2,830 source-backed education facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 19 of 29.
“A waste of a million bricks”
“£75m building”
“Inverness College is to relocate to a new £75m building at a proposed campus.”
“The first phase of the education and research campus was given conditional approval by Highland councillors last month.”
“A school in Dorset says it has disciplined three boys after they played a 'racist' video in class which caused offence to a South Korean pupil.”
“More than 160 parents have signed a letter calling for a vote on the future of the headteacher of a Reading school.”
“The letter, which has been signed by 169 parents in two days, said:”
“other parents, whose children are among the 432 pupils, have supported Mrs Singh.”
“Mrs Singh started the role last September.”
“A £6.5m drive to help hundreds of school and college leavers find jobs has been launched in Scotland.”
“It will provide 800 vocational training courses for 16 and 17-year-olds and 60 entrepreneurial training opportunities to help youngsters set up in business.”
“And the package will also create 1,000 volunteering places, 750 graduate placements and an employers' helpline.”
“He told the Scottish Parliament the recession had encouraged more people than normal to stay on in education, meaning 3,000 more youngsters leaving school or college this year.”
“Mr Brown said the new package of measures was "specifically designed to deal with the pressure created by this summer's leavers".”
“The university charges graduates' guests £15 each to attend the event hosted by its chancellor, X-Men and Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart.”
“Professor Thornton said the university decided in 2002 to make its graduation ceremony 'an impressive event'. The charges were introduced that year.”
“However, about 500 students have signed a petition calling or the charge to be scrapped.”
“There are other universities that do not charge for graduation ceremonies such as Bradford, Reading, Newcastle and Liverpool.”
“Leonard Blavatnik, 53, whose fortune is estimated at £3bn, is giving the project £75m.”
“A Russian-born businessman is to help fund a new £100m School of Government at Oxford University.”
“The university describes Mr Blavatnik's donation, which may rise to £100m, as 'one of the most generous' gifts in their 900-year history.”
“It is hoped more than 40 academic posts and a new building will be created on the university's new Radcliffe Observatory Quarter.”
“The university describes Mr Blavatnik's donation [...] as 'one of the most generous' gifts in their 900-year history.”
“University administrators hope the new school will open in 2012, and offer a one-year Master's degree.”
“Other casualties include the Find Your Talent scheme that sought to offer children and young people five hours of culture a week both in and out of school.”
“The scheme, launched last year, had made half a million free tickets available to people under the age of 26.”
“Crossroads Primary near Kilmarnock, which has 52 pupils.”
“500 and odd schools that are smaller than that in Scotland”
“The Catholic Education Service has written to 2,000 Catholic schools, advising 'great caution' on academies.”
“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.”
