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“About one third of schools in England are faith schools and most of those are Christian.”
“At the moment, Catholic schools receive 90% of their funding from the state and 10% from church funds.”
“Schools opting for academy status will receive a budget uplift of about 10% - money normally kept back by local authorities to provide special services such as help for children with special educational needs, admissions and provision for …”
“Mr Gove has said 1,700 schools have so far expressed an interest in becoming an academy.”
“It is expected to become law before MPs break for the summer, the idea being that some top schools could become academies in the autumn.”
“70% of the outstanding secondary schools in the country and a significant cohort of outstanding primaries.”
“More than 1,772 schools had enquired about academy freedoms, he said.”
“These included 870 outstanding schools - 405 secondary schools and more than 400 outstanding primaries.”
“There are there roughly 700 secondary schools in England which have been rated outstanding by schools inspectors Ofsted.”
“Mr Gove wrote to head teachers in every primary, secondary and special school in England last month inviting them to apply for academy status.”
“That's 70% of the outstanding secondary schools in the country and a significant cohort of outstanding primaries.”
“Since I issued my invitation to schools three weeks ago, I have been overwhelmed by the response.”
“Initiative to identify, assist and retain 100 of the best research students at UK universities.”
“Half of the people living here are functionally illiterate.”
“The programme called Personal Best is training people to be volunteer staff during the Olympic games in 2012, with the aim of developing skills that will be useful in getting paid work.”
“The comments came in a new booklet published by the British Academy called Past, Present and Future, looking at the contributions humanities and social sciences have made to national and international issues.”
“not able to build schools to house 15,000 new pupils”
“Vicky Tuck says she has been made to feel as if she is involved in something "slightly immoral".”
“Higher education cuts have prompted business leaders to write to the Daily Telegraph urging caution about cuts in science, innovation and knowledge. The bosses of Shell and GlaxoSmithKline are among those to warn Britain cannot be allowed …”
“There is no official figure for how many UK children are home schooled, but is estimated to be around 50,000.”
“For its report, entitled Local authorities and home education, Ofsted spoke to 120 parents and 130 children from 15 local authority areas between September and December last year.”
“Just over half the parents surveyed were home educating because they were frustrated by experiences they and their children had had while at school.”
“Bullying was a factor for around a third of parents and over a quarter of the 130 children whose parents spoke to inspectors had a statement of special educational needs.”
“Researchers at the two-day seminar at Kent University will present fresh analysis of the decision to advise pregnant women to avoid any alcohol.”
“All schools in Cardiff and most in Newport will have an inset day on Friday, 1 October.”
“Cardiff council has confirmed all its schools will take an inset day, giving around 50,000 pupils a day off.”
“There was a boys' school with 400 students, a girls' high school with 350 students and a hospital which addressed the needs of the entire area in question.”
“It costs nearly £10m a year to run and it's the kind of public funding expected to come under scrutiny in the future.”
“Some 600 people working in health, education, the police, social services and the voluntary sector have had awareness training in the last three years.”
“The council said it had secured £7.4m in government funding to add temporary classrooms to schools in the borough before September 2011.”
“The temporary classrooms will provide an additional 630 primary school places needed for 2011.”
“The council has earmarked £1m to carry out a costing and feasibility study for the town hall project, which could provide a further 630 places.”
“If converted, the town hall could provide 630 school places”
“The council's cabinet approved an action plan which aims to increase school places between 2011 and 2013.”
“The action plan said there had been an "unprecedented increase" in demand for school places since 2009.”
“The university wants the job cuts to help reduce its costs by £5m a year and avoid a budget deficit over the next two to three years.”
“The council now provides a total of 81 clubs, focussing on areas of deprivation.”
“In 2008 the local authority warned that breakfast club services could suffer if it was forced to foot the bill for free school meals for all five to seven-year-olds.”
“Each morning under the banner of 'Hungry for Breakfast', over 2,700 breakfasts are served to pupils across North Lanarkshire.”
“Breakfast clubs were started in North Lanarkshire in 2000”
“Central Technology College and Bishop's College in Gloucester will shut at the end of this academic year, to be replaced by an academy.”
“the school would be closed at the end of the 2011 academic year.”
“government report in October last year suggested three schools should be closed.”
“We were keen to enhance the education centre to provide a new classroom and energy efficiency [improvements], but that's one of the projects we've had to put on hold.”
“Six secondary schools in the county are due to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future scheme.”
“rebuilding or refurbishment of six schools”
“providing employment for 200 young people aged between 18 and 24 in March to work on six-month environmental projects”
“Six secondary schools in the county are due to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future scheme”
“11% of schools checked since last September were rated outstanding”
“9% were not up to scratch”
“In the year 2006-07, 14% of those checked were outstanding and 6% were "inadequate"”
“of 3,990 school inspections carried out from September 2009 to March 2010, the proportion of schools judged to be outstanding was 11%”
“when 9% were rated outstanding”
“Five per cent were given "notice to improve" and four per cent were put in "special measures"”
“A total of 42% were judged to be good and 38% satisfactory”
“more than a quarter (28%) had improved their grade, Ofsted said, including 40% of schools previously graded satisfactory”
“Nearly half (48%) of the schools inspected kept the same grade as their previous inspection, while nearly a quarter (24%) went down”
“11% of schools considered to be serving areas of high deprivation have been graded outstanding in the last term, matching the overall national figure for schools”
“the fact that there are three per cent fewer schools rated as outstanding does not mean school standards have fallen”
“Figures released by Ofsted show that 11% of schools checked since last September were rated outstanding, while 9% were not up to scratch.”
“In the year 2006-07, 14% of those checked were outstanding and 6% were "inadequate".”
“The new figures show that of 3,990 school inspections carried out from September 2009 to March 2010, the proportion of schools judged to be outstanding was 11%.”
“This is a slight improvement on the autumn term inspections alone, when 9% were rated outstanding.”
“Five per cent were given "notice to improve" and four per cent were put in "special measures".”
“A total of 42% were judged to be good and 38% satisfactory.”
“With almost half of schools inspected since September judged as only satisfactory or inadequate, it's clear there is urgent need for real reform.”
“Of those schools checked since September, more than a quarter (28%) had improved their grade, Ofsted said”
“including 40% of schools previously graded satisfactory.”
“Nearly half (48%) of the schools inspected kept the same grade as their previous inspection”
“while nearly a quarter (24%) went down.”
“It is particularly pleasing to see that 11% of schools considered to be serving areas of high deprivation have been graded outstanding in the last term, matching the overall national figure for schools.”
“The fact that there are three per cent fewer schools rated as outstanding does not mean school standards have fallen”
“The figures clearly show that less than half the Academies inspected since September have themselves been judged to be outstanding or good.”
“An eight-year-old boy from Essex was left behind on a school trip”
“The school apologised to his mother”
“Geraint Lloyd Jones, 29, received a police caution after the incident at Ysgol Y Creuddyn secondary school, near Llandudno, Conwy in February 2008.”
“Mr Williams, who also taught technology at the school, described how he discovered the 12" (30cm) 'bomb' when he placed his hand in the bag to retrieve a book for a pupil during a lesson.”
“a three-hour commute”
“When they stop the buses in 2015, my kids will face a journey that will involve getting three buses, taking over an hour and a half every morning and evening.”
“A school for children between three and 19 could be built in Hertfordshire to meet demand for places and "drive up standards", a council has announced.”
“The new school could open on the Francis Bacon site by September 2011.”
“It is anticipated that a formal consultation will begin in the autumn term, the council added.”
“We have to think we can get the £2m by the end of term on 29 June.”
“I received a call from the parent of a former pupil who pledged £10,000 because she said the school must not close.”
“some parents with, for example, three children, had paid for next year's fees in advance in order to gain a discount and were now worried they had lost up to £30,000.”
“It is understood the school is at least £2m in debt as a result of falling pupil numbers.”
“The business plan proposes some "very radical surgery" including cutting staff, raising school fees and selling the nursery building.”
“It was announced last week that the school would close at the end of term on 29 June.”
“St Margaret's Parent and Friends Association, which was set up to raise money for extra items at the school, is now being used to fundraise to save the 120-year-old institution.”
“At Monday night's meeting, which lasted about 90 minutes, four liquidators were present, including Blair Nimmo, and it was as amicable as it could be.”
“We had a very helpful meeting with the consortium last night (Monday). We provided them with further information and an explanation of the process. As we understand it they have gone off to consider their position with a view to seeing if …”
“There were 18 students and two teachers on the trip.”
“Pupil numbers have fallen from almost 950 in 2004 to around 600.”
“The school was placed in special measures in April after an inspection found it was performing "significantly less well" in English, maths and science compared to its counterparts.”
“The head teacher and deputy head teacher retired at Easter.”
“There are significant and growing surplus capacity within the secondary sector which makes the current organisation unsustainable in the medium term.”
“A decision is expected later in the year.”
“Ceredigion council's cabinet backed the plans at a meeting, and a report will go before the full council on 30 June.”
“The super-school is designed to educate children from three to 19.”
“A proposal to replace seven schools in the Tregaron area with an all-through school, has been deferred until 6 July.”
