Sentences with phrase «school places shortages»

There is indeed an upcoming secondary school places shortages that will be more difficult to deal with than the primary crisis.

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».

«Free Schools will not and never have addressed the issue of school place shortages.

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.

The secondary school places shortage is just a few months a way in a handful of local authorities.

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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 plSchools, 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 plschools 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».

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«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.