Sentences with phrase «school places for»

Latest example: The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story last week about the lack of after - school places for kids in OSHS (Out of School Hours Services).

There are already not enough law school places for the students who want to become lawyers.

Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, council leaders have warned.

«This will help us secure new free school sites to help deliver more good and outstanding school places for families.»

Councils, which are responsible for finding school places for unaccompanied refugees, have called for further clarity on how much additional funding will be provided to help schools to take the children in.

Public displays of relief and glee from parents who have secured desirable school places for their children is not de rigeur.

With 29 % of free schools inspected rated «outstanding» by Ofsted - LocatED will play a vital role in helping us create thousands more good and outstanding school places for future generations of children.

Barton Court Academy Trust Free School — proposed by the Ofsted - outstanding Barton Court Grammar School, a new non-selective free school providing 1,050 school places for 11 - to 19 - year - olds in Canterbury

Two London local authorities have amended the sibling priority rule from 2016, taking away the automatic entitlement to school places for a number of families.

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has called grammar schools «a vanity project» and she told the Today programme they do not create school places for local children who need them.

Isle of Wight council said the arrangement gives parents of year 6 pupils time to make an «informed decision» about their children's secondary school places for September 2018, as admissions close at the end of October.

The plans, announced by the Department for Education, will mean that parents looking at local secondary school places for the following autumn will have the most up - to - date exam results, at least in provisional form.

But this latest admissions proposal may prove controversial if wealthier parents struggle to get school places for their children.

They provide school places for a number of students who can not access mainstream school due to their medical conditions.

The village I lived in a few years ago had 1,000 new houses built and all sold to young couples yet the baby boom surprised them and they had only 30 school places for 100 children the summer before they were due to start school.

Twenty four families have lost their school places for the 2016/17 session after being caught giving false statements to get their children into Edinburgh schools.

«I know that probably we'll end up finding school places for all the children if they walk away, and certainly the transport for the schools... if it does go wrong.»

«I have not been informed about the reasons behind this decision but it seems that the choice of school places for my constituents in the north of Warrington is being reduced yet again,» she told Schools Week.

Yet Britain is facing the worst shortage of school places for decades.

«The Government needs to focus on the key priority of providing enough school places for children, with enough teachers qualified to teach them.

Local authorities want powers to create new schools to be returned to councils, as it is they who are legally responsible for ensuring there are school places for all local children.

She said: «I've been through the process of applying for primary school places for my own children and I know the anguish that parents go through when there just are not enough primary school places, so for us it's just a wonderful way to meet a community need».

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our proposals are about creating more choice, with more good school places for more parents in more parts of the country.

Two in five council areas in England will not have enough primary school places for the number of children by September 2016, say council leaders.

«We are facing the worst shortage of school places for decades.

«[Free schools] are creating more good school places for our children.

More than half a million families in England find out on Tuesday about their children's secondary school places for this autumn.

The rebuilding of Francis Combe Academy was to provide school places for 1350 pupils, which involved 80 % new - build and 20 % refurbishment.

In the very poorest of African countries, simply funding more school places for boys or girls may end up boosting equality as girls may stop having to compete with boys for the few available spaces.

This funding will transform the condition of school buildings and help our best schools to expand, creating more good school places for families and raising standards for pupils.

The new schools will create more than 1,100 high - quality school places for children with multiple learning needs, including children with autism and mental health needs.

He added that «with 29 per cent of free schools inspected rated «outstanding» by Ofsted - LocatED will play a vital role in helping us create thousands more good and outstanding school places for future generations of children».

Sunderland City Council has set out specifications for 96 additional autism school places for those aged between five and 16.

In addition, a further 20 local authority areas have been approved to create a new special school through the free school process, creating 1,700 school places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.

Nash added: «With 29 per cent of free schools inspected rated «outstanding» by Ofsted - LocatED will play a vital role in helping us create thousands more good and outstanding school places for future generations of children.»

Speaking on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, May said that the plans were about «ensuring we have good school places for every child» and not about «going back to the system of binary education from the 1950s».

But there are concerns from councils about whether they can cope with the influx, and are struggling to find school places for some of the kids.

Kent County Council has the largest education department of any local council in Britain, [66] providing school places for over 289,000 pupils.

If it takes 6/7 years in total to deliver enough school places for children that needed them 4 years beforehand, then there will be a predicatable failure to cope with a sudden influx of thousands of young children.

Akaal Primary School has no specific catchment area and meets the need for more primary school places for areas including Normanton, Pear Tree, Heatherton and Chellaston.

Unless you haven't noticed, parents who choose to send their children to private schools are already paying taxes for state school places for their children, taxes they don't get back for places they don't use.

In a debate in the Scottish parliament, he insisted that action needed to be taken to secure medical school places for Scottish students, who were more likely to stay in the country to practice than their English colleagues.

Co-sponsored by JOFF and Food Day, the initiative aims to make schools the place for children to learn about food, where it comes from and how it affects their bodies.

so there's not just a school place for every child, but a good school place for every child.

Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Lord Nash, commented: «The 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can access a good school place for their children.

Schools systems minister Lord Nash said: «Part of the government's plan for Britain is building a fairer society, with a good school place for every child.

A school place for every child David Williams, Cabinet Member for Education, said: «As our population continues to grow, we must ensure there is a school place for every child that needs one.

This is the time to seize the opportunity to make a difference and be part of the system working towards offering a good school place for every child.

The report reads: «Without sufficient funding there is a very real risk in London of not being able to secure a school place for every child, particularly given the complex and costly secondary school place expansions needed.»