Sentences with phrase «more pupils from»

More pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, Special Educational Needs (SEN) pupils and pupils on free school meals are being entered for English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects compared to last year, ensuring pupils have the knowledge and skills they need for future success; and

The government's reforms will offer new and existing grammar schools the choice between admitting more pupils from a deprived background, setting up free schools or sponsoring underperforming academies.

But both Theresa May and Justine Greening, the education secretary, have claimed they do not want to see a return to the «binary system» of grammar schools and secondary moderns of the 1950s, and have unveiled plans to force selective schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Free schools are at the heart of the government's commitment to deliver real social justice by ensuring more pupils from all backgrounds have access to a world class education.

Proposals in the green paper for grammar schools to admit more pupils from low - income families will suck out cash from comprehensives that would help the most deprived children,...

If you want to halve the achievement gap in GCSEs, all you need are six more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds passing per school

But if you want to halve the achievement gap in GCSEs, all you need are six more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds passing per school.

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

«We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, which is why we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

Grammar schools attempting to show they can reform by taking more pupils from low income families could be «put off» by higher levels of teacher turnover, it has been warned.

A Department for Education spokesperson said grammar schools provided «a good education for their disadvantaged pupils», adding: «we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that».

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, and we want more pupils from lower - income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

The data also reveals that more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, SEN pupils and pupils on free school meals are being entered for EBacc subjects since last year — helping ensure pupils have the knowledge and skills they need for future success.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

Not exact matches

Mr Campbell said his struggle to keep his boyfriend a secret from the college was made more difficult when three pupils arrived at the wedding of his aunt.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

Students attending faith state schools in England are less likely to be absent from school than pupils... More

The prof might have expected a bit more support from his former star pupil Thierry Henry though.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

«If it is the case that pupils from the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.

When asked about how financial pressures affect pupils, 72 % said they were more likely to be absent from school, 65 % said they were less able to concentrate in lessons, 60 % said they caused behaviour problems and 40 % said they felt alienated and disaffected.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Commissioner for Special Duties in Ogun State, Adeleke Adewolu, has said more than 270,000 pupils in 1,510 public primary schools in the state are currently benefitting from the Federal Government's HomeGrown School feeding programme.

The Government has failed to keep the promise in the Coalition Agreement that this pledge — intended to spend more money on disadvantaged pupils — would be funded «from outside the schools budget».

«Increased freedoms for schools have also resulted in heightened concerns about widening racial disparities affecting BME pupils, with black Caribbean pupils being three times more likely to be excluded from schools comparted to white pupils.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

«All the evidence confirms that schools that work in isolation from others are more likely to experience problems of disruptive pupil behaviour and truancy.

Teachers, parents and pupils from across the country joined politicians at Westminster calling for more money to be spent on schools.

Sam, now more the teacher than the political researcher, finds himself the subject of a poignant inquisition from a highly masculine black pupil.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as unlawfully having more than 30 pupils on the census day was 310 (from a total of 54,790 classes), 0.6 per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 0.3 per cent in January 2010.

In January 2011, 6.6 per cent of classes in state - funded secondary schools contained more than 30 pupils, down from 6.5 per cent in January 2010.

The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as having more than 30 pupils, but which met legal requirements (which allow infant classes of more than 30 in very limited circumstances) on the census day was 1,060 (from a total of 54,790 classes), 1.9 per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 1.6 per cent in January 2010.

In January 2011, 9.4 per cent of classes in state - funded primary schools contained more than 30 pupils, down from 9.5 per cent in January 2010.

The proportion of Key Stage 2 classes reported as having more than 30 pupils on the census day was 14.5 per cent, down from 15.0 per cent in January 2010.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

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.

«What's more, the introduction of free schools has led to increased segregation where pupils from the same social background increasingly concentrate in certain attractive free schools.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

The pupil premium, introduced «to make sure we are fair to children from low income backgrounds», will be protected in real terms «so every poor child will have more cash spent on their future than ever before».

In an open letter to de Blasio on May 12, Moskowitz stated that a payment of more than $ 1.9 million in per - pupil funding for Success Academy Harlem 3's location on West 111th Street was due on May 1, but had not yet been received from the Department of Education (DOE).

«Pupil premium»: More funding for poorer children from outside schools budget, as demanded by Lib Dems

Over the last 15 years, spending on education in New York has more than doubled, from $ 28 billion to $ 58 billion, and we spend more per pupil than any other state in the nation, yet our students remain in the bottom half when it comes to results.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

It will have to save more from schemes outside the core schools budget to part - subsidise the pupil premium, which will receive more funding from outside the department's budget.

But younger pupils — who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age — used a more complex series of signs.

They examined the links between the number of outlets and teenage smoking habits using responses from a survey of more than 20,000 school pupils aged between 13 and 15.

The latter technique was arguably more efficient for the test circumstances, which differed from those in which Figaro had made his first discovery; the pupils in this sense surpassed the teacher's performance.

In the overall gloom, the pupil expands from ~ 2 mm to ~ 6 mm, and each retinal cell exposed to the solar image receives about ten times more light than it would looking at the non-eclipsed sun.

While, from 1975 onwards, his first Western pupils David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff were still confronted with three practice series which became progressively more difficult, he, in his last years before his death in 2009, taught six progressively more difficult practice series.