Sentences with phrase «primary places shortage»

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Schools and parents are facing a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests, and a funding crisis.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

Andy Bird, CEO of Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, said: «We are delighted to be a pivotal part of the solution of addressing Birmingham's shortage of primary places.

A pioneering secondary school in Birmingham is to open a new # 3.5 million primary school in a bid to tackle a shortage of places in the city.

The shortage of places saw one in seven children in Birmingham missing out on their first preference of primary school for the 2016/17 academic year.

Kingsmead primary school in Enfield, proposed by Kingsmead secondary school, will address a local shortage of places.

UKIP's education spokesman Paul Nuttall said the only truth in Tristram Hunt's speech was about the «shameful shortage of primary school places».

But because of primary school shortages near the Olympic Park, children living there have been offered places in his nearest school - and the knock - on effect has meant his children have to go to a school further away.

«Any funding to address the shortage in primary places is welcome but this is money that was announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn Statement in November.

A rise in the number of pupils and a shortage of primary school places has led some councils to consider turning empty shops and playing fields into classrooms.

There are also concerns about a shortage of primary school places in the next few years in some areas, with London predicting a shortfall of about 70,000 over the next four years.

Earlier this week, John Howson, a research fellow at Oxford University's education department, described the shortage of primary places as the «biggest problem» facing the school system.

It is also relaxing building regulations so that new schools can occupy a smaller space - secondary schools by 15 % and primary schools by 5 % - but the DfE says this has nothing to do with the shortage of places.

London boroughs alone are facing a shortage of 118,000 primary and secondary school places up until 2016 - 17.

There is indeed an upcoming secondary school places shortages that will be more difficult to deal with than the primary crisis.

«It is extraordinary that at a time when the shortage of primary school places amounts to nothing short of a national crisis that the government is persisting with the folly of its free school policy,» she said.

Earlier this year, Sutton Council in London called on the government to lift the limit on infant class sizes, saying this would help deal with the shortage of primary school places.

A Dorset town faces a shortage of primary school places caused by a «dramatic increase» in births since 2005.