking the subject».

Ms Gould also highlighted a 12 per cent increase in the number of pupils achieving an A * to C in maths — up from 55 to 67 per cent.

The number of requests for exam scripts to receive «special consideration» in marking increased this summer, mainly thanks to the new linear structure of GCSEs which forbids re-sits — but fewer requests from pupils who were ill or not able to sit an exam were approved.

Since 2013, the number of pupils aged up to 19 with a statement of SEND or EHCP has increased from 233,431 to 279,582.

Charter schools» base categorical block grant funding received growth for new pupils in the 2012 - 13 state budget; a total of $ 53.7 million to accommodate the increasing number of students in California's charter public schools and keep the per pupil funding level from decreasing.

A total of # 1.3 billion is being granted to local authorities for 2017 to 2018 while the # 300 million top - slice held back from the 2015 to 2017 allocation will be targeted at councils «experiencing significant and unexpected increases in pupil numbers».

There was a 41.3 per cent increase in the number of pupils using a computer reader for their exams in 2016 - 17, up from 8,110 to 11,460.

Among the options Kleban presented were increasing the number of students per class, which will bring in more per - pupil funding from the state, or cutting some vacancies and spreading those duties among other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for example.

A small, but growing, number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere — 6 % of teachers reported this as the main priority for their school's pupil premium spending, an increase from 2 % in 2015.

They will also seek to boost partnerships between selective schools and non-selective schools, at both primary and secondary level, and seek to increase the number of applications from disadvantaged pupils

Academic research from Simon Burgess, a professor of economics at Bristol University, recently showed that pupils with additional languages tend to make more academic progress than other groups and that good exam results in London «did appear to be accounted for» by the increased number of pupils with English as an additional language.

But Andrew Hall, from the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, says an increase in the number of pupils sitting the exams early is «limiting in some way» the students» potential.