Sentences with phrase «numbers of pupils failing»

Individual schools have reported unprecedented numbers of pupils failing to get a grade C or above.

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Wilshaw is expected to say that the number of 16 to 18 year - olds being taken on as apprentices is as low as it was a decade ago, and the low figures are partially a result of schools failing to push pupils down vocational routes.

«Given this was a voluntary process with only 25 % of schools responding, it is reasonable to assume that schools who know they are not compliant would be less likely to respond, therefore the true number who are failing to comply could be substantially higher, with hundreds of schools putting pupils and teachers at risk by failing to manage asbestos effectively.

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

The head of one of the UK's leading education sector suppliers has said that a growing number of «shabby schools» across the UK are not only failing pupils but are contributing to the lack of new entrants to the teaching profession, when linked to new schools spending data revealed by the company.

Instead, the most substantial issue, according to the NFER, is that teaching numbers are failing to respond to the soaring numbers of pupils.

We felt that the manifestos of all three main parties missed some of the wider strategic points; for example, though they talked about teacher recruitment, they failed to address teacher retention or growing pupil numbers.

Schools Week revealed last month that the DfE needed to claw back # 11 million from more than 100 free schools after they failed to recruit the expected numbers of pupils in the past academic year.

But the research argued that the system of recruiting and retaining staff was failing to keep pace with the rapidly increasing demand for extra teachers, as rising numbers of pupils have seen schools expanding.

Once the policymakers determined a bench mark applicable to the greatest number of poorly performing schools and based upon an assumed principle that they were failing to maximise the potential of their pupils a number of difficulties are encountered.

The education watchdog's report is the latest warning about the number of «coasting» schools, often in prosperous areas, where schools might achieve respectable results, but fail to stretch pupils.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.