Sentences with phrase «increased the number of pupils in»

Throughout the 1970s, there was considerable pressure to merge the systems - particularly since the raising of the age of compulsory education to 16 considerably increased the number of pupils in a position to obtain qualifications.

That change alone is estimated to increase the number of pupils in the program by 50 next year, and increase voucher payments by $ 621,400.

That said, FullFact found the increased number of pupils in good or better schools, although correct, was partly due to changes in inspection practices.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set targets to increase the number of pupils in secondary school in England taking science subjects.

Not exact matches

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

Commenting on the data released today by the Department for Education on permanent and fixed - period exclusions of pupils during 2013 - 14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The increase in the number of pupils suspended due to assaulting adults in schools is extremely worrying.

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 thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

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.

As the number of pupils increases, so will the amount of money in our schools.

But when they were given the real numbers, only 42.9 percent of respondents supported raising per - pupil spending, and only 36.7 percent supported an increase in teacher salaries.

John Taylor High School has been an Ofsted rated «outstanding» school for many years, so when a number of housing developments began appearing nearby, they knew they could expect an increase in pupil numbers.

As the number of pupils in schools increases, it is important to provide sufficient facilities to offer opportunities for outdoor learning and play.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

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.

With an increasing number of pupils, and the demand for new teachers increasing, there are few signs that the problem will get any better in the short to medium term.

Exam regulator Ofqual has said that there has been an increase in the number of pupils choosing to take «traditional» subjects, such at maths, science and English, at GCSE and A level.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

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.

Interim teaching facilities give schools, colleges and local authorities the flexibility to increase school places to maintain the highest standards of teaching during major construction or refurbishment work or to meet a short - term surge in pupil numbers.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham will see the biggest increase in pupil numbers, requiring a total of 28 new schools, followed by Lambeth, Newham and Greenwich, which need 21, 37 and 25 new schools built, respectively.

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.

PUPIL PLACE PLANNING Graham Olway of West Sussex County Council looks at how local authorities are pursuing a range of building options to meet the increase in pupil nuPUPIL PLACE PLANNING Graham Olway of West Sussex County Council looks at how local authorities are pursuing a range of building options to meet the increase in pupil nupupil numbers

And pupil - teacher ratios have fallen by almost 50 percent due to investments in class - size reduction and an increase in the number of teachers who are not assigned to full classrooms (see Figure 2).

The SMCPC also raised the issue in its recent annual report, which named and shamed individual Oxbridge colleges for their failure to increase the number of state school pupils studying at their establishments.

With Bedford experiencing an above - average population boom, resulting in a rise in pupil numbers, Bedford Borough Council has embraced standardised designs and partnership working to increase the capacity of many of its schools

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.

The amount of pupils taking a minimum of one arts GCSE in this period has increased by 7.4 per cent and the average number of pupils studying the arts has increased by 5.4 per cent.

Increased development of new and existing businesses in West Sussex should generate significant benefit to the County Council but will undoubtedly lead to more families moving into West Sussex through new employment and thereby increasing the pupil numbers still further.

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.

«Whilst the additional funding announced earlier in the year was a step in the right direction, it was never enough to meet the needs of the increasing number of SEND pupils.»

Put quite simply — if you increase the number of connected pupil devices in your school — you will need to upgrade your Wi - Fi systems (which were probably originally built just to connect your staff and the school office) and you will need to increase your broadband speed and capacity.

Some are demographic, with pupil numbers forecast to increase at the same time as the number of people in the age group that typically enter the profession is in decline.

The surge in pupil numbers is due to many different factors, including the impact of the baby boom, increasing birth rate levels and immigration.

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.

In particular the data revealed that state secondary schools were having to accommodate for a rising number of pupils, increasing by 2.8 per cent.

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.

There are currently estimated to be 721,000 tablets for use by pupils in classrooms across UK maintained schools and academies and a forecast that by the end of 2016 the number will have increased to over 946,000.

The huge increase in the number of schools that have become academies or are about to become academies will not just change things teachers and pupils.

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.

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.

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».

The opportunity to create an innovative, alternative education for pupils has seen the likes of the National Autistic Society, Everton Football Club and Eton College decide to enter the state education sector in order to increase the number of children whose lives they improve.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

In fact, the Government's latest Department for Education (DfE) national pupil projections show that both state primary and secondary pupil numbers are expected to continue to grow over the coming years, with the number of full - time equivalent pupils aged up to 15 years projected to increase by 320,000 (11.4 %) by 2021 and to continue to grow until 2025.

Large increases in pupil numbers could create health and safety risks, particularly concerning the flow of pupils around the school.

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.