Sentences with phrase «more good school»

Opportunity areas are not simply about addressing the need for more good school places in all parts of the country.

Nick Gibb, England's School Standards Minister, described the results as a «useful insight» and showed the need to «make more good school places available» in grammar schools.

Free schools are providing more good school places in more parts of the country.

Yet, the Government has not demonstrated that the creation of grammar schools will lead to more good school places overall.

Pressed by Marr to give a «concrete example of what is going to change» as part of the new shared society, Greening said: «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country.

Today's approvals build on the government's strong record in creating more good school places.

«That's why our consultation on creating more good school places in more parts of the country includes proposals to scrap the ban on new grammar schools — on the strict condition they improve the education of other pupils in the system — as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools.»

It is the vacuousness of the statement «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country» before Greening gets to her solution which worries me.

«But we know there is more to do, and that's precisely why we have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country - including scrapping the ban on new grammar school places, and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools.»

«That doesn't just mean building more good school places; it means teaching children what they need to know to make something of themselves.»

Gibb (pictured right) added: «We have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents in more parts of the country.

«That means more good school places and giving people the chance to learn and upskill throughout their lives with high - quality degrees, apprenticeships and other technical and vocational qualifications.»

A three - month consultation has opened on the DfE website over the plans to create more good school places.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

«And by investing # 280m over the next two years to target resources at the schools most in need to improve school performance and deliver more good school places.»

Education Secretary Michael Gove argues that allowing good schools to expand will create more good school places, and so increase choice.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our proposals are about creating more choice, with more good school places for more parents in more parts of the country.

«[Free schools] are creating more good school places for our children.

This funding will transform the condition of school buildings and help our best schools to expand, creating more good school places for families and raising standards for pupils.

«We are raising standards across the country so that every child can go to a good school where they are taught the knowledge and skills they need for future success and we're investing # 5.8 billion to create even more good school places.

Education secretary Justine Greening is calling for closer working between independent and state schools to create more good school places.

«The proposals we are putting forward go considerably further than some of the ideas the green paper suggested and by helping create more good school places, both in state and independent schools, we would be helping to expand real social mobility in this country.»

The proposal comes as part of the ISC's response to the «Schools that work for everyone» green paper, which asked independent schools what they can do to «support more good school places and help children of all backgrounds to succeed».

Whilst there, she co-authored the report, More Good School Places, which was the first to recommend a «Pupil Premium» of # 6000 extra funding for each disadvantaged child in the country's state schools.

This initiative mattered only if it resulted in more good schools for our kids.

«We can not create more good schools for our children by accepting more failing schools,» Mary Bradley, CPS top officer responsible for charter schools, told the commission before it decided to keep the South Side charters open.

«I wanted to create a whole system of schools that would be improved, so that my legacy would not be a few more good schools.»

More good schools mean more opportunity for all children to get a great public education.»

Especially given the findings of our recent Free Schools report which found that they have not been targeted in areas where more good schools are needed.

(I feel like a broken record harping on and on about school quality, but don't we all want more good schools for our students?!)

«It makes sense to create more good schools for these communities with an understanding of the limitations of successful charter models.

Dayton's need for more good schools is stark: out of 608 school districts in the state, Dayton Public Schools is second from the bottom, and a perennial low - ranker.

DUNCAN: I've been clear everywhere I've gone, and, you know, we just need more good schools in this country.

He said the committee was «very clear in our report that there are more good schools in England than ever before».

And more good schools we have in this country, the better we're going to do.

Not exact matches

Ours is showing you good people for you to meet regardless of whether they're down the block or across the city, and because of the accountability and transparency that's in Hinge — we show first name, last name, where you work, where you went to school, all these different aspects — it's much more geared towards quality interactions.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

I found some good research from Harvard Business School, Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship, which suggest that serial entrepreneurs that have prior success are more likely to have success, and that the best VCs are good at picking serial entrepreneurs.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

The No. 1 thing they can do is to move to a location with good schools, great opportunities, and the chance to grow up with more privileged peers.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

Adding to the rankings were how well programs equipped their students with skills recruiters seek and student feedback on the school's academics, career services and more.

One of the better known online learning platforms, Coursera partners with ivy league schools like Stanford and University of Pennsylvania to offer top quality courses for free, or at least at more affordable rates.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

In the less than two years FDS has been operating, it has trained more than 25,000 students in after - school and weekend programs, as well as summer camps.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.