Sentences with phrase «school places crisis»

The furore over a looming primary school place crisis has intensified during the election campaign, with Labour accusing the Conservatives of causing a crisis in primary school places because of the high costs of their free schools policy.

Graham Olway, principal manager, Capital Planning & Projects at West Sussex County Council, shares his thoughts on why «modular» and not «traditional» may be able to provide the most suitable solution to the impending school places crisis.

«If we are to avoid this looming secondary school places crisis, councils need to be able to force existing academy schools to expand if voluntary agreement is impossible and must be given back powers to open new maintained schools themselves.»

«And we have a looming school places crisis as a result.»

Is «modular» the solution to the school places crisis?

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.

Threatened with buildings that are no longer fit for purpose, overcrowded classrooms and a school place crisis, the education sector needs sustainable and cost effective solutions to meet the needs of Britain's school children.

Addressing the school place crisis would be another priority.

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.

«The Government needs to get a grip and sort out the teacher shortage crisis, school places crisis and the increase in child mental health issues all of which are more important than reorganising who runs schools.

Councils were already taking extraordinary measures to deal with the school places crisis, it said.