Popular shhools win cash to expand
Article Abstract:
UK government efforts to maintain parental choice and reduce class sizes will be boosted by additional funding for popular schools, the names of which will be officially announced at the start of July 1998. The Budget in March 1998 agreed that GB 40mn should be put towards an additional 600 classrooms to guarantee that popular schools including church schools obtain the total cost of increasing the number of classrooms. UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is keen that by 2001 classes of five-to-seven year-olds are no more than 30 each and the government is hoping that such a plan will not result in popular school places being refused.
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UK: Budget in 3/98 stipulates that GBP40 mil should be put towards funding for additional 600 classrooms
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Closer inspection could narrow the ethnic gap
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It is becoming increasingly clear that different ethnic groups derive very different benefits from the UK education system. African-Caribbean children perform considerably above the local education authority average at entry level, but have fallen below the average by GCSE level. The performance of Bangladeshi children improves over this period, but they remain below the average. Indian children begin below the average, but rise to 14% above the average by GCSE level. Some observers believe that only detailed monitoring will allow black students to achieve their full potential.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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