2,803 source-backed education facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 27 of 29.
“The most comprehensive UK study to date, by London University’s Institute of Education, has shown a clear correlation between significant drops in class size and attainment by low-achievers.”
“So, a second-term Labour government should cut average class sizes to 20 in primary schools where a high proportion of children are eligible for free school meals.”
“His 1983 publication Modern Times made him a hero of the American right.”
“Intellectuals, which followed in 1988, confirmed Johnson’s status.”
“just under a third wanted a job in marketing or management consultancy”
“with up to 30,000 slots”
“an amazing 11 per cent believe they will be “post-economic” by their 30th birthday”
“half as many Oxford graduates went into public service careers as those from Cardiff”
“6.5 per cent of Cardiff leavers went on to teacher training, compared to less than 3 per cent from Oxford”
“Boy George would give parents with kids in bad schools vouchers of no less than $1,500, so that they could spend this munificent windfall on private education.”
“On education, for example, Boy George would give parents with kids in bad schools vouchers of no less than $1,500, so that they could spend this munificent windfall on private education.”
“By 1850, there were more than 700 mechanics’ institutes, literary institutes, athenaeums and mutual improvement societies commanding a combined membership of more than 120,000 people in Yorkshire and Lancashire alone.”
“those pupils not on the programme were one and a half times more likely to have had intercourse by the age of 16 than those who were.”
“The campaign is based on ten years of research.”
“One in five school-age children – almost one in two in some local authorities – receives special needs education.”
“More than 3 per cent have a legally binding “statement””
“Between one-fifth and one-third of local education budgets is spent on servicing special needs.”
“In schools at the top of GCSE tables, an average of about 8 per cent of the pupils have special needs, against 33 per cent in schools at the bottom.”
“learning support assistants who subsist on less than £8,000 a year.”
“the rise in the proportion of pupils who are statemented from 1.84 per cent in 1989 to 3 per cent in 1999.”
“200,000 or so teachers who applied for a pay increase under the government’s “payment by results” scheme.”
“worth £2,000 a year”
“disappear for a day to a meeting in a hotel.”
“about ten hours”
“estimated £100m on staff time taken “brainstorming”, form-filling, form-checking and so on”
“about £500 for each teacher applying”
“Mary’s head approved four applications, including Mary’s.”
“The company looked at three of them.”
“three-quarters of all applications”
“Over the past three years, we have played a major role in support of primary and basic education.”
“Hague, earlier this year, laid out a plan for “free” schools – schools that would receive funding directly from the government, and whose governors and heads would be “free to manage their own budgets, free to employ their own staff, free …”
“David Blunkett, the Secretary of State for Education, has gone further than Green would have believed possible in putting the management of schools, even education authorities, out to tender.”
“Bidders for the council’s £86m seven-year contract were judged against a series of tests.”
“Nord Anglia felt the risks were such that the cost of running the education service should be greater by almost £3m a year.”
“Ministers agreed, in effect, to a one-off subsidy of £1m.”
“CEA’s annual profit has been capped at £600,000 to ensure that there is no perverse incentive to cut services.”
“But those performance targets – no fewer than 411 in all – may produce their own perverse incentives.”
“CEA is, for example, contracted to answer the phone after no more than six rings.”
“The three main officers in the education department were “let go” at a cost to the council of £250,000, and they have been replaced by a new team.”
“CEA is the first company to take over an entire education service, and it did so only in April.”
“His Education, Education, Privatisation is on BBC2, 2 September, 6.45pm.”
“published by Bantam on 7 September”
“(Routledge, 1993)”
“About one in five of the more middle-class and more motivated children are creamed off at the age of 11 – either to grammar schools or to schools in the leafy surrounding suburbs – leaving Birmingham’s schools to teach the children from it…”
“And out of the top 20 schools in its league table, no fewer than seven were Birmingham schools.”
“Selly Park Technology College for Girls, for example, gets 52 per cent through five or more good GCSEs, which is better than any other school in Britain where more than half the pupils get free meals (the national average for such schools …”
“Selly Park’s figures are especially impressive when you know that two-thirds of its pupils do not speak English at home, two-thirds are from one-parent families, and more than two-thirds arrive at the school at 11 unable to read properly.”
“There would be a week’s delay, because Woodhead was ill.”
“two months later, in October 1997, the row blew up again.”
“Three years ago, the government’s school standards watchdog, Ofsted, inspected Birmingham’s education authority.”
“it will cost you £2,800 each year, and up to £8,000 if you seek a specialised discipline such as medicine or law.”
“the country’s 164 remaining grammar schools”
“get signatures from 20 per cent of the 43,000 parents eligible to vote”
“by 31 July”
“we got the signatures of more than 15 per cent of the eligible parents”
“each of the 120 individual schools in Trafford”
“almost 20 per cent of the parents we knew about”
“the only one left was in the Greater Manchester borough of Trafford”
“Each city academy will get the same amount for each pupil as other schools in the area get, plus any amount that the local authority keeps for centrally provided services. In addition, it will get an extra £123 per pupil, and more if it ha…”
“They will be independent schools for which a sponsor – a business, a church, a charity or a very rich individual – is expected to find a fifth of the capital costs, which could be up to £2m.”
“Proposals from private-sector organisations that would like to run one had to be with Blunkett by 7 July.”
“They can select up to 10 per cent of their intake on the basis of aptitude for the school’s specialism.”
“Failing schools have one invariable characteristic: a core of seriously disruptive pupils. City academies will not have to take these pupils.”
“And spending on education this year will rise even faster than on health – a real increase of 9 per cent, compared with 7.4 for health.”
“In 1905, at the age of 19, Mallory arrived at Cambridge after winning a scholarship in history to Magdalene College.”
“In 1910, a year after leaving Cambridge, Mallory became a teacher at Charterhouse.”
“When Mallory returned to Charterhouse in 1919, he was more dissatisfied than ever.”
“In the summer of 1923, became an extra-mural lecturer in English history at Cambridge.”
“Notably, our young need hands‑on nurturing for at least seven years, but can’t reproduce until they’re about ten.”
“Later this year, Edinburgh University alone is awarding more than 20 honorary degrees.”
“With more than 1,000 honorary degrees bestowed in Britain each year, it is likely that the current asking price – put anywhere between £10,000 and £100,000 – will drop dramatically, and with it the status of the awards.”
“Ten days after Brown’s outburst, to vast fanfare and public accolades from the Chancellor, the Sutton Trust published its findings on the rough deal accorded to state-educated children.”
“including how, if students were admitted strictly on A-level grades, the top universities would take about 30 per cent fewer from private schools and about 30 per cent more from less affluent areas.”
“Now Lampl’s network includes David Blunkett, Gordon Brown and many of the vice-chancellors of the 13 top universities whose admissions policies he scrutinised and found wanting after the Higher Education Funding Council published the first…”
“Three-quarters of the people in my year at Merton must have been privately educated”
“Today, 56 per cent of those pupils getting three As at A level (the standard requirement for Oxbridge) come from the 93 per cent of pupils who are state educated, while 44 per cent of those getting three As come from the 7 per cent of inde…”
“two As, a C and an E”
“£42m over three years, benefiting at least 5,000 children and their families”
“more than £380m in pre-school education”
“Every four-year-old is already guaranteed a free nursery place”
“by 2002, every Scottish pre-schooler will have the same option”
“backed by £56m”
“£42m over three years”
“benefiting at least 5,000 children and their families”
“investing more than £380m in pre-school education”
“Even when people reach the fourth age of dependency, they should still be able to learn, argues NIACE, which is critical of the low standard of adult education in old people’s residential homes. This brings out all of Woodhead’s scorn. He …”
“From April 2001, a new Learning and Skills Council will be responsible for all post-16 education and training.”
“Increasingly, our growing population of retired people wants to learn something new, hence the extraordinary growth of the University of the Third Age, which had 22,000 members ten years ago and now has almost 100,000.”
“He said: “I have some sympathy with the 25 per cent of 85-plus-year-olds who said they have done enough learning in their lives, and . . . the 22 per cent who said simply that they were too old.”
“But, as he prepares for the annual Adult Learners Week (20-26 May), Tuckett at last has cause for celebration.”
“Within ten years, Lane believes, colleges, universities and adult education institutes will merge into one co-ordinated system, drawing funding from the same source.”
“If the government gets this right, it will be the most important educational revolution since the 1944 Education Act.”
“Our project runs holidays for over a hundred children at £95 a week”
“A stunning 53 per cent of Oxford under- graduates come from the 7 per cent of the population who attend fee-charging schools.”
“That 7 per cent of the population get 48 per cent of the places at Britain’s top five universities (Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics, Imperial College, London, and University College London), according to recent figures fr…”
“If you take the top 13 universities, then that 7 per cent get 39 per cent of the places.”
“Take all universities, and the 7 per cent get a quarter of the places.”
“And overall, more than nine out of ten fee-charging school products go on to higher education, according to the Independent Schools Information Service (ISIS).”
“According to figures just published by ISIS, the private sector has a ratio of one teacher to every 12 pupils.”
“In state schools, the ratio is one teacher to 19 pupils.”
