Sentences with phrase «pupil places»

The recent challenges were in the primary schools with a lack of pupil places to meet the demand.

We are demanding that local democratic authorities will organise school admissions, exclusions, pupil place planning for all schools in their area.

The pressures on schools to increase the number of available pupil places has been widely reported in recent years.

ALT is opening two new schools in Littleport this month to meet a need for additional pupil places in secondary and special education.

An East London school could become the biggest in the country as proposals are drawn up to help ease the current pupil place crisis.

The first wave of investment for the Century Schools and Education Programme, which concludes in 2019, focuses on reducing the poor condition of school buildings and providing pupil places where needed.

(Given the small number of pupils placed in schools to date, the current findings provide perceptions of impact.

With pupil numbers set to rise, new data from The Key suggests that at least 12,300 schools in England would be unable to meet the additional demand for pupil places with their current buildings, budget and facilities...

Through Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP), money has been invested in the educational school estate, however due to the lack of investment for years, this has focused on the backlog maintenance required across the whole school estate, alongside pupil place needs.

The capital needs to create 133,000 more pupil places by 2018, according to a recent report by London Councils.

Many councils are looking at innovative solutions to provide extra pupil places, with some opening new primaries in police stations and church halls, and one school opening a playground on a roof top.

The first phase, which continues until March 2019, focuses on reducing the poor condition of school buildings and providing pupil places where needed by reducing surplus capacity, and addressing specific Welsh medium and Faith based provision needs.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said local authorities would continue to create thousands more school places in coming years, with 600,000 additional pupil places created in the five years to May 2015.

Conversely, only 5 percent of foreign students said U.S. pupils place a much greater importance on success at math than their peers at home.

Simon Knight, director of education at the National Education Trust, says the lack of data makes it «currently unclear» how the challenge of insufficient SEND pupil places could be overcome.

Education secretary Justine Greening has detailed how # 2.4 million will be spent on improving school buildings and creating extra pupil places

The DfE can not compel academies to share their land, but changes to funding agreements will make it difficult to resist Amid concerns about the shortage of pupil places...

A DfE spokesman said: «The government, in a tight capital settlement for 2011 - 12, prioritised basic need to support the provision of additional pupil places, including doubling the amount allocated to local authorities to # 800m.

PUPIL PLACE PLANNING Graham Olway of West Sussex County Council looks at how local authorities are pursuing a range of building options to meet the increase in pupil numbers

Currently free schools can be set up where there is either a need for more pupil places or an «education need» — where there are several schools with «poor standards» in an area.

Sean Harford (pictured), Ofsted's national director for education, told Schools Week he welcomed the plans: «These proposals are about ensuring schools commission high quality AP and remain accountable for the educational outcomes of pupils placed in such settings.»

The school is suffering from serious budget constraints because of a lack of demand for pupil places and is also set to lose a deputy headteacher, the Schools Adjudicator's response showed.

However, with an expected extra 880,000 pupil places needed by 2023, more localised support is needed to meet and prepare for this growing demand.»

While the pressure for pupil places is presently being felt more at the primary level, with three in five primary school leaders (60 %) stating their school was oversubscribed, secondary schools are not far behind — with more than half (52 %) reporting being oversubscribed for the 2015/16 academic year.

Speaking about their situation, a headteacher of a south London primary school, said: «This year we had 222 applications for 60 pupil places and it's been a similar story the last few years.

Pupil places It is no secret that the majority of UK schools are struggling with high demand for school places with a lack of additional facilities available in most areas.

School's in England should look to New York City and «build upwards» to meet the demand for additional pupil places, according to schools minister Lord Nash.

London could face a pupil place crisis with the school age population set to rise by 12 per cent over the next few years and a possible funding gap, a new report argues.

More and more schools are turning to modular build solutions as a result of two unmanageable and unrelenting increases — a rise in pupil place demand and a rise in building cost.

In 2015, it was reported that over the next five years, schools will be faced with demand for an extra 460,000 pupil places.

At the moment, only maintained schools are forced to accept a pupil and the council only have the power to ask the EFA to advise academies to give a pupil a place.

Experts at the Good School Guide have predicted that 28,000 children in London starting secondary school in September will not get their top preference, adding to fears of a pupil place crisis in the capital.

Both schools have managed to increase their capacity as a result of the refurbishments, with Bank View extending its intake from 120 to 150 pupils and Redbridge increasing from 90 to 120 pupil places.

In particular, a shortage in pupil places is placing a huge burden on schools to increase classroom sizes, numbers and implement redevelopment projects to make better use of existing structures.

The government has committed to providing each pupil a place at a good school, but this key objective is becoming harder to achieve in the face of budget pressures and increasing numbers of children entering the education system.

Education Business chats to RIBA's Caroline Buckingham about the importance of good design when developing new school buildings and what should be done to tackle the pupil place shortage

With schools up and down the country under pressure to provide extra pupil places, Jackie Maginnis from the MPBA explores how modular buildings can be the solution that the sector is searching for

We would welcome continued links with the LA whether informally or formally through governance, service level agreements, planning of pupil places, special needs provision, buildings, etc..

However, in 2013, the National Audit Office reported that free schools were not always being set up in areas of greatest need for pupil places.

A Department for Education spokesperson said exclusions could only be issued on disciplinary grounds and that it was introducing stronger measures to ensure mainstream schools continue to be accountable for the progress of pupils they place in alternative provision.

«Schools should be inclusive and tolerant and no state - funded school should be allowed to discriminate on the grounds of religion for any of their teacher posts or any pupil places.»

«Nearly 600,000 additional pupil places were created between May 2010 and May 2015, and the government is now pushing ahead with the creation of a further 600,000 new school places as part of its wider # 23bn investment in the school estate up to 2021.»

«UTCs and the curriculum they offer need to be part of an overarching area wide strategic plan for pupil places,» he said.

We really need a third tier in education management and any future governments will need to take steps to promote this to ensure adequate numbers of pupil places, proper support for schools, local accountability.

Two of the government's new free schools in north - east England have filled fewer than two - thirds of their pupil places, according to new figures.

A # 10m new free school in part of Birmingham will cause an excess of pupil places and put other schools in the area at risk, a council has said.