Sentences with phrase «number of funded places»

With the Commonwealth Government no longer controlling the maximum number of funded places in initial teacher education programs, there has been strong recent growth in the numbers of students enrolling in initial teacher education.

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Verold had won a number of competitions for startups, including the Toronto edition of the prestigious TIEQuest global business venture competition, and the $ 2 million Yaghi sought to close Verold's first round of funding was falling into place.
Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.
The exceptions were March and October, where a number of large deals took place, and December, where funds raised were relatively well distributed.
An additional $ 18.6 m will be placed into a fund over the next two years to incentivise stronger Class I utilisation rates in Federal Orders 5 and 7, which cover a number of Southeast US states.
with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).
Higuain has been placed up for sale by Real Madrid as they look to fund a big - money move for Tottenham star Gareth Bale, and a number of clubs would be keen to take on the out - of - favour forward.
The injury crisis we're currently in has been placed entirely on his shoulders and maybe rightly so (selling and loaning out defenders when we are short on numbers) for me that's the only crime he committed but if someone has the full picture of what happened in summer enlighten me because maybe just maybe he wanted to bring in a defender but the board didn't avail the funds to him.
Institutions should decide how best to apportion their total allocated place funding across the actual number of commissioned places (see How place funding and top up funding work together).
Under the finance regulations, local authorities have the flexibility to make changes to the number of pre-16 places funded in maintained schools and PRUs.
Overall, though, the funding for the school would remain above the -1.5 % MFG level if the number and types of places remained the same.
Place funding it is not intended to align exactly with the number of pupils or students in an institution at any given time, but instead provides a base level of funding for institutions and financial stability for institutions to help with stability of provision and planning.
Therefore 2016 to 2017 top - up rates are in line with the guarantee and funding to the special school should reflect these rates (for students placed by the home authority); number of students in each band; and the actual numbers of places.
Special free schools are funded direct by EFA for the number of high needs places.
It is for the institution to decide how best to apportion their total allocated place funding across the actual number of local authority commissioned places, taking into account the provision and support that may be specified in the statements of SEN or EHC plans.
The regulations do not allow local authorities to make changes to the number of post-16 funded places in maintained schools and PRUs.
Allocations of place funding for institutions are underpinned by data about the number of pupils / students with high needs occupying places.
If we want the school cafeteria to be a place where children learn about food, it needs to be fully funded — not based on the number of children who choose to partake in the healthy school meal.
The RCP's 2009 census of physicians raised concerns that although the number of consultant posts increased by 10.2 %, this will not continue as funding becomes less forthcoming for training places.
«After days of analysis and numbers - crunching, the results are clear: While charter schools will see a boost next year, the new formula which will be put in place will prevent funding parity with other public school students,» said NECSN director Andrea Rogers.
As a result, a number of reforms were put in place by legislation to ensure fund assets will be able to meet obligations.
An overall increase in the number of students in Higher Education without a commensurate increase in funding is placing another burden on PhD students which is making it difficult for them to get on with their research: An increasing teaching load is falling on them.
«There has been a massive [50 percent] increase in the number of Ph.D. applicants this year — 270 applicants for six places,» says David Attwell, the University College London (UCL) neuroscientist who oversees the four - year Ph.D. fellowship program funded by the Wellcome Trust charity.
In recent years, a small but steadily increasing number of funding programs have been put in place to help postdocs pursue their own research projects while remaining in someone else's lab.
There are a number of Graduate Schools held each year at many places around the country, usually based in halls of residence, and they're free to Research Council - and Wellcome Trust - funded students and members of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
IOP Publishing has formal central funding arrangements in place with a number of organisations worldwide to help the researchers they represent publish in our open access journals.
In the meantime a large number of federally funded human embryonic stem cell projects have been placed on hold, and even more are potentially at risk.
Although the fashion education sector has already expanded significantly to meet demand, by creating courses and enlarging the number of places on them, non-private schools — which include many of the industry's most renowned institutions — remain constrained by funding limitations and government - dictated quotas.
Many people find it hard to believe that student performance has been flat for four decades when we have more than tripled funding for schools and when we have put into place a number of reform measures.
Both of the major - party presidential candidates support increasing federal funding for special education and want to see strategies put in place to help reduce the number of students referred for such services, according to their answers to a questionnaire.
As a result, universities are no longer guaranteed funding for a set number of student places.
On the same day they cast their votes for president — November 8 — residents of one U.S. state will decide whether or not to remove a cap on the number of such schools, which are given public funding but operate free of the usual restrictions placed on conventional public schools...
The record investment includes # 42million from the Essex Schools Forum, as well as # 43million of capital funding from Essex County Council, and follows an increase in the number of young people in the county being diagnosed with autism and a growing need for special school places.
As the Apprenticeship Levy comes into effect with changes in funding now in place, it's no surprise that the number of employer providers joining the register of apprenticeship training providers (ROATP) is on the rise.
Such a fund will almost certainly help to increase the number of early years places and could help to improve earlier identification of children with special educational needs.
There will be extra funding for «sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp increases in pupil numbers.
But Surrey, Warwickshire, Essex and Kent councils all say that they need to increase the number of state - funded places.
Councils blame the shift on a lack of funds for new state places, leaving them unable to keep pace with the rising numbers of diagnoses.
They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.
The government has also said it will invest an extra # 1 billion into early years funding — seemingly calming concerns held by the schools community that the 30 - hour free childcare pledge would force schools with nurseries to cut the number of places they offer.
«We have made it easier for all successful state - funded schools to increase the number of places they offer and we are building new free schools to meet demand from parents.
«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.
The NAO noted that this «spare capacity» can affect pupil numbers and therefore funding in neighbouring schools and referred to DfE data indicating that «spare places in 52 free schools opening in 2015 could have a moderate or high impact on the funding of any of 282 neighbouring schools».
The cap, which was devised back in 1993 along with a flat per capita funding rate, was put in place in part to deter districts from over identifying the number of students qualifying for special needs.
As a Title I district serving a large number of children from low - income families in the under - funded state of Arizona, leaders at Phoenix Elementary District # 1 (Phoenix # 1) face many challenges when it comes to placing a quality teacher in every classroom... but they refuse to let those challenges affect their students.
Disbursed through the «Children with Disabilities» allotment, state dollars for this student population (on top of a standard base allotment) are distributed in accordance with a funding formula that includes placing a cap on the number of special needs students who will be served in each district.
I'm proud of the impact we've made, but we need to double - down on our efforts at a time when so many students are being targeted or unfairly treated because of their race, religion, gender, and nation of origin; when vital funding that helps disadvantaged children is at risk; and when proven solutions that can significantly increase the number of children who read by third grade and who graduate high school career or college ready still aren't in place across our nation.
We are strongly opposed to plans to reduce per place funding for mainstream schools with special units from # 10,000 to # 6,000, with the rest of the funding dependent on the number of pupils in the unit in any one year.
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