Part 6 of the Act makes it unlawful for the responsible body of a school to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to admissions, the way it provides education for pupils, provision of
pupil access to any benefit, facility or service, or by excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment.
The Equality Duty states that: It is unlawful for the responsible body of a school to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to admissions, the way it provides education for pupils, provision of
pupil access to any benefit, facility or service, or by excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment.
Not exact matches
A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «
Pupils are already
benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks
to our reforms more of them than ever before are going
to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can
access a good school place for their children.
Results suggest that long - term use of the tablet has a profound effect on pedagogy, and that
pupils benefit from having
access to content both at school and at home.
The
benefits and risks of easy internet
access for
pupils are clear, so it's important
to find the right balance.»
Linked
to this centre will be a national network of 40 school - led Computing Hubs where teachers will be able
to access specialist training which will
benefit pupils
Dr Becky Allen, Director of Education Datalab, said: «There are many
benefits to giving parents a choice over where their child is educated, but our new research shows that that there is not equity in
access to many primary schools, either because higher - income families are advantaged in their ability
to exercise choice or because their admissions criteria favour certain
pupils.»
«
Pupils are already
benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks
to our reforms more of them than ever before are going
to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can
access a good school place for their children.»
«We know that these
pupils aren't able
to access the books independently anyway, so the
benefits of more reading won't accrue for those readers in the first place,» he said.
May said it was «completely illogical»
to make it illegal
to open good schools, and accused other politicians of putting their own «dogma and ideology» before
pupils, and denying others
access to the kind of education that they themselves had often
benefited from.