«Free Schools will not and never have addressed the issue of
school place shortages.
New Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling
the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision».
With many schools suffering from overcrowded classrooms and
a school place shortage, Craig Riley, director of Green Modular, considers whether modular buildings can play a part in tackling these challenges.
With many schools suffering from overcrowded classrooms and
a school place shortage, Craig Riley considers whether modular buildings can play a part in tackling these challenges.
There is indeed an upcoming secondary
school places shortages that will be more difficult to deal with than the primary crisis.
The secondary
school places shortage is just a few months a way in a handful of local authorities.
Not exact matches
He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high
schools to alleviate some of the stress that is
placed on the public
schools due from overcrowding and a
shortage of money.
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.
The free
school programme will be effectively abolished, and new
places only funded where there are
shortages of
places.
The challenges are there for all to see - an acute housing
shortage, a lack of
school places, a transport system barely managing to cope.
To ease
shortages of homes, downward pressure on wages and to relieve pressures on hospitals and
school places we do need to control numbers better.
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.
«There is a severe
shortage of
school places, yet this Government is sanctioning the opening of free
schools in areas where there is no demand for additional
places and eating up scarce funding in the process.
The Funding Agency for
Schools, the body responsible for GM schools last time around, made it clear in one of its final reports that there would be a shortage of secondary school places in parts of London; and so there was early in this century as no one body had overall responsibility for pl
Schools, the body responsible for GM
schools last time around, made it clear in one of its final reports that there would be a shortage of secondary school places in parts of London; and so there was early in this century as no one body had overall responsibility for pl
schools last time around, made it clear in one of its final reports that there would be a
shortage of secondary
school places in parts of London; and so there was early in this century as no one body had overall responsibility for planning.
We are concerned that more than 20 % of free
schools have been established in areas where there is no
shortage of
school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local
school of their choice.
But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a
shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their
place on faculties in
schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH research grants.»
Most students can not afford to pay for entire medical programs on their own, and Almost 800 straight - A British students are being denied a
place at medical
school despite a «crippling» national
shortage of medics that has forced the NHS
National Offer Day arrives with a warning of a
shortage of secondary
schools places.
These brand new
schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing
schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a
shortage of
places, or where the parents are not happy with the
places on offer.
This, the teacher
shortage and the failure to provide enough
school places should be her main concerns — not continuing with these unproved experiments.»
The funding differences are even more stark: if a new
school is opening under the free
school programme the capital funding comes from the generous free
school budget but if a local authority is opening a new
school, the funding must come from either general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the
shortage of
school places.
When all this is factored into a growing population, threats to public funding and an increasing
shortage of available land for development, the challenges for those with the responsibility to plan, design and deliver
school places are significant and there has never been a greater need for innovative solutions.
The most urgent problems in
schools are to do with the chronic teacher
shortage, real terms funding cuts, the
school places crisis, chaotic implementation of the curriculum, and workload going through the roof.
Bousted added: «And the government persists in wasting money by allowing free
schools to open in areas where there is no
shortage of
places.»
Marcus Sutcliffe, managing director of Elite Systems, discusses how modular construction can meet the need for
school expansion Britain is currently experiencing a distinct
shortage of
school places, and headteachers and local authorities around the country are looking for ways to accommodate additional intake — without breaking the bank.
The report says: «Faced with the greatest
shortage of
school places in decades, too many of the UK's
schools are past their life cycle and riddled with asbestos.
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of union ATL, is also on side with the NUT, stating that the «government persists in wasting money by allowing free
schools to open in areas where there is no
shortage of
places».
With three out of four students in the U.S. lacking access to summer learning programs and a
shortage of interested K - 12 students in STEM subjects, Boys & Girls Clubs serve as a partner to
schools by providing a safe and supportive
place for youth to learn without limits during out - of -
school time.
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.
However, today he will back the opening of more free
schools, but only in areas where there is a
shortage of
places — a restriction that is likely to limit their effectiveness.
Under the current system, any effort to meet the teacher
shortage by
placing alternatively certified teachers in urban
schools is bound to fall short.
Free
schools are brand new
schools set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing
schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a
shortage of
places, or where the parents are not happy with the
places on offer.
Kingsmead primary
school in Enfield, proposed by Kingsmead secondary
school, will address a local
shortage of
places.
«We are facing the worst
shortage of
school places for decades.
«Ministers must urgently tackle the serious problems they have created in education, including
school budgets falling in real terms for the first time in twenty years, chronic
shortages of teachers, not enough good
school places, and chaos and confusion in the exams system.
But the Department for Education says that almost three - quarters of the 125,000 free
school places created were in areas with a
shortage.
«The
shortage of
school places across the capital has become critical with a predicted shortfall of around 70,000 over the next four years,» it said.
Labour's Tristram Hunt blamed the government for «ploughing hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on free
schools in areas where there are no
shortages of
school 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».
Nick Timothy, director of the New
Schools Network which supports the opening of free schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for to
Schools Network which supports the opening of free
schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for to
schools, said: «The fact is, we urgently need more good new
schools - not just where there is a shortage of places but where standards have been too low for to
schools - not just where there is a
shortage of
places but where standards have been too low for too long.
«The Tories have no plan to deal with falling budgets, chronic teacher
shortages and not enough good
school places - this is no way to run a
schools system.»
Yet Britain is facing the worst
shortage of
school places for decades.
In her speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton this afternoon, the shadow education secretary drew battle lines between her and the Conservatives, stating that government education thinking was «dead» and signalling the start of a stronger campaign on teacher
shortages,
school places and cuts to sixth form funding.
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.
London's
shortage of
school places is said to be putting «unprecedented pressure» on the city's 32 local authorities.
He replied by talking about the
shortage of
school places and who was responsible.
Even a so called «Gifted» program will not work very well if the
schools simply see this group as the classes where substitute teachers can be
placed when there is a
shortage of teachers, or where the worst teachers can be assigned.
Unions have condemned plans to convert an office block into a
school as councils say the
shortage of
school places in the eastern region is a time bomb.
She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free
schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher
shortages, the widening attainment gap, the
school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.