Sentences with phrase «respondents said school»

At the same time, 13 per cent of respondents said their school was forced to run a food bank for needy pupils.

The majority of respondents said their school was providing subsidies to help meet the costs of day and residential school trips for poorer pupils, while half said their school paid all or part of the cost of participation in sports clubs and other extra-curricular activities.

Most schools do not specify how much they want parents to give, but 14 respondents said their school asks for more than # 20 a month (20 over # 10 a month and 31 over # 5).

In a survey of high - school students released by the National Governors Association in July 2005, more than a third of respondents said their school had not done a good job of challenging them academically or preparing them for college; almost two - thirds said they would work harder if the courses were more demanding or interesting.

Forty - five per cent of respondents said their school does not have a policy in place to deal with parental contact out - of - hours, meaning that many are expected to respond to emails and texts from parents during evenings and weekends.

40 % of respondents said schools could do more to motivate children, while 56 % of 55 - 64 year olds believe this is an area for significant improvement.

Not exact matches

«Our schools need to prepare the students of today to manage their lives and careers,» said one respondent.

While the oldest Gen Z - ers have just entered the workforce, 77 % of Monster's survey respondents say they're still in school.

«Anyone can now put up a website and an online survey for almost no cost, and they can get respondents in there somehow,» says Marshall David Rice, an associate professor at York University's Schulich School of Business.

Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the School of Marketing at Curtin Business School.More than two - thirds (77 per cent) of respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...

In addition, 42 % of respondents said the Florida shooting could have been prevented if school teachers were allowed to carry guns.

On the other hand, only 43 % of male respondents said their parents did not contribute financially to their schooling.

Just 20 per cent of respondents said they agreed that new state - funded state schools should be allowed to select up to 100 per cent of their pupils on the basis of faith while 79 per cent of Anglicans opposed the new selection proposals.

Just over half of the respondents said their students initially complained about nutritionally improved school meals, but 70 % agreed their students now actually like the lunches.

The project's polls in Louisiana, Ohio, and North Carolina asked about school fundraisers, and most respondents said they preferred activity - based events such as car washes or walk - a-thons to food - focused events.

About 37 per cent of respondents aged 16 to 24 said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic school, compared to 25 per cent of 45 to 54 - year - olds and 19 per cent of the over 55s.

On education, only 19 percent of respondents said the state's new Common Core educational standards have improved public schooling while 40 percent say they have worsened public education.

In addition to the 10 percent of survey respondents who said they were satisfied with their school's Internet service, another 34 percent said they were somewhat satisfied.

On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of respondents said grammar schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.

«Considering both the negative effects and the positive outcomes that respondents sometimes reported, the survey results confirm our view that neither users nor researchers can be cavalier about the risks associated with psilocybin,» says Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a psychopharmacologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Nearly one quarter (24 per cent) of YLT respondents said their families had difficulties in affording their school uniform, whilst holidays organised by schools were difficult to afford by nearly four in ten (39 per cent) families of YLT respondents.

«We found that most respondents did not think financial deprivation would lead them to behave immorally,» said Nina Mažar, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and one of the lead researchers of the study.

The ASCL survey found that despite Ofsted saying inspections do not require schools to predicts attainment of their pupils or progress score, 62 per cent of respondents stated that they were asked to predict pupil attainment.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

Forty - four per cent of school respondents said «knowing what type of support is needed» is a barrier to providing mental health support for pupils, and 37 per cent said they don't feel confident in commissioning a counsellor or therapist.

Only 15 per cent of respondents to the survey said they supported religious selection, with 68 per cent of Christian respondents opposed to the idea and 82 per cent of Muslim respondents expressing a preference for no religious selection in schools.

The survey found schools were willing to be flexible in order to recruit the right staff: 82 per cent of respondents said they had restructured roles in order to make sure they filled a post.

Forty percent of respondents believe that students who fail a course should be allowed to retake it online, and 77 % say that if a school does not offer an advanced course, then students should be allowed to take it online.

Almost 60 percent of respondents to the national survey said they knew «very little» or «nothing at all» about the independent public schools.

Among white respondents, 64 % of those with a university degree say their local schools deserve a «grade» of A or B, while only 51 % of those without that degree rate their local schools that highly.

Thus, Ednext found 36 percent of the respondents «neither supporting or opposing charter schools», while PDK found only 4 percent saying they did not know.

Respondents said the main reasons to learn a language in school was to develop pupils» understanding of cultural practices (77 %), build pupils» interpersonal skills (74 %) and to establish a path for lifelong learning (61 %).

Almost a fifth of teachers (18 %) say that the safety of staff in their school is a big concern, with only 37 % of respondents believing it is not an issue.

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

The importance of better education about periods for young women was something the majority of respondents emphatically agreed upon, over two thirds (68 %) said that if girls were better educated about periods and how they affect their bodies, they wouldn't be so reluctant to take part in sports at school.

73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.

Thirty per cent of survey respondents found applying to university difficult, 40 % report receiving little support from their school in planning their application, and 38 % say they felt intimidated when applying for university — highlighting the value of supporting young people during the process.

A separate survey of 1,003 parents across Britain also showed that 92 per cent of respondents think schools have a duty to support the wellbeing and mental health of students, while more than half said they want more information about what their child's school is doing to promote this.

Indeed, a 705 of 1,300 respondents to a survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association, said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE and, in some schools, it has been cut entirely.

67 per cent of respondents said they would send their child to a grammar school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent saying they would not.

When treatment - group parents with children in private schools were asked in the third - year follow - up study which type of school their child was attending, 93 percent of Hispanic respondents said it was a Catholic school and 71 percent of the African American respondents gave the same response.

Worse, 39 percent of respondents said they supported «the formation of charter schools,» down from 51 percent in 2016.

That ability far outranks such factors as school attended, grades received, and family income and neighborhood, the respondents said.

For example, 47 percent of respondents said they supported «school vouchers,» while 65 percent supported «scholarship tax credits» and 75 percent supported «education savings accounts.»

The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of schools.

Overall, 49 percent say that their local public schools deserve an «A» or a «B» on the scale traditionally used to evaluate students, but only 20 percent say so when respondents are asked about schools nationwide.

Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.

Over 75 per cent of respondents said their workload had increased since their school converted to academy status.

Additionally, respondents were critical of the evidence for the government's new eduction plans, as 81 per cent said they believed there is no evidence for opening grammar schools and 79 per cent believed there is no evidence for increasing selection in education.

43 per cent of respondents said that children with SEND in their schools were not eligible for funding, with 71 per cent saying that the new system does not enable children with SEN to be identified fast enough.