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“Last year, private schools spent an average of £767 per pupil on new and improved buildings and equipment.”
“She was a 21 year-old undergraduate student when her design was selected for the Vietnam War Memorial.”
“There is no equivalent figure published for state school pupils; but on the figures available, you can work it out: it’s just £96.”
“which was mostly all-male for 300 years.”
“fee-charging schools will still be spending at least six times as much as state schools.”
“died April 28th”
“Average fees are up 6.3 per cent this year to £6,855 a year.”
“The Department for Education gives a figure of £3,096 for state schools.”
“Bizarrely, eight out of ten of the schools are registered charities.”
“The numbers of children in fee-charging schools has increased in 13 of the past 18 years.”
“Before the report, primary schools were 20,000 teachers short.”
“After its publication, they flocked to the profession in such numbers that one of the leading providers of training, Goldsmiths College in London, expanded the number of places on its postgraduate primary course from 30 to well over 100.”
“yet even new Labour will find some of its ideas echoed in her report, which was published in 1967”
“On 27 April, an Australian is coming to tell us how.”
“Britain still has 164 grammar schools.”
“fire the £50,000-a-year head; bring in a new one on £70,000 a year; give him £1.5m to spend”
“The 2 or 3 per cent most difficult schools, he writes, need five times as many teachers”
“where schools break for as long as three months in the summer”
“Children eligible for free school meals are four times as likely as other children to require Reading Recovery”
“We have trained 2,000 Reading Recovery teachers, but only 700 of them are doing the scheme’s work”
“she wants us to ensure that the programme reaches the 20 per cent poorest readers in the age group”
“The best Continental countries have between ten and 12 pupils per teacher; in our state schools, the figure is 19.”
“Britain’s private schools (where the average class size is ten) provide a uniquely superior alternative to state education – but only for the affluent.”
“Dick Atkinson, a sociologist at Birmingham University who has worked in the city’s slums for 30 years.”
“there was one voluntary agency. There are now 70 busying themselves”
“The farming section takes up 43 pages, almost 10 per cent of the thesaurus. To it must be added the 14 pages of the section devoted to domestic animals, and the 24 pages of the environment section. The 33 pages of words relating to food an…”
“Almost all the words – at least 90 per cent of them – are obsolete.”
“The cost? The council has budgeted £20,000.”
“Islington ratepayers had to meet a substantial proportion of the £260,000 bill.”
“Leeds is one of three authorities in Yorkshire on which Ofsted has just delivered reports... The Woodhead spin machine was equal to this small inconvenience. The Sheffield report was put out on the same day – 2 February – as the Leeds and …”
“The reality is that consultants are to work on only four specific areas, for just one month, at Sheffield’s request.”
“The inspectors concluded that just one area of Sheffield’s performance was unacceptably low: the underfunding of school buildings.”
“Leeds is one of three authorities in Yorkshire on which Ofsted has just delivered reports. Along with Rotherham, Leeds was judged by the inspectors to be failing and, therefore, an immediate case for private consultants. The third authorit…”
“The DfEE, at Crossley Holland’s insistence, has agreed to issue another press release putting this right.”
“She also announced that she was looking for more consultants "to meet the expected increase in the number of LEA interventions".”
“Britain still has 164 grammar schools that are allowed to choose the pupils they wish to teach, and to force other local schools to teach those they reject.”
“Forty-six per cent of 11-16 year olds attend its seven grammar schools; the rest go to secondary moderns, euphemistically called high schools.”
“They need 8,500 signatures and so far they have about 2,600. They have sweated for every one of them. [...] On that date, all the signatures suddenly become invalid, and if they have not reached their 20 per cent, they have to start all ov…”
“They need 8,500 signatures and so far they have about 2,600. They have sweated for every one of them.”
“On that basis, about one in ten of the signatures so far will be disqualified because, for example, several mothers have signed in their maiden names but appear on the school list in their married names.”
“In fact, three Trafford schools have not supplied such lists, and no one is apparently able to force them to do so.”
“He wrote telling them of “a request from those organisations that actively seek to abolish grammar schools”. With the letter he enclosed a very long form. The ballot requires only names and addresses, but Spinks’s form also asked for schoo…”
“Spinks now admits that he made an error of judgement and has been mildly rebuked by the DfE.”
“The rules are even more biased for those areas where fewer than 25 per cent of the children go to grammar schools. There, the only parents eligible for a vote are those whose children attend “feeder schools”, where a minimum number of chil…”
“we will reduce levels of truancy by one-third by the year 2002”
“classes of under 30”
“spending per pupil in secondary schools is at its lowest level for 20 years”
“It had 50 people working in undergraduate admissions alone to admit 1,650 students each year.”
“the average size of the undergraduate admissions office was 40 people”
“The Mellon Foundation did a research study of over 20,000 students who came through the system that is now in place.”
“it was found that 40 per cent of black graduates in the survey went on to get a qualification that provides entry to the top professions in the US.”
“blacks were five times more likely than the general college-going population to get a qualification in medicine”
“and seven times more likely to get one in law.”
“The average A-level score in some of the top private schools is greater than 28 points.”
“It has documented evidence that a student from a below-average performing school can be accepted with lower A-level grades (by two to three points) and get a degree as good as, or better than, the student who comes from a high performing s…”
“students from social classes three to six account for roughly two-thirds of the population but less than one-fifth of the entry to leading universities and medical schools.”
“As a non-mathematician who spent two years writing about pure mathematicians”
“the proof can be expressed in just half a dozen lines”
“Other proofs are enormously complicated, running to 100 pages of dense equations, such as the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem”
“Average fees for a fee-charging day school are £5,463 a year; in London, the average is £6,111.”
“But according to a National Association of Head Teachers survey, the average sum delegated to schools is £2,422 per year per pupil, and local authorities may be spending up to one-fifth more, giving a total of £2,906.”
“At North London Collegiate, Phillips is paying about £7,500 a year for each of his daughters.”
“Its budget is £2,714 per pupil per year. If you add in the cost of central services provided by Camden Council, you get up to a notional figure of £4,034, though the real comparable figure is probably in the region of £3,500”
“Are schools not achieving in Islington? Then pay PricewaterhouseCoopers more than £250,000 to devise a scheme for handing them over to private contractors.”
“Labour scrapped it – the only action it has taken that is hostile to the private sector in education – because it allowed fee-charging schools to cream off the brightest children, and required taxpayers to cough up something like twice as …”
“Later, he spent four years at St Andrews University”
“the University of St Andrews, where he excelled as a student, has asked a number of leading poets, including Douglas Dunn, Les Murray and Edwin Morgan, to write poems in Fergusson’s honour”
“Edison Schools, a US-based company, illustrates this desire for expansion very well. It opened its first four schools in August 1995 and now has 79 schools, with more than 37,000 students.”
“Edison Schools caters predominantly for the disadvantaged – 65 per cent of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and the largest group of pupils is African-American.”
“In Brazil, Objetivo/UNIP, for example, has 500,000 school and university students across 400 campuses.”
“In India, NIIT has more than 400,000 students and now it is expanding into 20 other countries, including, in a nice twist on global capitalist imperialism, the US.”
“In South Africa, Educor has 300,000 students on 127 campuses.”
“Even China now has such chains. South Ocean Schools has 8,000 students in six schools and one university, and it has plans to open two more in the next five years”
“the Educational Industry Development Academy has 18,000 students in 20 schools and one university.”
“It is a truism that state education desperately lacks capital investment here: the Times Educational Supplement recently featured educational experts demanding £5 billion of investment in our schools for capital improvements.”
“Edison Schools invests, on average, about £1 million in every school it takes over, in terms of curriculum, teacher education and technology”
“pay 10,000 forints for her son’s school textbooks, when her monthly salary is only Ft30,000”
“Greengate can only take a maximum of 12 children.”
“Two million viewers watched him on BBC2’s Talking Cure programme”
“50 or so other EBD children at Brind’s school”
“all of Britain’s 25,000 schools”
“350 further education colleges”
“27 hours of teaching a week”
“15.4 per cent fall”
“7.5 per cent drop”
“advanced-skills teachers”, or “superteachers”, whose pay can go up to £40,200.”
“classroom teachers who cannot earn more than £22,038 a year”
“lecturers who are held down to a staged increase of between 2 per cent and 2.9 per cent this year”
“increases for vice-chancellors are expected to be at least on the same scale as last year, when they averaged 6.8 per cent”
“Before this increase the average vice- chancellor earned £105,344”
“The best paid, at University College, London, earned £144,709”
“the 350 further education colleges”
“Some lecturers earn as little as £11,000 a year”
“15.4 per cent fall in applications for primary teaching courses”
“7.5 per cent drop in those wishing to take a postgraduate certificate in education”
“teachers with good honours degrees start on £14,751 (going up this week to £15,012)”
“I took my 11-plus 25 years ago in York”
“At 19 I could single-handedly terminate parties with my monologues on the causes of the first world war”
“The chip on my shoulder that came from being deselected at the age of 11 has never left me.”
“wouldn’t have suited me as well at 11 as it did when I was able to transfer at 16.”
