Sentences with phrase «with more pupils»

So they've argued that either the funnel gets narrower, with more pupils competing for the same number of grammar places, or more capacity needs to be created.

County councils, often with more pupils than urban authorities, also face big increases - Lancashire is forecasting demand to rise by 13,000, Hampshire by 11,000 and Kent is expecting to need places for more than 9,000 extra pupils.

Largely, mental health issues are on the rise with almost seven - in - ten (68 %) respondents saying they believe their school or college is having to deal with more pupil mental health issues than five years ago, and a third (34 %) saying they are dealing with significantly more than one year ago.

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

In nursery, primary and secondary schools teachers are more delighted with a pupil's good «social skills» («getting along») than with the high marks of a solitary child.

With a consistency rare in educational research, studies have found that pupils in and graduates of religious schools are, if anything, more tolerant of racial and religious differences than are those educated in public schools.

So, Miller has been preaching attitude and aggression to his star pupil, who is more teddy than grizzly bear with friends, classmates and teammates.

Each year hundreds of pupils — rich, white middle - aged men, mostly — make a pilgrimage there to spend $ 500 for an hour with the master and much more at the Rio craps tables, downtown.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

Where individual pupils require additional support that costs more than # 6,000, the excess should be met by top - up funding associated with the individual pupil.

They can also be socio - economically selective, with richer parents more likely to manipulate the system to get their pupils into the better schools in their area — in other words, going to church when they otherwise wouldn't.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

Yet, more crucially, changes are moving so quickly because they are finding some traction with the people on the ground to whom it really matters — pupils, parents and even teachers.

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

«Increased freedoms for schools have also resulted in heightened concerns about widening racial disparities affecting BME pupils, with black Caribbean pupils being three times more likely to be excluded from schools comparted to white pupils.

«With the savage cuts that will undoubtedly be announced by the Chancellor in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review, the introduction of the pupil premium will represent nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Democrats who originally advocated this policy.

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

Schools with no religious character have on average 0.8 percentage points more «Asian» pupils than would be expected for schools located in their areas.

But the government was ridiculed last night for plans to reward good pupil behaviour with gifts and for suggesting to teachers that they should praise pupils five times more than they criticise them.

He suggested that instead of promoting the EBac, the Government should «look at how the whole assessment system could be transformed, with more teacher and ongoing assessment, a greater range and type of subjects on offer to inspire pupils and parity between the vocational and the academic.»

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

«Employers who fail to disclose safety information leave themselves vulnerable to legal challenge and industrial action, but more importantly they are behaving recklessly with the health and wellbeing of staff and other pupils and this simply can not be justified.»

He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.

I was listening now to Milburn about getting more pupils into better jobs like doctors lawyers, he said a great idea is the Army Cadets, not the one the dirty little poor join, but the army officer cadet force, training officers for the future, once labour says anything about helping ordinary people they ruin it by looking toward the USA new labour has a serious problem with the UK being the UK it should be the USA.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

He noted that without provocation, they pushed the food to the ground, doused the fire with water and warned the caterers not to prepare food for the pupils saying that their failure to comply with the warning will attract more attacks.

It is thought that more than 3,000 schools in England and Wales will be closed and a further 2,000 partially shut, with a million pupils affected.

3.51 pm: The Lib Dems have voted in favour of replacing the pupil premium with a beefed - up version called education credit, which would be more generous and would cover a wider group of disadvantaged children.

Interestingly, the same applied to the chimpanzees: their pupils, too, dilated more slowly when they viewed a chimp with constricting pupils.

But younger pupils — who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age — used a more complex series of signs.

Overall, however, pupils were more strongly associated with hunting behaviour than nocturnal activity.

A statistical comparison of facial traits of European Americans and African Americans — forehead - chin distance, ear height, nose width and distance between pupils, for example — with other body traits — forearm length, height at waist, etc. — showed that facial traits are, on average, more varied than the others.

The pupil's vertical movement is more subtle, although a camera with higher resolution may be able to detect it, says Bulling.

While, from 1975 onwards, his first Western pupils David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff were still confronted with three practice series which became progressively more difficult, he, in his last years before his death in 2009, taught six progressively more difficult practice series.

A «sex single» with Kim Basinger and liaisons with Madonna, Carmen Electra, Marvin Gaye's daughter and many more: Prince's extraordinary dating history Brigitte Macron and her family were denounced when she began dating her teenage pupil Emmanuel, a new biography has claimed.

11 - year - olds «struggling in the three - Rs» More than 135,000 pupils left primary school this summer with a poor grasp of the three - Rs, despite a

Disappointment is more obvious when her prized former - pupil Fabien (Roman Kolinka) is unable to competently debate his radical views with her... choosing instead a condescending, brusque approach designed to shut her down.

While one key scene attempts dark comedy with mixed results, thereâ $ ™ s more jaunty wit in the scenes with pupil Kenny (Nicholas Hoult, dripping sexuality as heâ $ ™ s caught in the cameraâ $ ™ s lustful gaze).

A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil - teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising teacher pay.

Sarah Shergill also won a grant of # 3,280 for her «Making Maths Heroes» programme to help encourage pupils with a fear of making mistakes in maths, to be more courageous risk - takers through innovative maths teaching.

What's more, in the 1995 - 96 school year, the tiny, 260 - student Sausalito district that includes the school spent $ 12,100 per student, compared with $ 4,977 per pupil statewide.

It is also important for the school to help pupils become more risk aware as opposed to risk averse and equip the citizens of tomorrow with the skills and knowledge they need to keep themselves (and others) safe.

In the past, asking parents to help schools provide the pupils with more resources has been an uncomfortable area for many teachers and governors.

Yet among the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) with charter laws, only 17 provide some kind of direct facilities aid, either capital grants or per - pupil funding, and just three of those provide annual per - pupil capital funding of more than $ 1,000.

They will provide teachers with on - site help and advice, ensuring pupils experiencing difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, and compulsive self - harm or conduct disorders receive early help in schools from suitably trained staff, preventing more serious problems occurring later in life.

Incidents of physical attacks were far more prevalent in primary schools with 48 per cent of staff reporting pupils being physically aggressive, compared with 20 per cent working at secondary level.

The lesson allows pupils to master the skill of solving equations with an unknown on both sides but then allows the more able to tackle questions with brackets and worded problems.

Today's results reinforce this success, with teachers and pupils responding well to the new more rigorous curriculum introduced by this government.

Our teachers need to feel more comfortable with tablets and phones, how to use them to engage pupils and, as such, we need to be able to demonstrate how learning takes place outside of the classroom as well as inside it.

However, with an expected extra 880,000 pupil places needed by 2023, more localised support is needed to meet and prepare for this growing demand.»