Sentences with phrase «local state schools»

Analysis from the New Schools Network has found stark regional differences in the proportion of pupils studying A-levels in local state schools in England.

Maynard Awards offering 100 % fee remission into our Sixth Form are offered to talented students from local state schools.

Currently, there are seven staff on the governing bodies of local state schools, as well as one at a special school and two at prep schools.

Councils say that a rise in pupils diagnosed with autism, social and emotional needs, or severe physical and neurological needs, has put pressure on local state school places.

More recently, Harrow's focus on super-curricular engagement spawned the idea of producing and circulating a termly calendar of academic events to which local state school pupils could be invited, to assist all pupils concerned with building evidence of super-curricular engagement for subsequent applications.

The Swan School will open in Oxford and the John Donne Primary Free School in Peckham, both supported by local state schools.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: «We want all parents to have the choice of a good local state school.

The trust's Open Access scheme proposes that participating schools should receive the same funding per pupil as local state schools, but charge fees on a means - tested basis, with the poorest families paying nothing.

It quickly became apparent how mutually beneficial such exchanges could be, with all pupils involved gaining much from the experience of being interviewed and challenged outside their normal «comfort zone», such that a formal drive not just to continue those partnerships but to expand such exchanges to other local state schools came into effect.

The second is an unnamed man masquerading under false pretenses as a teacher who is intent on bringing the school to ruin The third voice belongs to a young adolescent boy thirteen years in the past who, as the son of St Oswald's caretaker but destined to attend the scruffy local state school, finds himself drawn to the august corridors of St Oswald's.

Knowing that they will not have to carry the expenses, students would not have to be practical about their school choice; instead of choosing the excellent local state school, they could opt for a private college in the tropics because they will never be responsible for paying it back.

Currently, there are seven staff on the governing bodies of local state schools, as well as one at a s...

You can say «I'm not paying for you to go to Harvard» but you can't say «I'm not paying for you to go to the local community college or local state school».

Listening to the question with his head in his hands, he went on to say: «For us our kids went all the way through their schooling in the local state schools.

It aims to end the absurd situation whereby a child can be denied a place at their local state school because their family is of the wrong religion or of no religion.

She attended a non-fee paying grammar school in Birmingham where she was «not particularly well - behaved,» although she suggests her behaviour would have raised far less eyebrows at the local state school.

He added that he had wanted to go private rather than attend a local state school in Abbott's Hackney constituency.

The Daily Mirror named Ms Kelly as the cabinet minister revealed in an earlier Mail on Sunday article to have withdrawn her son from a local state school for a # 15,000 - a-year private school because of learning difficulties.

Ms Kelly claimed she removed her son from a local state school on the advice that a specialist private school would be better able to meet his educational needs.

I only applied to the local state school because I had a boyfriend that I wanted to stay close to (and I am no longer dating so that was pointless) and I didn't want to give up riding my horses.

One term I'd be at an expensive prep school in Belgravia, the next at the local state school.

As a result, the Sutton Trust has since called on the government to ensure that disadvantaged pupils have fair access to local state schools.

Currently, there are seven staff on the governing bodies of local state schools, as well as one at a special s...

Academic departments at Harrow arrange mock interview exchange programmes with a number of local state schools.

Good communication and coordination of the scheme is vital to its success: overall the scheme involves twelve local state schools and Cathedral Education, has thirteen St Albans School staff involved and between sixty and seventy Lower Sixth pupils who assist with Partnership activities on Friday afternoons.

Smaller private schools will be expected to share resources by offering up teachers to give lessons in local state schools, and independent educators must offer more scholarships and bursaries to pupils who can not afford fees.

In the Senior school, local state schools are invited to tak...

It wasn't long before we found ourselves embarking on a five - week pilot scheme, during which time five of our Sixth Form students mentored 19 Year 4 students from a local state school, Goodrich Primary School.

Local state schools are invited to take part in workshops and other events.

In the Senior school, local state schools are invited to take part in career based information days and activities focusing on women and mainly STEM subjects.

I am embarking on the enrolment process for my daughter at the moment and I have chosen the local state school.

Our local state schools in Portsmouth do less sport than when I was at school in the fifties.

He could have gone to a local state school and been $ 25,000 in debt, graduated with the same degree, and also not been able to get a job, but he didn't.

I went to a local private high school and graduated college at a local state school with a degree in English and Journalism.