Sentences with phrase «shortage of places»

Why a third of free schools are being set up in areas with no severe shortages of places?

It warned that whoever formed the next government after the general election would have to tackle an escalating shortage of places.

Applicants previously had to demonstrate that there was a need for their new school, caused either by a general shortage of places or because of low standards in existing schools in an area.

«There's a severe shortage of places in Camden, especially in this part of the borough,» Penny Roberts explains.

While this is certainly an issue across the country, schools are facing particularly critical shortages of places across London, the South East and the large cities of Manchester and Birmingham.

There's an undeniable shortage of places where people can experience VR.

Kingsmead primary school in Enfield, proposed by Kingsmead secondary school, will address a local shortage of places.

This is despite an overall shortage of places in Worcestershire, with four out of five secondary schools said to be over-subscribed for the coming year.

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to see Santa, there's no shortage of places to do so in Boston and beyond.

Women are most likely to stop nursing when they return to work because of inflexible work schedules or a shortage of places to pump and store milk, Ingersoll said.

There were more deaths in custody last year than ever before, staffing levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.

The free school programme will be effectively abolished, and new places only funded where there are shortages of places.

Those areas with a shortage of places but with no free schools receive extra basic need funding to make up for it.

Free schools are subject to greater scrutiny than council - run schools, they are overwhelmingly located in areas with a shortage of places, and construction costs are 45 % lower than the previous school building programmes.

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There's no shortage of places to publish original research papers about pathogens and immunity, but a new peer - reviewed journal on those topics has a unique author - friendly mandate: to reduce the submission process to a matter of minutes, and initial reviews to just a few days.

Though SF has no shortage of places to grab a good glass of vino, this hip, sultry, somewhat under - the - radar downtown bar may be the strictest of all about their selection.

There's really no shortage of places.

When it comes to cheap clothes, there's no shortage of places to shop these days.

The city no longer feels swampy, the trees have started to change colors and there's no shortage of places to soak up the crisp air.

It's founder, a Florida native, opened the store to provide trendy girls with a place to buy edgy, fashion - forward clothing — after realizing there was a shortage of places to shop for contemporary brands like Joie, J Brand, Hudson and Parker New York and dozens of smaller lines like Goddis Knitwear, which were discovered through her innate sense of style and great taste.

It has no shortage of places to go with its concept; it simply chooses not to.

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.

However, the scheme opened with a shortage of places and some 38,000 eligible children did not take up a placement.

In response, the EFA are being more proactive, being ready to purchase sites for development in areas where there is a shortage of places.

Bousted added: «And the government persists in wasting money by allowing free schools to open in areas where there is no shortage of places.»

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».

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.

An independent school in Bristol applies to open a free school in the south of the city, which it says will meet a shortage of places.

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.

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.

As well as the shortage of places in some areas, there are still large numbers of unfilled places elsewhere - either because of demographic changes or because parents are not sending their children to unpopular schools.

In autumn 2016, the LGA says there will be a shortage of places for pupils wanting to start primary school in two in five authorities.

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 too long.

London Councils, which represents the city's 32 boroughs, said the shortage of places is an issue across the capital.

In fact we are spending three times as much on addressing the shortage of places across the entire school system as we are investing in free schools - 28 % of the Department's capital budget compared to just 8 %.»

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt blamed the Conservatives for spending «hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on a few free schools in areas where there are no shortages of places».

It is also relaxing building regulations so that new schools can occupy a smaller space - secondary schools by 15 % and primary schools by 5 % - but the DfE says this has nothing to do with the shortage of places.

But the scheme opened with a shortage of places and some 38,000 eligible children did not take up a placement.

Parents are worrying that a shortage of places is creating «supersize» primary schools, according to the Netmums website.

Mr Gove replied that standards were improving as a result of free schools being set up and said that there was no longer a shortage of places across England.

The government says free schools will meet parental demand in areas where there is a shortage of places and help drive up standards by providing competition.

The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25 % or above in the primary school population.

Free schools can be set up by parents, teachers, charities, businesses, cultural and sporting bodies, community groups, academy trusts and 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.

New schools, he added, should only be opened in areas where there was a shortage of places, where «properly qualified» staff could be recruited and where institutions were financially accountable.

Damian Hinds, the education secretary, pledged to lift the cap — which prevents free schools in areas with a shortage of places from admitting more than 50 per cent of pupils on the basis of faith — in an interview with The Sunday Times last week.