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“it would improve choices for students, safeguard specialist learning, enhance employability and improve university access”
“Lutterworth has about 2,000 students aged between 14 and 18, with a budget of more than £10m a year.”
“There are currently 203 academies in England, compared with about 3,500 secondary schools.”
“since local authorities began delegating budget control to schools 20 years ago.”
“The way schools are run has changed considerably in the past 20 years.”
“And it turned out that just by changing contractors, he was able to save an impressive £25,000 a year.”
“"It might not sound a lot in the scheme of things," he says. "But 25 grand is about the salary of a newly qualified teacher."”
“However, Malcolm Trobe, policy director at the Association of School and College Leaders, an organisation which has expressed concern at too many schools becoming academies, says the benefits are unlikely to be more than a 5% budget increa…”
“"New learning is one of the best recipes for recovery."”
“However, this does not change the fact that thousands of staff are facing the sack and that thousands of students will miss out on a college and university place.”
“The existing multiple choice format will now feature five more detailed case studies.”
“This change is to be brought in on 19 July.”
“In the practical test, the number of mandatory manoeuvres will be cut from two to one to allow more time for the independent driving section.”
“This change, which will mean there is no increase in the time the test takes, is to be introduced some time next year.”
“Our contingency plans have gone well and 96 pupils from a school roll of 124 are taking their lessons at Coatbridge High School today.”
“The council said it had 8,500 surplus primary places across North Lanarkshire, equivalent to 40 average-sized schools.”
“The circle was built to honour four academics from Glasgow University”
“The local authority announced in March that the primary school, which is 30% below full capacity, would close this year.”
“The council added that it had 8,500 surplus primary places across North Lanarkshire, equivalent to 40 average-sized schools.”
“More than 1,000 schools in England have shown interest in becoming an academy, says the education secretary.”
“1,114 schools have responded to his letter last week inviting applications for independent status.”
“626 schools rated as "outstanding", who will be fast-tracked to have academy status by this autumn.”
“273 outstanding primary schools set to acquire academy status.”
“52 special schools graded as outstanding and wanting to become academies.”
“which will quadruple the existing number”
“626 schools rated as "outstanding", who will be fast‑tracked to have academy status by this autumn.”
“Now this new intake of academies, which will quadruple the existing number, will be the highest achievers.”
“The GTCS survey found 25.5% of teachers had secured full-time permanent work, with 4.5% on part-time contracts.”
“In March, 29% had secured temporary posts, compared with 22% five months earlier and 30% the previous year.”
“The rate of those who became supply teachers was 26% in the last two periods surveyed and 19% a year earlier.”
“The number of new teachers gaining a permanent post has fallen dramatically in the last year, from 39.5% last year to just 30% this year.”
“The Scottish government reduced the intake of students for one-year postgraduate diploma courses by 578 last year.”
“According to government figures, the number of advertised teaching vacancies was down to 354 in February this year from 372 at the same time 12 months ago.”
“Of those, 95 posts had been vacant for more than three months This was down from 115 vacant posts in 2009.”
“More than 60,000 students every year visit the south coast to study English at language schools.”
“study of three decades of education initiatives”
“What we found is that the difference between teachers in the bottom 5% and the teachers in the top 5% was something like one grade, a GCSE grade per pupil.”
“If you took all these people out, stopped them teaching the children and just replaced them even with just average teachers, that would be something like half a grade per pupil.”
“So again, if you do eight GCSEs, that would be an extra four grades for them, that they would get, which could be the difference between getting a job and not getting a job, the difference between going to university and not going to unive…”
“Using Freedom of Information legislation, we discovered that across Scotland, only 61 teachers in the past five years had been put through the process.”
“The current working population of teachers in Scotland is 57,000.”
“If that's the only number of people who are incompetent, it speaks remarkably well of the high proportion of teachers who do a splendid job day in and day out.”
“Anybody in the GTC process should be suspended from a further job until that process is through.”
“I will make sure that is what the GTC is trying to do and if they don't have the powers to do it I will look into the ways they can get powers.”
“She was sacked by Perth and Kinross Council over concerns about her teaching abilities in 2006.”
“However, she was hired by Stirling Council eight weeks later and worked for the local authority until she was eventually struck off following a GTC investigation in 2008.”
“At present, the GTC can suspend a teacher going through a competency hearing. However, the power is discretionary and has never been used.”
“There are many incidents where teachers have complaints of various kinds made against them which turn out not to be sustained, or upheld.”
“You can see BBC Scotland's investigation - Teachers: Could Do Better on BBC One Scotland at 2235 BST on Wednesday.”
“Mr Evans had represented Wales in the high jump and won a sports scholarship to Deeside College.”
“About 200 supporters of Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna in Canton, including pupils, took part.”
“I think if everybody realised all this money is being wasted on something like 8,000 empty spaces in our schools”
“launched by Santiago's Catholic University”
“Six-year-old Patricio”
“Treganna currently shares a site with Radnor Primary, but parents say Treganna is heavily oversubscribed and has more than 200 pupils in a space designed for 167.”
“It said Mr Jones's decision "gives no hope and no solutions to parents and pupils at Treganna and Tan-yr-Eos who have simply no idea what will happen to their children and their younger siblings in the coming years. As the first minister c…”
“"We recognise that any solution must ensure decent conditions and provision for children educated through both the medium of Welsh and English in the area. "It is important that overcrowding in any schools in the locale should not happen …”
“Cardiff council had proposed closing Lansdowne Primary and transferring pupils there to nearby schools, and moving Ysgol Treganna to the vacated building as part of a plan to cut surplus English-language places.”
“there had been more than 15 strikes across the sectors since March.”
“she had just heard about 100 job losses at Glasgow University.”
“the new government is cutting colleges and university budgets by £1.5bn, while offering £8bn in tax giveaways to business.”
“The day Congress began I counted more than 100 institutions making cuts - slashing courses; sacking staff; usually both,”
“Three colleges in the West Midlands are balloting on strike action, as is England's biggest college, Manchester College”
“We are in talks with the higher education employers and have been for the last two years requesting and negotiating for a job security agreement.”
“And a number of colleges and other institutions were waiting for strike ballots to come back. 'You can't carry on with that, without a backlash,' Ms Hunt warned. She said she had just heard about 100 job losses at Glasgow University. And t…”
“She said she had just heard about 100 job losses at Glasgow University.”
“'The day Congress began I counted more than 100 institutions making cuts - slashing courses; sacking staff; usually both,' says Ms Hunt.”
“In her speech to congress on Tuesday, she will claim that the new government is cutting colleges and university budgets by £1.5bn, while offering £8bn in tax giveaways to business.”
“Three colleges in the West Midlands are balloting on strike action, as is England's biggest college, Manchester College.”
“The latest plan incorporates four new buildings”
“The plans involve three state-of-the art, environmentally sustainable buildings for University Park and another at the Sutton Bonington campus.”
“University Park is to get a new Mathematics Building, an Engineering and Science Learning Centre and a Humanities Building.”
“And a new Biosciences/School of Veterinary Medicine & Science building will go up near the existing Vet School at Sutton Bonington.”
“It is with regret that the International Academy of Voice at Cardiff University will be closed at the end of the calendar year.”
“Since its creation in 2007 the academy has operated at a significant loss.”
“The academy, whose director is Welsh tenor Dennis O'Neill, aimed to attract an elite group of the most promising singers.”
“More than 50 singers have been coached and trained in the city so far.”
“The academy is based at a university halls of residence site in Penylan.”
“Dame Kiri gave a masterclass in 2008.”
“The academy was set up to offer one-to-one tuition to students over eight months, with experience of performing at least one opera.”
“At the time it was launched, Mr O'Neill said it had been an idea he had been thinking about for a decade and it was 'unique' and 'exciting' for Cardiff to offer practical courses.”
“In order to meet this deficit in the past, the university has heavily subsidised the academy.”
“Unfortunately, in the current economic climate and particularly because of the funding challenges facing higher education, the university is unable to continue to provide the high level of financial support needed to sustain the venture.”
“The university said it had tried to find ways to secure the academy's future, but could not source sufficient external funds to meet the running costs.”
“Mr Rapetsana says this will benefit the more than 11,000 children from the villages surrounding Rustenburg.”
“Dubovie first attended StageAbility aged nine, taking part in a Friday evening after-school class.”
“Aged 15, Dubovie got his first major role in a school production of Les Miserables, playing Enjolras, the charismatic leader of the student revolutionaries.”
“nine out of 10 children should get into the school of their first choice.”
“This would require £5m funding from the assembly government.”
“Mr Griffiths is reported to be a psychology graduate undertaking postgraduate research in criminology at Bradford University.”
“EACT, which sponsors eight academies with more in the pipeline.”
“academies in England leap from just over 200 now to well over 2,000 in a few years”
“the most significant change in the school system for 45 years”
“It said there was not enough money both to finish Labour's £55bn school renewal programme and fund free schools.”
“Building Schools for the Future was a central part of Labour's education reforms. It pledged to rebuild or renew every one of the 3,500 secondary schools in England by 2020.”
“Work is under way or finished in more than 400 schools”
“and another 1,000 are at various stages of planning.”
“Luke Sibieta, from the IFS, said it was "difficult to imagine" the government would be able to fund both projects and "something had to give somewhere".”
“"Either they have to scale back plans for free schools or reduce building schools for the future by a substantial degree," he said.”
“About 200 students and staff from Middlesex University have staged an overnight sit-in protest over the closure of the philosophy department.”
