Sentences with phrase «state school pupils»

The figures show a large drop from the 71 per cent of state school pupils who entered into higher education in 2009 - 10.

The big question raised is whether there are state school pupils who are not getting their exam papers checked, who might otherwise have had their grades improved.

Just one in ten state school pupils receive regular careers advice, compared to around half of independent school students.

150 Year 12 state school pupils attend the course.

Or sending their pupils to work with state school pupils?

The government should develop an effective national programme for highly able state school pupils.

Thousands of state school pupils are failing to apply to the most selective universities despite having the necessary grades.

Private tuition for state school pupils is booming, particularly among wealthier families and in London, suggests a poll of 11 - to 16 - year olds.

The shadow education secretary said private educators should be sharing their expertise to help state school pupils get into top universities, and should set up joint school programmes such as combined extra-curricular activities, if they wanted to keep receiving government subsidies in future.

Educational charity the Sutton Trust revealed research today that indicates increasing numbers state school pupils are planning to go to university in the next decade.

Instead of looking for ways to restrict private school pupils, what might actually help is looking for ways to improve state schools, increasing the culture of achievement and making sure that good state school pupils get the encouragement and support they need to apply for university and good universities.

Today shadow education secretary David Willetts welcomed Mr Blair's commitment to the IB but said he «should have been bolder» and also offered state school pupils the chance to study the international GCSE (IGCSE).

«Gordon Brown may want to match the funding of public schools, but he still keeps denying state school pupils the right to study the subjects and to sit the exams that they value.

The rise of academies The popularity of academies among policy makers means that around 65 per cent of state funded secondaries and 18 per cent of state - funded primaries are operating as academies, meaning that roughly 66 per cent of state school pupils aged 11 to 16 years and 20 per cent of pupils aged five to 11 years are currently being taught in academies.

According to the latest official statistics, the policy has seen a drop in the number of state school pupils taking authorised holidays in «exceptional circumstances».

The SMCPC also raised the issue in its recent annual report, which named and shamed individual Oxbridge colleges for their failure to increase the number of state school pupils studying at their establishments.

However, critics have calculated that if the country's 4.62 million primary state school pupils were fed a free breakfast on this budget for 190 school days each year, each meal would have to cost no more than 6.8 p.

Speaking to the Guardian, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, has said that grammars lead to social selection and warned that in England's current 163 selective state schools pupils were four or five times more likely to come from independent prep schools than from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

As such, this year will run in the same way as in previous years, supporting state schools pupils to reach their potential in their SATs examinations, rather than highlighting Level 6 as the «holy grail» to aim for.

More recently, Harrow's focus on super-curricular engagement spawned the idea of producing and circulating a termly calendar of academic events to which local state school pupils could be invited, to assist all pupils concerned with building evidence of super-curricular engagement for subsequent applications.

The scheme at Alleyn's is a Maths extension scheme, designed to boost the Maths provision for gifted state school pupils who show aptitude for the subject.

State school pupils do not sit the IGCSE currently because although they have been approved by Ofqual, the government has not approved them for state school funding.

Major new research by HEFCE, the funding body for universities in England, into who does best in higher education suggests state school pupils outperform independent school pupils; girls outperform boys and white pupils do better than those from other ethnic groups.

Since the EBacc was introduced, the percentage of state school pupils entered for at least one GCSE in an arts subject has increased from 46 per cent to 50 per cent.

He's been a head teacher bristling with ambition for state school pupils to have the same chance as those in private schools.

The Brilliant Club trains PhD researchers to deliver courses based on their own research to small groups of state school pupils.

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

It suggests that independent schools could potentially help co-sponsor new state - funded schools, as well as facilitate a further expansion of the teaching, coaching, university and careers advice, educational events and facilities already provided to an estimated 160,000 state school pupils.

The study was commissioned by the Independent Schools Council and aimed to analyse the difference in attainment between private and state school pupils.

They have also warned that 200,000 state school pupils could also have been affected.

As reported by Tes, three - quarters of independent school pupils said they felt more academically prepared to go to university, compared with 53 per cent of state school pupils.

He said: «The most important thing to understand is that overall, independently educated pupils enter university with better qualifications and do better than state school pupils.

220 state school pupils will have the opportunity to learn to code through the programmes, which are designed to widen access to the tech sector for disadvantaged pupils.

Our pupils will not take part in the Standardised Assessment tests (SATs) that state school pupils are required to take aged 7 and 11, and have to do so for over a decade.

At secondary, # 6,200 is spent on each state school pupil a year, while in a private school that figure is # 15,000 for a day pupil, and # 30,000 for a boarder.

«By removing the red tape, state school pupils will have the opportunity to leave school with the same set of qualifications as their peers from the top private schools - allowing them to better compete for university places and for the best jobs.»

Two London local authorities sent the highest proportion of state school pupils to university.