Sentences with phrase «of education select»

The chair of the education select committee has written to deputy general secretary of the NUT Kevin Courtney accusing him of misrepresenting its views on academies.

In a letter to chair of the education select committee, Neil Carmichael, education secretary Nicky Morgan said she agreed the subject was «crucial for preparing young people for life», so would focus on the quality of teaching.

Neil Carmichael MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee, said: «One of the best ways to give back to your local community is by serving as a governor and supporting local schools to become more successful and their pupils to achieve their best.

Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, campaigned in the corridors of Parliament for the position using leaflets and badges as if he were in...

• Robert Halfon, the chair of the education select committee, thinks there is too much bureaucracy around the work of the regional schools commissioners: «It needs to be much clearer and cut through the red tape.»

Earlier this week, she defended the plans in front of the Education Select Committee, saying they would create «a strong, consistent system».

The government has been accused of squandering resources by running two careers services in parallel — the CEC and the National Careers Service — notably by the chair of the education select committee Robert Halfon.

Ian Comfort, who runs the Academies Enterprise Trust, told a special meeting of the education select committee convened this week to discuss the commissioners» role, that visits from the separate bodies were often too close together and put unnecessary pressure on schools.

At the launch of Joseph Rowntree Foundation's state of the nation report, UK Poverty 2017, the Chair of the Education Select Committee Robert Halfon MP gave the keynote address, identifying the importance of education and equal access.

After eight years in post, Graham Stuart has said that he will not be putting his name forward to be chair of the education select committee this parliamentary term.

Neil Carmichael, who chairs of the Education Select Committee, suggested there needed to be a mechanism for a more substantial increase for schools in areas that had a long problem with underfunding.

This is despite former chair of the education select committee Graham Stuart asking the group to produce research to back up its belief about «facilitating subjects», after it was questioned in a study by think tank LKMco.

Tory MP Graham Stuart - chair of the education select committee - said some schools will struggle to comply with it and should be given more «discretion».

Trudy Harrison, MP for Copeland and a member of the education select committee, has called for Bright Tribe to step aside from the «inadequate» rated Whitehaven Academy and accused them of «neglecting» their responsibilities to the school.

Excluded pupils should be protected by a «bill of rights» that would allow proper scrutiny of their school's decision to kick them out, the influential chair of the education select committee has said.

Neil Carmichael, the former chair of the education select committee who lost his seat as an MP at the last election, has been appointed a senior adviser at the political lobbying firm PLMR.

Robert Halfon, chair of the education select committee, recently warned that taxpayers were currently expected to «lavishly furnish universities», when the real shortage was in vocational skills.

In my opinion — and that of the Education Select Committee — one of the biggest challenges for developing appropriate oversight of changing education provision is ensuring transparency so that the system can be understood by everyone from politicians right through to parents.

The lack of thought underpinning Gove's White Paper (which was, as we now know, based on the false premise that the UK was plummeting down PISA league tables) is an example of what Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, describes as the «Acting first; thinking later» approach of the DfE towards education reform.

Graham Stuart, former chair of the education select committee, has been campaigning for this change and said «in principle this represents a huge step forward».

Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, campaigned in the corridors of Parliament for the position using leaflets and badges as if he were in a school election for class representative.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

A former member of the education select committee, Glass briefly became a member of the shadow education team last September when she was given the childcare and early years brief, but was replaced by Jenny Chapman when she was promoted in January.

In February, Schools Week reported on the findings of the education select committee's teacher recruitment and retention inquiry, which called on the government to give all teachers the chance to formally improve their professional development as one way to boost retention rates.

As Michael told members of the education select committee earlier this year, we are moving incrementally and inexorably towards clusters of schools supporting and evaluating each other, led by an outstanding headteacher of an outstanding school.

A shadow education minister since 2005, he was a member of the education select committee before that.

Conservative MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the education select committee, said he was happy with the idea of Sir David floating ideas, but said he still wanted to see more transparency in the RSC system and national commissioner role.

Schools that fail to send pupils into apprenticeships should lose some of their pupil premium funding, the chair of the education select committee has said.

She is a member of the Education Select Committee.

More recently, MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee has voiced his support of including skills, such as engineering, in the Ebacc.

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, has challenged the Department for Education (DfE) to improve the financial management of academies.

The chairman of the Education Select Committee, Neil Carmichael, who led calls for the subject to be made compulsory, accused ministers of «brushing over» the proposals and providing a «feeble» response, as it has already taken them six months to make it.

«As part of the Education Select Committee I have visited hundreds of different schools across the country and I can honestly say that I have not seen a school which is more in need of repair than Todmorden High.»

While Conservative grassroots, along with a number of cabinet ministers, support the move, chair of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP Neil Carmichael has also voice opposition to lifting the ban.

More interestingly, Neil Carmichael, Conservative MP and chair of the Education Select Committee, has also voiced opposition to the idea.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

Contributors include the President of the National Union of Students, Shakira Martin, the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Rob Halfon MP, and the Sutton Trust's Director of Research, Conor Ryan.

It was claimed by Plashet School, London, which places STEM at the heart of its curriculum and has seen its STEM Club, run by science teacher Ann English, gain governmental praise from MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee.

A member of the education select committee, as well as the GMB union, most of her working life has been in education.

Conservative Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, was quick to spot that, even after cutting # 200m from the free schools budget, there was still # 1.1 bn of savings unaccounted for.

She became a member of the Education Select Committee in 2010, stepping down in 2013 after she became a member of the Health Select Committee.

Graham Stuart is the MP for Beverley and Holderness, and the Chairman of the Education Select Committee.

One of them is Graham Stuart, the chair of the education select committee, who wrote for Politics.co.uk on Friday:

In my time as Chair of the Education Select Committee I witnessed several successful reforms such as the regulation of class sizes and admissions code reform.

Graham Stuart is the Chairman of the Education Select Committee, and the MP for Beverley and Holderness.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

The Board of Education selected the chancellor.

Kenyan Ministry of Education selects local business NetSupport to aid national literacy programme

Last week, the city's board of education selected Constance E. Clayton, who has been the district's associate superintendent for early - childhood education since 1978.