Sentences with phrase «pupils going to university»

Janet Clark, education policy adviser at ATL, comments on drop in disadvantaged pupils going to university.

The fact that fewer affluent pupils went to university after doing NCS might be because they had joined to boost weak university applications, said the report.

40 % of pupils go to university, don't they all need academic schools?

Only 22 per cent of FSM pupils go to University, which is why the Broadford University programme is so important.

Not exact matches

Chinese pupils had the highest attainment throughout school, made the most progress and were the most likely to stay in education and go to university.

Educational charity the Sutton Trust revealed research today that indicates increasing numbers state school pupils are planning to go to university in the next decade.

Labour's Ed Miliband says that advantaged pupils are much more likely to go to university.

The money, which will go to 1,500 pupils, will be spent on after - school clubs and activities in order to improve their chances of getting into one of the elite Russell group universities.

Between 2005 and 2007 the number of pupils receiving free school meals — a standard measure of poverty — who went to university jumped by 18 % compared to a rise of 9 % among pupils not entitled to free school meals.

For not only would it raise aspirations of pupils in all schools, but it would ensure that more privately - educated high achievers went to a wider spread of universities, raising the bar across higher education generally.

Details of the scheme, which is expected to be ready for pupils applying to go to university next year, have yet to be finalised but could mean students receive around 75 % of their course fees, as well as some living costs, in return for a teaching commitment of between five and seven years.

James Noble - Rogers, executive director of the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET), said: «Recruitment to secondary programmes is becoming increasingly challenging, and will become more so as pupil numbers go up.

Currently only around 1,200 pupils on Free School Meals go on to Russell Group universities each year, just 1.5 % of the 80,000 pupils eligible each year for Free School Meals in secondary schools.

However, pupils from more affluent backgrounds are less likely to go to university if they do the four - week holiday course, with a 10 percentage point drop in girls and 8 point drop for boys.

Disadvantaged pupils are more likely to go to university if they do the government's National Citizen Service (NCS).

Poorer pupils are «far less likely» to go to university compared to richer peers with similar grades, according to new research.

As students receive their GCSE results today, many pupils will go on to study for their A-levels before moving on to university.

UK wide support for disadvantaged pupils for those considering and going to university, starting before age 16.

At present, pupils on free school meals are 40 per cent more likely to get good GCSEs in maths and English in London, and twice as likely to go to university, than their peers in the north.

It found that white British pupils from the poorest families were the least likely to go to university.

It says this may be because these pupils are more likely to get good exam results and to go to a top university.

I have made a difference to pupils through the Uni Pathways course which provides a forum for trainee teachers on the RIS programme to introduce Year 10 pupils to topics they might go on to study at university.

Mel West, co-editor of the review and head of Manchester University's school of education, says that schools in isolation are not going to be able to achieve a more equal outcome for pupils.

John Blaney, the executive headteacher of Royal Docks Academy, said he wanted all his pupils to have the chance to go to any university in the world or embark on apprenticeships.

As many as 2,500 schools, 300 colleges and 100 universities have been involved in the Aimhigher scheme, which attempts to encourage teenagers or primary school pupils from less - advantaged backgrounds to go to university.

«With basic needs not met, these under - resourced schools face an upward struggle in supporting their pupils in the matriculation exams which allow you to go to university in South Africa.»

And in general, pupils from private schools were 22 times more likely to go to a top university than those who had been on free school meals, the Trust said.

There's going to be ample opportunity for enrichment activities at the University of Birmingham school, with teachers being paid more — the figure is yet to be finalise — to give every pupil five hours of enrichment each week.

Our Futures pupils have been supported to go on to do incredible things, with some graduating university to become a teacher through Teach First.

And we know that disadvantaged pupils from grammar schools are almost twice as likely to go to a top Russell Group university as those from more affluent comprehensive schools.

For example, among schools where pupils achieved an average of 801 - 850 A-level points each (900 is equivalent to three A grades), 26 % of the comprehensive school pupils went on to the selective universities, compared with 45 % of the independent school pupils.

Its table shows, by individual school, what percentage of pupils went forward into higher education in general, and what percentage went to a list of 30 universities the charity considers «highly selective».

Sir Peter, chairman of the Sutton Trust which campaigns for social mobility through better access to higher education for disadvantaged pupils, said: «Universities should consider where a student went to school, their parents» occupation and whether either parent went to university.

This means that chambers will continue to choose pupils who went to the best universities, and who can afford to risk the course.