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“The letter also told governors they had a legal duty to make sure Sats were carried out and that could include asking volunteers to administer them.”
“while white students who apply to Oxford have a 38.9 per cent success rate in getting accepted, black students have a success rate of only 22.7 per cent (figures for 1999 applications).”
“And heads were being told they could expect a visit from someone 'high up in the trust' if they took part.”
“A friend of mine visited Cambridge as a sixth-former in 1997.”
“My chair of governors is also using emotional abuse, saying 'do I wish this to be my legacy - to be remembered as the head who boycotted Sats'”
“She saw an advert for a May ball with tickets costing more than £100.”
“He said the test papers had arrived at his school but he had sealed the box back up and hidden it.”
“241-page textbook”
“A head teacher of a Nottingham primary school for 24 years”
“Three years ago”
“About 80% of teachers complain about stress at work and thousands of teachers leave the profession every year - predominantly due to stress, Mr Illingworth says.”
“from the year 2002”
“In a classroom of 25 to 30 pupils, all with individual needs, you have to be on top of your game - particularly if you have a challenging class.”
“for more or less six months of the year”
“According to the Teacher Support Network, which runs a well-being helpline, one in four of those who called between January and March this year described themselves as suffering from stress - compared to one in five the year before.”
“In 1963, the National Extension College began as a pilot project”
“In the first quarter of 2010 the network's support services were used 49,000 times.”
“which was founded six years later”
“About 80% of teachers complain about stress at work”
“The school takes around a hundred students a year”
“one in four of those who called between January and March this year described themselves as suffering from stress”
“about 35 per cent of French people say they can now have a conversation in English”
“compared to one in five the year before”
“I thought it was quite wrong that, for more or less six months of the year, the Cambridge facilities were not used for teaching students.”
“He went on to have a breakdown at the age of 55.”
“In 1963, the National Extension College began as a pilot project, paving the way for the Open University itself, which was founded six years later.”
“In a classroom of 25 to 30 pupils”
“The school takes around a hundred students a year, usually older than school leavers and with high levels of energy and persistence, and a “tendency to relish uncertainty, change and new ideas”.”
“one in four of those who called between January and March this year described themselves as suffering from stress - compared to one in five the year before.”
“The school started in London, but now has branches in Liverpool, Belfast and Glasgow.”
“almost half a billion pounds is in what it calls 'excessive balances' held by individual schools.”
“In an early submission, Australia explicitly put down a marker that it has national companies interested in education.”
“about 28,000 school leaders”
“At the 1997 election, new Labour pro-mised to cut all infant class sizes to 30.”
“at 1,574 schools”
“First, it shows that smaller classes do improve results – but only where there are dramatic reductions in pupil numbers to between 15 and 20.”
“About 7,000 schools, it said, had excessive balances, adding up to £495m”
“The researchers concluded that “a drop in class size from 25 to 15 leads to a gain in literacy of about one year’s achievement for the bottom 25 per cent, and about five months for the rest”.”
“to just more than 7,000 schools”
“In Tennessee, 79 primary schools had their class sizes reduced from 22-26 to 13-17. The result was a boost, for all pupils, in their test scores; but the ethnic minority pupils did twice as well as the average.”
“by the end of 2010-11”
“Wisconsin, for example, has found that, in schools with classes of 15-20, pupils significantly outperform their contemporaries in other state schools.”
“from 2011-12”
“The NAHT, which represents about 28,000 school leaders, says its research shows the real number of schools with uncommitted balances above the threshold allowed is much lower - at 1,574 schools. That would be equal to 7.5% of England's sch…”
“The NAHT, which represents about 28,000 school leaders, says...”
“He had attacked a pupil at All Saints' Roman Catholic School, Mansfield, in July 2009 after returning from several months' sick leave for stress and depression.”
“including Rwanda which has more than 20,000 pupils using them.”
“Mr Keller said the country already had an order for 70,000 more.”
“The partnership with the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aims to distribute half a million laptops to Palestinian children throughout the Middle East.”
“has begun to distribute a further 2,100 to a school in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza strip.”
“Some of the countries have already run small trials with the machines, including Rwanda which has more than 20,000 pupils using them.”
“In the deepest recession for over 70 years, with a fall in GDP of over 6%, pupil numbers have fallen by only 0.6%.”
“There are 10% more pupils at ISC schools now than there were in 1996.”
“The fall over the last year represents an average of only two pupils per ISC school.”
“The Independent Schools Council (ISC) census showed 511,886 pupils were being privately educated, compared with 514,531 last year - a fall of 0.6%.”
“The average private school fee per term was £4,186, excluding nursery fees.”
“The average boarding school fee per term was £8,003 and the average day fee was £3,571 per term.”
“The census showed the lowest fee increase for 16 years, with parents paying on average 4% more to educate their children this year.”
“A total of 161,605 pupils - 32.5% - received help with their fees and the value of this help totalled more than £660m a year.”
“More than 80% of assistance came directly from the schools themselves, with ISC schools providing more than £540m of assistance with fees in the academic year 2009-10.”
“The census revealed the pupil-teacher ratio stood at one teacher for every nine pupils, compared with an average of almost 17 pupils per teacher in maintained schools in England in 2009.”
“The survey showed 67,856 pupils were boarding at ISC schools, making up 13.3% of total pupil numbers, while 61% of ISC schools had no boarders at all.”
“The average boarding school fee per term was £8,003.”
“The average day fee was £3,571 per term.”
“The census revealed the pupil‑teacher ratio stood at one teacher for every nine pupils, compared with an average of almost 17 pupils per teacher in maintained schools in England in 2009.”
“The survey showed 67,856 pupils were boarding at ISC schools, making up 13.3% of total pupil numbers.”
“61% of ISC schools had no boarders at all.”
“The census was completed by 1,260 schools.”
“511,886 pupils were being privately educated, compared with 514,531 last year - a fall of 0.6%.”
“The tests - to be taken by about 600,000 children in the last year of primary school - are being boycotted by two teachers' unions, the National Association of Head Teachers and the National Union of Teachers.”
“The Department for Children, Schools and Families says planning for this year's tests is 'going ahead as scheduled'.”
“We will continue to advise head teachers to follow our industrial action advice and to keep the 2010 papers securely locked up.”
“current maximum of £3,225 paid by students”
“There were over 90 submissions, all of which we have made available.”
“representing 20 leading universities”
“next month”
“In Lewisham in south London, the council has to find space for the equivalent of an extra 17 reception classes by September.”
“In Surrey, the council says the birth rate has risen by 20% between 2002 and 2008 - which will mean having to create an extra 6,000 places in primary and secondary schools in the next four years.”
“And the Office for National Statistics says the rise in births between 2007 and 2008 alone will mean an extra 700 classrooms when these children reach school age.”
“Last year funding was given by the government to create an extra 15,000 primary places, as councils struggled to accommodate increasing numbers of children starting school.”
“The local authority group, London Councils, has forecast that the capital would need an extra 18,300 places in the next four years.”
“the council has to find space for the equivalent of an extra 17 reception classes by September.”
“In Richmond in south-west London, space for an extra nine classes has had to be added for the autumn”
“in Surrey, schools have had to accommodate the equivalent of an extra 14 classes of children.”
“this has meant adding an extra 11 permanent and temporary classrooms for the autumn.”
“the council says the birth rate has risen by 20% between 2002 and 2008 - which will mean having to create an extra 6,000 places in primary and secondary schools in the next four years.”
“the Office for National Statistics says the rise in births between 2007 and 2008 alone will mean an extra 700 classrooms when these children reach school age.”
“funding was given by the government to create an extra 15,000 primary places, as councils struggled to accommodate increasing numbers of children starting school.”
“three quarters of boroughs had to create extra places to cope with demand last year.”
“rising by more than a third in some boroughs since 2001.”
“space for an extra nine classes has had to be added for the autumn.”
“adding an extra 11 permanent and temporary classrooms for the autumn.”
“the birth rate has risen by 20% between 2002 and 2008 - which will mean having to create an extra 6,000 places in primary and secondary schools in the next four years.”
“there were 114,000 more children born in 2008 than in 2001”
“the rise in births between 2007 and 2008 alone will mean an extra 700 classrooms when these children reach school age.”
“the gap between these highs and lows in this 20-year cycle is the equivalent of about 3,800 primary classes.”
“Last year funding was given by the government to create an extra 15,000 primary places”
“In London, three quarters of boroughs had to create extra places to cope with demand last year.”
“space for an extra nine classes has had to be added for the autumn”
“schools have had to accommodate the equivalent of an extra 14 classes of children.”
