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Jan 10 2012
Number of free schools due to open in 2012 which are (a) new schools and (b) existing schools transferring to free school status.
Jan 10 2012
1. Places allocated for Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) courses by subject to start in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 academic years, England
2. Applications for Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) courses by subject to start in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 academic years, England
Dec 20 2011
Free schools due to open in 2012 and beyond, by Local Authority.
Dec 20 2011
Revenue (pupil funding) provided to the twenty-four Free Schools opened in 2011 (excluding site and set-up costs). Contains link to funding methodology for Free Schools.
Dec 12 2011
Number of Academies (including Free Schools) open in England by Local Authority, 2010/11.
Dec 8 2011
Department of Education (and its predecessor) spending on litigation lawyers' fees and expenditure on judicial review proceedings, 2005/6 - 2011/12.
Dec 1 2011
Number of visits to schools by the Secretary of State for education by type, May - November 2010.
Dec 1 2011
Number of state schools (mainstream only) having closed in each year since 2000.
Nov 29 2011
As of 1 October 2011, number of primary and secondary schools that had converted to academy status
Nov 24 2011
How many schools have (a) become academies and (b) applied to become academies in each (i) region and (ii) parliamentary constituency as of 1 November 2011
Nov 24 2011
The names and locations of the first 24 mainstream Free Schools opened in September 2011.
Oct 31 2011
Number of pupils aged 11 in grammar schools, 2007-11
Sep 13 2011
Number of schools that have converted to academies and the number of applications outstanding to September 2011.
Jul 12 2011
The powers local authorities have to control or direct state schools and academy schools
Jun 27 2011
New contracts awarded by DfE with a value over £10,000 since January 2011.
Jun 22 2011
Funding for new Academies; access to Academies Capital Building Programme.
Jun 7 2011
Number of grammar schools having applied for or converted to academy status since 2010.
May 24 2011
UK domiciled full-time first degree qualifiers who previously attended an independent school by degree classification UK higher education institutions. Academic year 2009/10
May 23 2011
Children aged 19 years old who were in higher education (i.e. studies beyond A level) and who were looked after aged 16 years (in their 17th year in a foster placement as their final placement when they ceased to be looked after). Years ending 31 March 2005 to 2010. Coverage: England
May 18 2011
Number and percentage of pupils by type of school, as at January 2010. In England, by local authority area and region
May 4 2011
UK-domiciled full-time undergraduate entrants by socio-economic classification, UK Higher Education Institutions, academic years: 2009/10
May 4 2011
Numbers and proportions of the cohort of young people of academic age 16 enrolled in various institution types for the last five years
Apr 26 2011
Grant maintained primary and secondary schools : Number of schools and the highest and lowest number of pupils, England, January 1999
Apr 26 2011
Grants and funding streams for schools not included in the definition of core funding, 2009 - 12
Mar 30 2011
Allocation of capital funding to schools and local authorities, 2011 - 12
Mar 30 2011
Budget for capital needs and start-up costs of free schools, 2010 - 11
Mar 23 2011
Number of independent schools which have applied to become free schools 2011
Mar 18 2011
Number and percentage of faith schools in maintained mainstream school system
Mar 18 2011
Number of state-funded secondary schools with or without a sixth form in England and each local authority area.
Mar 17 2011
Proportion of funding for primary and secondary education in England derived from public and private sources , 2009 -10
Mar 17 2011
Percentage of pupils by ethnic group and by religious character of the school in maintained primary and state-funded secondary schools, 2010, England 2010
Mar 15 2011
Proportion of secondary school children who attend selective schools, and number of such schools
Mar 8 2011
Number and Government support of state boarding schools in England
Mar 4 2011
Number of pupils educated out of mainstream education, Jan 2010
Jan 19 2011
Number of children who attended 1. maintained primary and secondary schools, 2.Catholic maintained primary and secondary schools who were eligible for free school meals, 2009-10.
Jan 19 2011
Number of pupils attending secondary schools in which there were over (a) 1,000, (b) 1,500 and (c) 2,000 pupils in 2010
Jan 17 2011
Independent schools : number and percentage of pupils aged 5 to 10 and 11 to 15, 2006 - 10
Jan 11 2011
Number of surplus places available at schools in England, 2010
Dec 13 2010
Number of schools applying to become academies, Dec 2010
Dec 8 2010
Number of secondary schools with pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 and the proportion of these schools that had at least one entry in a vocational qualification.
Dec 7 2010
Number of part-time degree entrants at the Open University and other higher education institutions in 2008-09
Dec 1 2010
Number of primary schools involved in the Enterprise Network activities, 2010
Nov 16 2010
Information on where academy schools and free schools are subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Nov 4 2010
Admissions criteria for faith schools that become academies.
Nov 1 2010
Schools that have successfully applied for free school status, with the date that the proposal was received.
Oct 27 2010
Mechanisms for parents to submit complaints about the operation of academy schools.
Oct 14 2010
Number of independent schools that have submitted formal proposals to become free schools.
Oct 11 2010
Admission policy at academies
Oct 11 2010
Where funding for a) special needs support services, b) behaviour support services, c) education welfare, d) school meals, e) pupil support and f) staffing costs will come from for academies, within the Academies' General Annual Grant.
Oct 4 2010
Number of primary and secondary schools that have registered their interest in becoming an academy, as at 27 August 2010.
Sep 13 2010
Number and proportion of children of compulsory school age in each local authority area who attended independent schools, Jan 2010.
Jul 22 2010
Number of schools in England which (a) are grammar schools, (b) are controlled, foundation, voluntary-aided or voluntary-controlled and (c) have sixth forms; and how many grammar schools with sixth forms are controlled, foundation, voluntary-aided or voluntary-controlled
Jul 20 2010
Number of pupils in pupil referral units with special educational needs (SEN) without a statement by age, in England, by local authority, Jan 2010
Jul 19 2010
Number of pupils in pupil referral units by age in England, by local authority, Jan 2010
Jul 15 2010
Average number of appropriate schools within two miles by local authority of pupil residence, January 2010
Jul 14 2010
Number of pupils with and without statements of special educational needs in alternative provison (other than pupil referral units),2008 and 2009
Jul 12 2010
Number of secondary schools graded as outstanding by Ofsted who do not have a sixth form. May 2010
Jul 7 2010
Local authorities which have no secondary schools with sixth forms
Jun 7 2010
Number of organisations administering two or more Academy schools
Mar 25 2010
Number of surplus places in maintained secondary schools between 2005 and 2009
Mar 25 2010
Contracts awarded by the Department to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the value of each contract, 2007 - 11
Mar 24 2010
Number of children being educated at Muslim schools, Jan 2009
Mar 3 2010
Number of maintained primary schools with over 800 pupils, 1997 and 2009, England
Jan 26 2010
Enrolments in UK Higher Education institutions, 2007/08 and 2008/09
Jan 25 2010
Number and proportion of pupils who progressed to Higher Education by age 19 in 2005/06 and 2006/07
Jan 18 2010
Average per student funding of primary schools of varying sizes, 2009 -10
Jan 13 2010
Number of maintained nurseries that have closed, with reasons, 2005 - 08
Jan 7 2010
Number of primary and secondary schools opened and closed in each region 1997 - 2009
Jan 5 2010
Schools in the listed local authorities which have become co-operative Trust schools.
Jan 5 2010
Number of primary and secondary schools closed in each local authority area, 2008 - 09
Dec 16 2009
Government funding for the expansion of the co-operative schools network, 2008 - 09
Dec 14 2009
Number of Steiner Waldorf settings exempted from the Early Years Foundation Stage
Dec 14 2009
Local education authorities with a percentage of surplus places of at least 10, 2008.
Dec 14 2009
Number of rural primary and secondary schools closed , 2000 - 09
Dec 14 2009
Total budget share per pupil in secondary schools in England with an urban/rural split,: 2006-07
Dec 14 2009
Number of schools for children with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties in England
Dec 14 2009
Number of mainstream maintained secondary and primary schools with no male teachers.
Dec 9 2009
Proportion of foundation degrees offered by further education colleges, 2006/07
Dec 8 2009
Academies - capital funding contributions from sponsors and government
Dec 8 2009
Number of children under the age of 16 years being educated at home, 2009
Dec 8 2009
Proportion of young offenders who have special educational needs
Dec 7 2009
Average funding per capita for urban areas and rural areas under dedicated schools grant, 2007/08
Dec 7 2009
Funding allocated to rural authorities for small schools
Dec 3 2009
Number of all-Muslim girls', boys' and mixed sex boarding schools in England, 2009
Dec 2 2009
Number of schools in each local education authority with a percentage of surplus places of 25 or above.
Oct 12 2009
Number of single-sex maintained i) primary and ii) secondary schools, 1997 - 2009.
Jul 21 2009
The proportion of pupils achieving 5 + GCSEs at grades A*-C at acadamies and states schools, between 2004 and 2008.
Jun 26 2009
Pupil referral units in each local authority area attended by more than (a) 50 and (b) 100 pupils.
Jun 24 2009
Capital funding provided to each Building Schools for the Futures project completed in 2008. .
Jun 24 2009
Number of children attending grammar schools and what proportion of the secondary school population this figure represents, 2007 - 09 in each year
Jun 24 2009
Number of maintained mainstream secondary schools which (a) had between one and nine pupils and (b) 10 or more pupils with a statement of special educational needs at the end of Key Stage 4, 2008
Jun 24 2009
Number of schools with a specialism in sciences, who entered at least one pupil for GCSE chemistry in 2008.
Jun 17 2009
Annual cost of procedures for the grammar schools' ballot system
Jun 16 2009
Number of academies established in 2008 - 09
Jun 11 2009
Number of applications for university places made for the academic year 2008-09; and number of students accepted
Jun 10 2009
Number of pupils in maintained and state funded schools in 2008 and 2009 and projected number of pupils up until 2017.
Jun 4 2009
Departmental funding to voluntary aided schools with a religious character, 2001 - 04
Jun 3 2009
Number of schools in England educating five to seven year olds
Jun 3 2009
Projected number of pupils aged five and six in maintained primary and other schools, 2009 - 17, England
Jun 3 2009
Complaints about schools made to Ofsted, April 2007 to March 2009
Jun 1 2009
Number and percentage of pupils with no schools within two miles of their home where more than 30 per cent. of pupils achieved five GCSEs at A*-C including English and mathematics in 2008
Jun 1 2009
Number of full GCSE entries by pupils at the end of Key Stage 4, by school type, 2006 -08
Jun 1 2009
Schools in special measures for up to two years, Dec 2008
Jun 1 2009
Maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools with more than 20 per cent. of pupils with statements of special educational needs, Jan 2008
May 13 2009
Number of maintained secondary schools of each type in England.
May 7 2009
Circumstances under which a foundation school may be closed by a local authority.
Apr 28 2009
Guidance issued to local education authorities on the allocation of places at secondary schools to siblings of pupils at those schools.
Mar 31 2009
Number of maintained special schools and non-maintained special schools inspected by Ofsted in the 10% most deprived and 10% least deprived areas, and their inspection outcomes.
Mar 25 2009
Closure of rural schools and local authority area in which the schools are located, 2001 - 08
Mar 23 2009
Number and names of schools refused and granted approval to operate as specialist schools, 2009
Mar 18 2009
Percentage of children of secondary school entry age who gained a place at their first and second choice school , 2009
Mar 17 2009
Amount of grant payable to the governing bodies of voluntary aided schools with a religious character., 2004 - 09
Mar 17 2009
Non-maintained special schools with 100 or more pupils
Mar 16 2009
Source of funding for maintained Muslim schools and number of pupils educated in Muslim schools, England, 2008
Mar 12 2009
Number of schools the Schools Adjudicator criticised for their use of supplementary information forms in their admissions process, 2006 - 08
Mar 12 2009
Number of selective state secondary schools in England
Mar 9 2009
Number of independent schools catering wholly, or mainly, for pupils with special educational needs; in each local authority area, 1997 - 2009
Mar 9 2009
Number of pupil referral units opened in each year, by local authority area, 1998 - 2008
Mar 5 2009
Independent schools catering wholly or mainly for pupils with special educational needs which opened between 2005 and 2008
Mar 4 2009
Number of secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) urban areas closed, 2000 - 08
Mar 3 2009
All maintained secondary schools that have been replaced by Academies from 2002 to 2009
Mar 3 2009
Number and proportion of children attending child care and early years providers by age , England, 2005 - 07
Mar 3 2009
Number of maintained (a) primary schools designated as rural in 2007 and 2008 and (b) secondary schools currently defined as rural, 2009, in each county in England.
Mar 3 2009
Number of new Sure Start centres designated in each month in (a) 2007 and (b) 2006.
Mar 2 2009
Number of maintained special schools by size, 2008
Mar 2 2009
Funding allocated for (a) library services and (b) other education services in prisons by the DIUS , 2003 - 08
Mar 2 2009
Pupil referral units placed in special measures , 1997 - 2008
Feb 27 2009
Learning and Skills Council/ Training and Enterprise Council funded apprenticeship starts from 1997 - 2008
Feb 27 2009
Maintained special schools opening in 2008
Feb 26 2009
Number of primary schools in (a) rural and (b) urban areas that have closed , 2000 - 08, and number of small schools that have closed, by local authority, 2002 - 08
Feb 26 2009
Amount of revenue funding allocated by local authorities in England to maintained primary and secondary schools, 2001 - 09
Feb 25 2009
Fresh Start schools reaching the benchmark of 30 per cent. or more of pupils achieving five A* to C GCSEs including English and mathematics, 2005 - 08
Feb 12 2009
Number of SEN Key Stage 4 pupils attending academies 2003 - 08
Feb 12 2009
Expenditure on diplomas for the financial years 2005 - 08
Feb 12 2009
Numbers of specialist schools according to their particular specialism, 2006 - 08
Feb 11 2009
Number of independent schools primarily for pupils with special educational needs which opened 2003 - 08
Feb 10 2009
Number of specialist schools for music, 2006 - 08
Feb 5 2009
Number of childcare settings that have ceased operating permanently in each quarter, 2003 - 08
Feb 5 2009
Number and percentage of child care providers in England that have opened and closed, 2007 - 08
Feb 5 2009
Average number of vacant places per childcare setting in England, by type of provision, and by region, 2005 - 07
Feb 5 2009
Number of pupils on free school meals taught in schools with 1,500 or more and 2,000 or more, England, 1997 - 2008
Feb 5 2009
Dates for raising the education and training leaving age to (a) 17 and (b) 18 years
Feb 5 2009
Number of specialist schools in England, 2008
Feb 3 2009
Number and proportion of vacancies in nursery schools, 2006 and 2007
Jan 28 2009
Number of secondary schools in England, as of January 2009.
Jan 22 2009
Academies which are categorised in the National Challenge on the GCSE results of 2008..
Jan 22 2009
Estimate of when all teaching and non-teaching school staff will have had their Criminal Records Bureau checks completed.
Jan 21 2009
Number of and percentage decrease in National Challenge schools from 2006-08.
Jan 20 2009
Number of schools requiring special measures and significant improvement, from August 2008.
Jan 19 2009
Assessment of the findings in Ofsted’s report on schools that have successfully emerged from special measures.
Jan 19 2009
The mainstream and special schools that joined the Specialist Schools programme in 2007-08.
Jan 14 2009
The average number of months that primary and secondary schools spend in special measures, 1997-98 and 2007-08.
Jan 13 2009
Role of Government Offices in the new system of funding and management of sixth form colleges.
Jan 12 2009
Table showing the number of brand new maintained faith schools that have opened in each of the last 10 years.
Dec 16 2008
Number of primary schools by urban rural classification
Dec 16 2008
Departmental resources available to support school partnerships and collaborations
Dec 11 2008
Number of special schools in England, 1997 - 2008
Dec 10 2008
Number of Fresh Start schools opening since 2001
Dec 9 2008
List of school consortia offering the 14-19 diplomas and which diplomas are being offered
Dec 8 2008
Number of state-funded secondary schools and pupils by size of school, 1997 to 2008—England
Nov 26 2008
Number of maintained mainstream schools which have (a) closed or (b) merged since 2000
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils in academies in 2008 - 09
Nov 25 2008
Number of universities sponsoring an academy
Nov 25 2008
Number of academies being co-sponsored by a local education authority
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils in the schools to be rebuilt or refurbished in Building Schools for the Future programme
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils by size of school in state funded secondary schools, 1997 - 2008
Nov 25 2008
Number and percentage of pupils with special educational needs of behavioural, emotional or social difficulties by national curriculum year group in maintaind primary, state funded and all special schools, England 2008
Nov 25 2008
Number of full-time equivalent teachers and teaching assistants in local education authority schools in England, 1997 - 2008
Nov 19 2008
Number of learners funded by the Learning and Skills Council resident in each region. 2003 - 04 to 2006 - 07
Nov 17 2008
Number of unfilled school places in maintained secondary schools in England, 2008, was 299,538 (9 per cent.).
Nov 11 2008
Number of pupils placed in alternative provision or Pupil Referral Units , 1999 - 2008
Nov 10 2008
Number of specialist language colleges teaching languages on a compulsory basis until the age of 16 years
Nov 10 2008
Number of specialist science colleges offering GCSEs in the separate sciences
Nov 5 2008
Number of schools for pupils with special needs opened and closed in England since 1997.
Nov 4 2008
Number of pupils being taught in primary schools with over 800 pupils in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008.
Oct 14 2008
Number of primary schools closed or merged in each year since 1997.
Sep 1 2008
Number of people routed to higher education institutions by Train to Gain skills brokers.
Sep 1 2008
Number of academy schools in England, and which local education authority has the highest number of academy schools.
Sep 1 2008
Full-time equivalent number of teachers in publicly funded schools in England designated as having a religious character in England, January 2008
Sep 1 2008
Numbers of schools that have been designated as sports, technology, engineering and music colleges , 2005 - 08
Sep 1 2008
How many schools have high performing specialist status
and in what percentage of high performing specialist schools at least 65 per cent. of pupils have been awarded five A* to C GCSEs
Jul 7 2008
Average class size in each secondary academy school
Jul 7 2008
Local authorities who are participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how many schools in each participating authority are scheduled for (a) refurbishment and (b) replacement.
Jun 23 2008
Percentage of classes in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools set by ability , 2002 - 3
Jun 20 2008
Secondary schools : Number of girls aged 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by ethnic group, 2003 to 2008 ,England
Jun 13 2008
Number and proportion of full day care providers by type of ownership, from 2001
Jun 11 2008
UK domiciled entrants to foundation degree courses by age and prior qualification—UK higher education institutions academic year 2006/07
Jun 11 2008
Information on the pre-entry qualifications of students entering first degree courses in medicine , 2002 - 2007
Jun 11 2008
How many performing arts schools there are in England;]
Jun 10 2008
Proportion of 18 and 19 year olds from each local authority area who obtained a place at university in each year from 1997 to 2000.
Jun 5 2008
Number and prcentage off secondary schools providing the full core offer of extended services in each year for which figures are available.
Jun 5 2008
How many schools rated as (a) outstanding and (b) good by Ofsted since 2003 have subsequently been placed in special measures
Apr 30 2008
How many construction projects the DCFS undertook for which the capital cost was greater than £1.5 million; 2005 - 08
Apr 30 2008
Number of trust schools established under the provisions of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
Apr 29 2008
Number of new schools commissioned under the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how many commissioned under the private finance initiative model.
Apr 29 2008
Most recent annual budget, purpose and staff complement of the each of the DCFS (i) advisory bodies, (ii) corporations and (iii) tribunals.
Apr 29 2008
Proportion of lessons in each school year which were set, 2002/3
Apr 28 2008
Administrative costs from 1990-91 to 2006-07 for the departments which preceded the Department for Children, Schools and Families
Apr 28 2008
Number of documents sent to all primary and secondary schools , 1997 - 2004
Apr 28 2008
Average annual cost to schools of delivering (a) Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 national tests, (b) GCSEs and (c) A-Levels and AS-Levels
Apr 28 2008
Total Government UK education spend as a proportion of GDP, 1997 - 2011
Apr 28 2008
Full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists (EPs) and the number of children per EPs employed in local authority maintained schools in each local authority in England, January 2007
Apr 28 2008
Number of schools which have (a) applied for and (b) been granted (i) trust and (ii) foundation status in each (A) month and (B) quarter since 1 January 2005
Apr 28 2008
How many children attended grammar schools in each year since 1996 and what proportion of the secondary school population this represented in each year
Apr 28 2008
How many maintained schools have specialist status, broken down by specialism.
Apr 28 2008
Financial contribution made by the Department and its predecessors made (a) directly and (b) indirectly to the Specialist Schools and Academic Trust in each financial year since 2001-07
Apr 28 2008
Percentage of full and part-time( 1) secondary teachers that qualified in a particular year and were still in service in the maintained sector in England a number of years later
Apr 28 2008
The proportion of full-time equivalent unqualified teachers employed in local authority maintained schools in England by each local authority in January 2007
Apr 23 2008
Proportion of DIUS staff who worked part-time in 2007
Apr 21 2008
Number of private, voluntary and independent providers delivering a free early education to three and four-year-olds, 2004 - 07
Apr 21 2008
Number of nurseries opening and closing since 2003
Apr 21 2008
Number of pupil referral units opening and closing, 1998 - 2008
Apr 6 2008
How many people enrolled on (a) access courses and (b) foundation degrees in each year since 2006
How many (a) access courses and (b) foundation degree courses were running in each year since 2006
Apr 1 2008
How much funding has been allocated under the Building Schools for the Future programme, in each local authority and broken down by parliamentary constituency. [
Apr 1 2008
How many (a) academies, (b) grammar schools and (c) independent schools will offer the full range of diplomas from (i) September 2008 and (ii) September 2009
Mar 31 2008
Number of university students in England who were (i) mature students, (ii) part-time students and (iii) part-time students aged over (A) 21 years and (B) 40 years in each academic year from 2001-02 to 2006.07
Mar 31 2008
How many prisoners gained an (a) academic and (b) vocational qualification in each year since 1992.
Mar 31 2008
Number of temporarily filled full-time head teacher posts in local authority maintained schools in England, January 1998 to 2007.
Mar 31 2008
Number of pupils in grammar schools during the last three years
Mar 31 2008
How many schools were in Ofsted categories since 1997 and are no longer in such categories.
Mar 27 2008
Number of pupil referral units opening and closing in each of the last 10 years
Mar 26 2008
How many adults are currently enrolled in further education courses, work-based learning and Train to Gain
Mar 26 2008
Number of UK and overseas domiciled applicants and accepted applications to foundation degreee courses in the UK, years of entry 2002 - 2007
Mar 26 2008
Number of full time and part time entrants to higher education courses at English higher education institutions by age and level of study, academic years 2001/2 - 2006/7
Mar 26 2008
How many pupils' examination results were exempted from appearing in GCSE result tables in 2007.
Mar 26 2008
How many pupils achieved no grade higher than X at GCSE in 2007
Mar 26 2008
How many pupils in pupil referral units taking GCSEs did not obtain a single GCSE at C grade or above in 2007
Mar 26 2008
Number of maintained schools and pupils in each local authority
Mar 26 2008
Proportion of (a) academies, (b) comprehensive schools and (c) independent schools offering the new diplomas in September (i) 2008, and expected to be offering in 2009
Mar 25 2008
Number of pupils with special educational needs in the last five years in all schools
Mar 20 2008
Total annual revenue support for English (a) academy schools and (b) community schools in each year since 2003-04; and what the average spend per pupil was in English (i) academy schools and (ii) community schools in each year.
Mar 20 2008
Proportion of maintained schools which use religious faith as a criterion for admission
Mar 20 2008
Number of schools which have been closed after either being placed in special measures or given notice to improve since 1997.
Mar 20 2008
How many and what proportion of (a) academies, (b) independent schools and (c) trust schools have joined a consortium with other schools and colleges to provide diplomas
Mar 19 2008
Number of rural schools closing each year since 1998
Mar 17 2008
Number of village primary schools closed since 1998.
Mar 10 2008
How many schools (a) applied for and (b) received foundation status in each year since 2001
Mar 10 2008
How many schools became trust schools in 2007/8
Mar 3 2008
Number of children in maintained schools, listed by size of school
Feb 21 2008
The number of private finance schemes have been signed under the Building Schools for the Future programme
Feb 18 2008
Number of pupils in maintained primary schools in Jan 2007
Jan 31 2008
Number and names of educational facilities awarded university status in each year since 1997.
Jan 24 2008
How many year 1 pupils there were in schools in England in each of the last five years.
Jan 16 2008
Estimate is of the number of academies there will be between 2007-08 and 2020-21
Jan 16 2008
Which academies (a) are and (b) will be sponsored or co-sponsored by universities
Jan 10 2008
Which (a) universities and (b) further education colleges have the highest numbers of non-European Union students registered for courses; and how many such students each has registered.
Jan 10 2008
How many and what percentage of secondary school pupils were taught in schools with more than (a) 1,000 pupils, (b) 1,500 pupils and (c) 2,000 pupils in (i) 1990, (ii) 1995, (iii) 2000, (iv) 2005, (v)2006 and (vii)20077
Jan 7 2008
How many requests to open new grammar schools were received from each LEA since 1997; what approval is needed to open a new grammar school
Jan 7 2008
How many local authorities have one or more mainstream institutions offering the international baccalaureate.
Jan 7 2008
How many competitions for new schools were won by (a) academies, (b) local authority schools and (c) other schools in each month since January 2006
Dec 18 2007
The number of voluntary aided schools whose trustees are faith groups.
Dec 17 2007
The number of surplus places in secondary schools in each local authority area for each year from 2001-02 to 2007-08.
Dec 12 2007
Secondary schools which have gone into special measures in each month since 1st January 2007 and what proportion of pupils in each such school achieved five A* to C GCSEs in 2006 and 2007.
Dec 11 2007
The sponsors and co-sponsors of academies approved since June 2007.
Dec 10 2007
The number and proportion of schools built under the Building Schools for the Future programme which have up to and including 1,000 pupils, 1,001 to 1,500 pupils, 1,501 to 2,000 pupils and more than 2,000 pupils.
Dec 10 2007
Schools which have applied for and been granted trust and foundation status since 1 September 2006
Dec 10 2007
The number of pupils in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997.
Dec 10 2007
The number of pupils who attended secondary schools in which there were over 1,000, over 1,500 and over 2,000 pupils in each year since 1997.
Dec 3 2007
Local authorities included in the Building Schools for the Future programme who have made submissions which have not included a proposal to open an academy.
Dec 3 2007
The number of secondary schools and primary schools in each local authority in England.
Dec 3 2007
The number of academies, schools in special measures and schools given notice to improve in each region in the latest period for which figures are available.
Nov 22 2007
Number of maintained secondary schools which did not have specialist status as at January 2007 and the average level of free school meal eligibility of those schools.
Nov 22 2007
The number of maintained schools opened in each year since 1992.
Nov 22 2007
Funding and funding per pupil provided to academies, city technology colleges, grammar schools, community schools, foundation schools, voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools and specialist schools.
Nov 22 2007
The number of secondary schools which had more than 1,000 pupils and 1,500 pupils in 1997 and 2007.
Nov 21 2007
Number of surplus school places in primary and secondary schools in each year since 1998.
Nov 13 2007
Number of interim executive boards established in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Nov 12 2007
Number of academies (a) established, (b) agreed but yet to open and (c) proposed in each local education authority; and how many were for the age group 11 to 16 and 11 to 18 years in each case.
Oct 25 2007
Number of academies which have exceeded budgets for new buildings
Oct 24 2007
Schools which have closed and become academies
Oct 22 2007
Number of specialist sports colleges established.
Oct 18 2007
Number of city academies now open
Oct 15 2007
Number of pupils aged 10 and 15 in school for each year since 1995
Oct 15 2007
Number of secondary school places maintained in each year since1997
Oct 15 2007
Number of maintained special educational needs schools in each local education authority in England in 1996-97 and 2006-07
Jul 26 2007
Total sponsorship each academy has received to date
Jul 24 2007
Number of school closures in the last 10 years.
Jul 24 2007
Number of schools ha funded via the private finance initiative in the last five years
Jul 24 2007
Contribution from private investors to each academy’s capital costs
Jul 24 2007
Proportion of capital investment on schools accounted for by capital investment in academies in each year from 2001 to 2007
Jul 23 2007
How many schools have taken up (a) foundation and (b) trust status.
Jul 23 2007
How many specialist schools in each of the last 10 years.
Jul 17 2007
How many academies built since 2001 and cost of each
Jul 17 2007
GCSE results and truancy rates for each academy since 2000
Jul 17 2007
How much has been allocated in private finance initiative credits to each Building Schools for the Future project which has been agreed
Jul 17 2007
Percentage of parents receiving first choice of school on child’s transfer to secondary school
Jul 16 2007
Number of grammar schools in England
Jul 16 2007
Proportion of children educated in independent schools in each year from 1997 to 2007.
Jul 16 2007
Average size, by pupil numbers, of English secondary schools, in each year from 1990 to 2007
Jul 3 2007
Number of school age children attending independent schools
Jun 25 2007
Average percentage of the pupil intake in receipt of free school meals in each city technology college (CTC), academy CTC, academy and category of specialist school.
Jun 21 2007
Percentage of children selected by aptitude to attend city academies and specialist schools are in receipt of free school meals.
Jun 14 2007
The cost of each completed academy; and the contribution made by the Government to each.
Jun 11 2007
Target set for the number of city academies to be established in England by May 2010.
Jun 11 2007
The number of academy schools which are taking students, will open to students before the end of 2007 and have opened.
Jun 11 2007
Percentage of pupils at state city academies who have obtained five or more A*-C passes at GCSE in 2006.
Jun 11 2007
The number and the proportion of pupils in each academy school who have special educational needs; and the proportion of pupils who take free school meals.
Jun 11 2007
The average A-level results which were obtained by pupils at state city academies and other schools at A-level in 2006.
Jun 6 2007
Funding allocated to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Specialist Schools Trust in each year since 1997.
May 24 2007
Academies planned up to Sept 2008
May 23 2007
Spending by Dept on opinion surveys 2002 -2007
May 22 2007
Local Authorities selective, partially selective or comprehensive results KS2 to KS4
May 17 2007
Admissions criteria to academies
May 17 2007
Children being educated not in school
May 9 2007
Sponsors of academies May 2007
May 1 2007
Cost of academies building until March 2007
Apr 30 2007
Spending on consultants setting up academies since 2000
Apr 30 2007
Number of permanent exclusions of children with special educational needs (SEN) 1997-98 to 2004-05, in all schools in England
Apr 30 2007
Permanent and fixed period exclusions for physical assault against an adult 2004/05—by local authority area
Apr 27 2007
Exclusions from academies 2003 - 2005
Apr 27 2007
Number of schools in special measures 1997 -2006
Apr 26 2007
Numbers of academies, sponsors and amounts of sponsorship
Apr 16 2007
Analysis of academies results
Apr 3 2007
Building Schools for the Future - whether all types of schools can be granted building schools for the future funding.
Mar 27 2007
Pupil Referral Units - How many pupils at pupil referral units there were with pupils numbers of (a) under five, (b) between five to 10, (c) between 10 to 20, (d) between 20 to 30, (e) between 30 to 40, (f) between 40 to 50, (g) between 50 to 80, (h) between 80 to 100 and (i) over 100 in each year between 1997 and 2006.
Mar 27 2007
Ofsted staff complaints about bullying
Mar 27 2007
Proportion of 11 year olds with no secondary school within 2 miles 2006
Mar 26 2007
New Schools - How many new schools were built under the direct management of (a) his Department and (b) local authorities in each of the past 30 years.
Mar 26 2007
City Academies - number of pupils excluded from each academy in the last school year
Mar 22 2007
Time taken to respond by Dept
Mar 19 2007
Higher Education: Research - How many permanent academic research posts were funded in each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07; and what percentage this number was of all academic research posts funded in each year.
Mar 19 2007
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - What the salary is of each of the 10 highest paid employees of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
Mar 19 2007
Dept spending on advertising
Mar 14 2007
Secondments to the DfES
Mar 8 2007
Specialist Schools: Disabled - How many disabled children in England attended specialist colleges for their post-16 education, 2003-06
Mar 7 2007
Staffing and financing of OFSTED
Mar 5 2007
Proportion of different types of schools in league tables
Mar 1 2007
Number of independent schools and pupils since 1997
Feb 28 2007
Faith Schools: Islam - Which Islamic schools have been inspected by Ofsted in each of the last five years; and what the result was of each inspection.
Feb 22 2007
Departments: Pay - what the total sum of bonuses paid to civil servants in his Department was in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006.
Feb 8 2007
Special Measures - How many schools in special measures have been in special measures for (a) more than three terms, (b) more than six terms and (c) more than nine terms?
Feb 6 2007
Faith Schools: Finance - How much from public funds was paid to Catholic faith schools in each year since 1997.
Jan 30 2007
Recruitment Agencies - Amount paid to recruitment agencies for the hire of temporary staff in each year since 1997
Jan 24 2007
New Schools - How many new schools have been built in each (a) local education authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency in England since 1 May 1997
Jan 19 2007
Special Educational Needs - What proportion of children with special educational needs have been educated at special schools in each year since 2003.
Jan 16 2007
School Buildings - Which construction companies have been (a) considered and (b) selected as principal partners in the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Jan 16 2007
Building Schools for the Future- (1) what the criteria are for schools' eligibility for Building Schools for the Future funding; (2) how many (a) community schools, (b) voluntary aided schools, (c) voluntary controlled schools and (d) foundation schools have been granted Building Schools for the Future funding; and how many of these are (i) special schools,
Jan 16 2007
School Buildings - How many school premises will be (a) rebuilt and (b) refurbished using funds from the primary capital programme in each of the next five years
Dec 19 2006
City Academies- Why the legislative provisions relating to (a) the composition and operation of the governing body under Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Education Act 2002, (b) Freedom of Information and the general provision of information to parents and (c) human rights applying to maintained schools do not apply in the same way to city academies.
Dec 19 2006
Public Finance Contracts - What (a) public private partnerships and (b) private finance initiative contracts have been entered into by his Department; what assets were transferred to the private sector as part of each deal; what the value of these assets was; what the total cost is of each contract; and what estimate was made of the cost to his Department
Dec 19 2006
Rural Support - What programmes of support his Department makes available to rural areas; and what the cost of such programmes is expected to be in 2007-08.
Dec 7 2006
Extended Schools - How many schools have been designated as extended schools in each local education authority; and what criteria for service delivery are required to be met?
Dec 5 2006
Extended Schools - How much was allocated to each local education authority to support the development of extended schools (a) up to March 2006 and (b) for 2006 to 2008.
Dec 5 2006
Free School Meals - How many pupils in each local education authority area in England are in receipt of free school meals.
Dec 5 2006
Energy Use - What estimate he has made of the impact of energy prices on school budgets.
Dec 4 2006
Schools Admissions - number of schools permitted to use pre-existing partial selection by ability and how many of those have admissions arrangements that allow for a percentage of pupils to be selected on the basis of ability.
Nov 28 2006
National Skills Academy Whether there will be a national skills academy in one of the five Olympic boroughs?
Nov 27 2006
Boarding Schools - How many places were available in state boarding schools in England in each year since 1976.
Nov 20 2006
Sixth Forms - How many schools applied (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully to open a sixth form in (i) 2004, (ii) 2005 and (iii) between January and October 2006.
Nov 6 2006
Community Cohesion - How schools will be assessed on the promotion of community cohesion; and what steps will be taken in respect of schools which do not reach the required standards.
Nov 1 2006
+ Structure Private Finance Initiative Projects : How much has been spent by his Department on Private Finance Initiative projects postponed pending further consideration or stopped in the last 12 months.
Oct 30 2006
+ Structure Departmental Contracts : Which contracts were awarded by his Department to Capita in each year from 2000-01 to 2005-06; what the cost was of each contract; what penalties for default were imposed on contract provisions; what the length was of each contract; and what provision was made for renewal without re-tender in each case.
Oct 25 2006
+ structure Schools Budget - What the schools budget of each local authority was for 2005-06; and what proportion was delegated to schools in each authority.
Oct 23 2006
Muslim Schools - How many state-funded Muslim schools there were in England in each of the last five years.
Oct 23 2006
Muslim Schools - How much money was received from his Department by maintained Muslim faith schools in England in each of the past five years.
Oct 23 2006
Nursery Education - What percentage of nursery schools is (a) state-funded, (b) voluntary and (c) private; and if he will make a statement.
Jul 12 2006
School Closures - How many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have closed in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in each year since 1997?
Jul 10 2006
Academies - What assessment he has made of the impact of academies' educational achievement in areas of educational deprivation?
Jul 10 2006
Grammar Schools - How many pupils were educated at grammar schools in each year since 1997?
Jul 6 2006
School Opt-out How many schools are estimated to wish to opt out of local authority control?.
Jul 4 2006
City Academies Which (a) businesses, (b) charities, (c) individuals and (d) voluntary groups Ministers have corresponded about sponsoring city academies since 16 March 2006.
Jun 12 2006
City Academies - What the capital cost is (a) of each city academy and (b) expected to be of each academy for which there is a firm financial commitment; how many pupils are (i) at each existing academy and (ii) planned to be at each academy for which there is a firm financial commitment; and what the age range of the pupils is in each case.
Jun 6 2006
Contraceptive Pill 6 Jun 2006 What guidance he has given to schools since 1997 regarding the potential liability of school governors in the event of (a) a fatality, (b) stroke and (c) other adverse reaction to a pupil aged under 16 years as a direct consequence of taking the emergency hormonal contraceptive pill (i) where the drug has been supplied on school...
May 22 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: City Academies What is the projected capital cost of each of the City Academies that were announced as being in the pipeline in the press release issued on 16 March.?
May 15 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Faith Schools How many maintained faith schools have been closed in each year since 1997, broken down by faith?
May 4 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Specialist Schools How many specialist schools there are in England, broken down by specialism; and how many of such schools are electing to select up to 10 per cent. of their intake by aptitude?
Apr 24 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Trust School- What the powers of the sponsor will be in relation to trust schools; and what the equivalent powers are in relation to academies?
Mar 23 2006
Written Ministerial Statements — Education and Skills: Academies- The Secretary of State, in her response to Price Waterhouse Coopers' second annual evaluation report on the academies programme, announced proposals to align more closely investment in Academies with Building Schools for the Future (BSF).
Mar 21 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools (Religious Ethos) - What assessment has been made of the compatibility with Article 2 of Protocol 1 and Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights of circumstances where the only practical choice of school is a school with a religious ethos?
Mar 20 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Selection - What criteria will schools be able to use to select pupils for secondary education under the terms of the Education and Inspections Bill?
Mar 15 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Admissions Cod - Whether under the Education and Inspection Bill secondary schools will be able to seek reports from primary schools on (a) a child's (I) conduct, (ii) motivation and (iii) attendance and (b) on parents' attitude?
Mar 14 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Faith Schools - How many and what proportion of faith schools are (a) comprehensive, (b) secondary modern and (c) grammar schools?
Mar 13 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Banding- Which local education authorities use banding in allocating pupils for secondary education?
Mar 7 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Private Finance Initiative Contracts - How many (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in each local authority area are involved in private finance initiative contracts?
Mar 7 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Local Education Authority Funding - How much each local education authority in England has received in each year since 1997?
Mar 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Trust School- What criteria she will set to determine who will be able to form a trust school; and if she will make a statement.
Mar 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Gypsies/Travellers - What targeted programmes have been introduced to address under-performance of pupils from Gypsy and Traveller communities.
Mar 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies- How many academies are supported by organisations which incorporate or adhere to a faith or religious ethos in their (a) curricula and (b) admissions policies?
Feb 15 2006
Education and Skills: Academies- What assessment has been made of the impact of academies upon the academic performance of children from the lowest socio-economic background.
Feb 15 2006
Education and Skills: Schools for the Hearing Impaired - How many of the special schools approved to make provision for pupils with hearing impairment are schools for the deaf; and how many schools for the deaf there were in each year since 1996.
Feb 15 2006
Education and Skills: School Selection- If she will list the criteria on which maintained secondary schools may select pupils.
Feb 15 2006
Education and Skills: Grammar School- How many grammar schools have a specialism; and what proportion of pupils achieved five GCSEs A*-C including mathematics and English in grammar schools with a specialism in the last year for which figures are available.
Feb 15 2006
Education and Skills: School Selection - Factors taken into account when deciding to allow selection in schools by (a) sporting and (b) physical ability.
Feb 14 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies - To list donations received by each city academy from (a) commercial and business organisations and (b) private individuals.
Feb 14 2006
Education and Skills: Secondary schools - How many (a) community, (b) voluntary-aided, (c) voluntary-controlled and (d) foundation secondary schools there are; and what proportion has a sixth form.
Feb 8 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Admissions - If she will list the secondary schools which admit pupils on the basis of partial selection by ability criterion, broken down by local authority; and what the percentage is of pupils at each school admitted in this way.
Feb 7 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies - How many and what percentage of pupils at each academy achieved (a) five A* to C GCSE grades or equivalent, (b) five A* to C GCSE grades and (c) five A* to C GCSE grades in English and Mathematics in 2005; and what the equivalent figures were for the predecessor school of each academy in its last year of operation.
Feb 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Departmental Advertising - To list the public information advertising campaigns run by her Department in the past 12 months; and how much her Department spent on (a) newspapers and (b) television advertising for those campaigns.
Feb 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Performance - How many schools have been closed because they were deemed to be failing in each year since 1996.
Feb 2 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Local Education Authorities (Structure) - Which local education authorities have (a) moved from two tier to three tier, (b) moved from three tier to two tier, (c) reviewed their three tier structure ……
Jan 31 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Faith schools - How many new faith schools have been set up in each year since 1997?
Jan 30 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Admissions - To list the schools and academies that use banding in their admissions policies.
Jan 23 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Foundation School- How many (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools had foundation school status in each year since 1999.
Jan 10 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Specialist Schools - How many and what proportion of secondary schools are specialist schools in (a) arts, (b) business and enterprise, (c) engineering, (d) humanities, (e) language, (f) mathematics and computing, (g) music, (h) science, (i) sports and (j) technology.
Jan 9 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Foundation Schools - How many foundation schools were given notice to improve in each year since 1999.
Jan 9 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Free School Meals - To ask what proportion of pupils attending maintained (a) grammar schools and (b) comprehensive schools were eligible for free school meals in each year since 1995.
Jan 9 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Departmental Report - How much funding was received by each of the programmes aggregated under other miscellaneous programmes in table 12.2 of her Department's 2005 departmental report.
Dec 20 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Trust Schools - (1) what arrangements she plans to put in place to dispose of the assets of a trust school if such a school should close; (2) whether assets will be transferred from local authority control to the control of a trust when a trust school is set up.
Dec 19 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academs What criteria are used for the geographical distribution of academies; what part her Department plays in this; on what basis, and by whom, the schools to be designated as academies are chosen; whether local authorities have any veto on the establishment of an academy; and how many of the academies are in areas where a better schools…
Dec 19 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies On what (a) research and (b) exemplar the proposals to create (i) academy and (ii) trust schools were based; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of such schools.
Dec 14 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Closures - (1) how many primary schools have closed in England in each of the last five years; (2) how many secondary schools in England have closed in each of the last five years.
Dec 14 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Departmental Estate - What (a) land and (b) property her Department (i) owns and (ii) rents in each constituency; and if she will make a statement. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm051214/text/51214w31.htm#51214w31.html_wqn3
Dec 13 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academy Schools - At what point in establishment of a sponsored academy school the sponsor's £2 million contribution has to be paid; if she will list the academy schools which have been established; and what (a) the total committed by each sponsor, (b) the total paid by that sponsor to date, (c) the total contributed by Government to date and (d)…
Dec 13 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academy Schools (13 Dec 2005) (1) how many and what percentage of pupils at academy schools (a) received free school meals and (b) were special educational needs children (i) before and (ii) after academy status was gained; (2) how many and what proportion of special educational needs pupils (a) were at academy schools at the point they were designated as academies...
Nov 28 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Free School Meals - What proportion of children receiving free school meals achieved five A*-C grades in (a) grammar schools, (b) non-selective schools, (c) academies, (d) city technology colleges, (e) foundation schools and (f) faith schools
Nov 28 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Learning and Skills Council - What the actual expenditure was of the Learning and Skills Council in each year since its inception, broken down into (a) the categories in the grant letter of the relevant year and (b) the categories set out in the grant letter of November 2005.
Nov 28 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Consultants/Special Advisers - How many (a) consultants and (b) special advisers were employed by her Department in each year since 1997; what the cost of each was in each year; and if she will make a statement.
Nov 28 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: New Schools - how many (a) community, (b) voluntary aided, (c) voluntary controlled, (d) academy and (e) foundation schools have been opened in each of the last eight years, broken down by local education authority; and how many places there were in each school.
Nov 28 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Faith Schools - How many non-religious state (a) primary and (b) secondary schools gained faith school status in each year since 1997.
Nov 24 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills - Whether restrictions will be introduced to the freedom self-governing schools have to set their own admissions criteria under the provisions of the White Paper Higher Standards, "Better Schools for All".
Nov 24 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Finance - Whether the money previously delivered to secondary schools via the Leadership Incentive Grant will be made available to secondary schools via other budgetary mechanisms; and whether it is included in the Government's guarantee of a 4 per cent. annual funding increase.
Nov 24 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills - How many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have applied to expand since the guidance to the decision-makers that there should be a presumption in favour of expansion was promulgated.
Nov 22 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools - (1) what the Department's target is for the number of specialist schools in (a) Surrey and (b) England; (2) how many schools in (a) Surrey and (b) England have (i) applied for and (ii) been granted specialist status for each of the 10 specialisms; (3) how many specialist schools in Surrey participate in the Leading Edge Partnership scheme.
Nov 22 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools - To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what definition she uses for (a) a trust school, (b) a foundation school and (c) a voluntary aided school under the changes proposed in the White Paper "Higher Standards, Better Schools For All".
Nov 22 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies - If she will list the independently managed academies that are operational, broken down by local education authority.
Nov 21 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Teachers - What the total cost of conducting the numeracy, literacy and ICT skills tests prior to entering teaching (a) has been since their introduction and (b) was in 2004–05; and what the planned expenditure on the tests is in 2005–06.
Nov 21 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools - What capital funding her Department (a) provides and (b) facilitates for rural schools for premises expansion.
Nov 8 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Call Centres - How many call centres were run by her Department and its agencies in (a) 2003–04, (b) 2004–05 and (c) 2005–06 to date; and how many and what proportion of calls (i) were handled by an adviser, (ii) were received but abandoned and (iii) received an engaged tone.
Nov 2 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Science - How many (a) specialist science colleges and schools and (b) science academies have been established in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.
Nov 2 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Closures - How many schools have closed in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) local education authority, (b) sector and (c) size.
Oct 19 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools: Pursuant to the answer of 19 October 2005, Official Report, column 1072W when each school went into special measures; and whether she intends to make use of her powers under the Education Act 2005 to intervene in the running of each school.
Jul 18 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Admissions - how many appeals were made to the Independent School Admissions Panel for (a) primary and junior schools and (b) secondary schools for each English county in each of the last eight years.
Jul 12 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Schools Adjudicator - how many school closures have been determined by the schools adjudicator in each of the last five years for which full annual figures are available.
Jul 12 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: State Boarding Schools - how many state boarding schools there are in England; and where they are located.
Jul 11 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Academies - (1) what governance arrangements will be used for new 16 to 19 academies
Jul 6 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: New Schools - how many competitions have been held by local education authorities to find alternative providers for new schools; and what the outcome was of each;(2) what guidance has been issued to local education authorities on holding competitions for new and replacement schools.
Jul 5 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Advertising Expenditure - how much the (a) Department and (b) non-departmental bodies for which the Department is responsible has spent on advertising type in the last three years, broken down by media type.
Jun 23 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Faith Schools: how many faith schools have been established in England since 1997; and how many she expects to be established in the next five years.
Jun 22 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: City Academies: what the total amount of capital costs contributed by sponsors was to each city academy; and what proportion of the total capital costs this represents in each case.
Jun 22 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Special Schools: how many children were in each category of special school in the (a) state and (b) private sector in each of the last five years, broken down by age range.
Jun 21 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: City Academies: how many pupils in each city academy are entitled to free school meals; how many pupils in schools which formed the basis of each new academy were entitled to free school meals; and what proportion of the school's intake each figure represents in each case.
Jun 14 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Temporary Classrooms - how many temporary classrooms are in use in each local education authority.
Jun 7 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Gershon Review: what proportion of staff who have left the Department as part of the implementation of the Gershon Review (a) has taken (i) voluntary and (ii) compulsory redundancy and (b) has been transferred to employment in a non-departmental public body
Jun 7 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Playing Fields: how many school playing fields have been sold, and for what reasons, in each year since 2001.
Jun 6 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Closures: how many school closures due to falling rolls there were in each of the last five years, broken down by education authority.
May 26 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: School Repairs - what the backlog of repairs is for each local education authority?
Apr 4 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: what plans the Government have to (a) recruit more ethnic minority teachers and (b) encourage more people from ethnic minorities to become school governors
Apr 4 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: what plans the Government have to (a) recruit more ethnic minority teachers and (b) encourage more people from ethnic minorities to become school governors.
Jan 3 2005
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Dec 21 2004
Partnership for Schools - Commons Written Answers - To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the relationship is between his Department and Partnerships for Schools; and who the members of the board of Partnerships for Schools are - Stephen Twigg
Dec 20 2004
Maintained primary schools: Number of schools by religious character—position in January each year: 2000 to 2004—England
Nov 2 2004
Proportion of pupils attending state schools who are from an ethnic minority
Jul 22 2004
Funding of academies
Jul 22 2004
Number and percentage of students gaining (a) five or more and (b) no GCSEs at A* to C in (i) grammar schools, (ii) foundation schools, (iii) voluntary aided schools, (iv) voluntary controlled schools, (v) community schools, (vi) special schools and (vii) pupil referral units in (A) 2002 and (B) 2003.
Apr 29 2004
Numbers of primary schools in England closed 1997 to 2003
Apr 29 2004
Study centres set up
Apr 27 2004
Numbers of mainstream schools of a religious nature, including Church of England schools, maintained by local education authorities in England
Apr 26 2004
Directions issued to local education authorities to contract out differing ranges of functions:
Mar 10 2004
Number of school governor places in England which are vacant; percentage of capacity
Mar 9 2004
Admission arrangements of specialist schools
Mar 8 2004
Community schools closed to be replaced by schools designated with a religious character ("faith schools") since 1997 -2003, listed by LEA area.
Mar 3 2004
Bids for specialist school status made by (a) faith schools, (b) non-faith schools, (c) faith schools with a comprehensive intake, (d) non-faith schools with a comprehensive intake, (e) Church of England schools, (f) Roman Catholic schools, (g) grammar schools and (h) Roman Catholic grammar schools 2003
Mar 2 2004
Average amount of support that a specialist school receives through corporate and charitable sponsors.
Mar 2 2004
Numbers of specialist sports colleges in 2004
Mar 1 2004
Expenditure on the Excellence in Cities programme 1998-2004
Mar 1 2004
Number of schools from (a) rural and (b) urban areas applied for specialist school status in the October 2003 application round
Feb 24 2004
Specialist schools - GCSE results, numbers of designated and redesignated and funding
Feb 23 2004
Number of independent schools applying for conversion to state schools 1997-2004
Jan 15 2004
Schools applying for engineering specialist status
Jan 6 2004
Funding of academies
Jan 6 2004
Specialist schools funding by LEA 2003–04
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Jan 24 2012
DfE: National pupil projections - Future trends in pupil numbers - December 2011
Jun 22 2011
Appeals lodged by parents against non-admission to preferred school, 2009/10.
Jan 6 2011
Financial reports on Local Authority expenditure on their education and children's social care functions: 2009-10
Jan 6 2011
School Revenue Balances 2009-10
Jun 24 2010
National Pupil Projections: Future Trends in Pupil Numbers
Jun 10 2010
Admissions Appeals for maintained primary and secondary schools in England, 2008/09
May 13 2010
Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2010
Mar 18 2010
National Pupil Projections: Future Trends in Pupil Numbers
Mar 11 2010
Secondary School Applications and Offers 2010
Jan 13 2010
DCSF: GCE/Applied GCE A/AS and Equivalent Examination Results in England, 2008/09 (Revised)
May 7 2009
DCSF: Schools, Pupils and Their Characteristics: January 2009
Mar 12 2009
DCSF: Secondary School Applications and Offers
Feb 24 2009
School revenue balances 2007-08
Nov 27 2008
DCSF: Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom: 2008
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May 22 2008
DCSF: Admission Appeals for Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools in England, 2006/2007
May 22 2008
DCSF: Secondary School Applications and Offers
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Jan 17 2007
Schools and Pupils in England: January 2006 (Final) The following tables have been added: "Local Authority Cross Border Movement Matrix of School Pupils Resident in England (primary, secondary, special), January 2006 (Final)".
Jun 7 2006
School Statistics How many (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in England are (i) community, (ii) voluntary controlled, (iii) voluntary aided, (iv) foundation, (v) city technology college, (vi) academy and (vii) other; and what percentage of children in each category of school (A) are in receipt of free school meals, (B) have special educational needs...
Mar 23 2006
Schools and Pupils in England: January 2005 Cross Local Authority Border Movement of School Pupils Resident in England, January 2005 (primary, secondary, special and secondary sixth form).
Oct 20 2005
Schools and Pupils in England: January 2005 (Final) reports information about schools and pupils for the academic year 2004/05, collected in January 2005. It replaces the Statistical Volume "Schools in England" and updates provisional information published in the Statistical First Release "Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in England" published in April 2005
Sep 28 2005
Schools and Pupils in England: January 2005 (Final) reports information about schools and pupils for the academic year 2004/05, collected in January 2005. It replaces the Statistical Volume "Schools in England" and updates provisional information published in the Statistical First Release "Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in England" published in April 2005. Most of the information presented in this SFR has been collected via the Annual Schools' Census. It reports national trends on the number of schools and pupils in England. It gives findings for the number of pupils by age, gender, free school meal eligibility, ethnicity and first language together with a range of class size information.
Mar 31 2005
Schedule for the Publication of National Statistics April 2005 to March 2006 The schedule lists the statistical publications (First Releases, Bulletins and Volumes) to be published in each of the next six months and provides a provisional programme for the following six months.
Sep 30 2004
An Investigation into Queries that School Offices Receive from Parents and Carers Research Information A small scale study to assess the number of queries that schools offices receive, consisting of a number of school offices completing logs of the type queries and requests they receive from parents, be conducted.
Jul 29 2004
DfES Partners Market Research Report Research Information This study explores the impact of DfES's partnership framework and measures partners perceptions of the effectiveness of their relationship with the DfES
Jul 29 2004
Public Perception of Education: Summary Report Research Information The survey measures various aspects of public perception of state education, from nursery to adult education. This report summarises the 2003 findings and, where relevant, makes comparisons with earlier surveys.
Jul 13 2004
School Meals in Secondary Schools in England Research Information
Apr 1 2004
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Nov 15 2011
Education Bill receives Royal Assent
Nov 14 2011
The first ever special and alternative provision Free Schools have been approved to open from September 2012
Oct 20 2011
Academies see double the increase of other maintained schools at GCSE.
Sep 12 2011
Freedom over length of school day extended to all schools.
Sep 7 2011
Opening of first twenty-four Free Schools, September 2011.
Sep 5 2011
Free schools: Oversubscription and relation to areas of deprivation.
Sep 5 2011
Increased number of under-performing schools becoming sponsored academies.
Aug 1 2011
Free Schools update
Jul 5 2011
Four academies opening every school day; 801 academies now open – more than a fifth of all secondary schools
Jul 5 2011
Free schools update
Jun 20 2011
Number of Free School applications for opening September 2012.
Jun 3 2011
New Academy application figures (updates 10/05/11)
May 27 2011
New Admissions Code
May 24 2011
Schools to get more power to manage teachers
May 23 2011
New plans to allow schools to employ overseas teachers more easily
May 10 2011
New academy application figures
Dec 13 2010
Schools financial settlement - education spending
Sep 1 2010
Number of schools converting to academy status, Sept 2010
Jun 2 2010
Total number of schools who have applied for academy freedoms as programme is expanded
Mar 29 2010
Funding to help primary and secondary schools become Accredited School Providers or to take part in Accredited Schools Groups programme, 2010 - 11
Sep 7 2009
New Academy Sponsorship Arrangements, Overall schools capital investment and progress on Building Schools for the Future
Jun 30 2009
Development of four new academies
Jun 16 2009
Partnership for Schools to manage all school building programmes
Jun 15 2009
New National Trust Challenges and new academies confirmed
May 20 2009
Information regarding the new Schools Recruitment Service.
May 7 2009
Report on school accountability and testing published by Government expert group.
Mar 12 2009
Percentage of successful secondary school applications and offers, 2009
Jan 19 2009
Revised guidance on children missing education and a review of home education is launched.
Jan 15 2009
Plans for National Challenge schools agreed.
Jun 18 2008
Number of schools achieving specialist status
Apr 9 2008
115 more schools have been accepted onto the Trust School programme
Mar 19 2008
Number of schools and colleges offering Diplomas in September 2009
May 14 2007
200 Trust school pathfinders and early adopters
May 14 2007
Audit of new and improved buildings in all local authorities
Apr 3 2007
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Mar 13 2007
DfES: Forum To Boost Science, Technology, Engineering And Maths Education
Mar 7 2007
DfES: Consultation On School, Early Years And 14-16 Funding 2008-11
Feb 23 2007
DfES: Academies On Track To Give Value For Money Says NAO
Nov 8 2006
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE NEW OFSTED BOARD
Oct 31 2006
DfES: JOHNSON ANNOUNCES THE FIRST NATIONAL SKILLS ACADEMIES READY TO GO LIVE
Oct 12 2006
DFES - LIST 99 AND CHILDCARE DISQUALIFICATION REGULATIONS – CONSULTATION
Sep 21 2006
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Revised arrangements to teachers’ and head teachers’ performance management that will support ongoing professional development and help to secure better outcomes for pupils
May 9 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Pupil Exclusion - How much has each local education authority spent on (a) excluded pupils and (b) pupils in (i) pupil referral units, (ii) behaviour support implementation programmes, (iii) inclusion, administration, assessment and co-ordination programmes, (iv) behaviour support plans and (v) other programmes intended to avoid exclusion of pupils
Mar 8 2006
OFSTED REPORTS PRAISE ACADEMIES FOR RAISING STANDARDS IN DEPRIVED AREAS Results and behaviour improve as Academies meet community and personal needs
Dec 14 2005
DFES 14-19 REFORM: IMPLEMENTATION PLAN The Government sets out detailed plans for driving forward radical reform in secondary education, with a new entitlement ...
Dec 13 2005
LAUNCH OF GUIDANCE FOR MAJOR EXPANSION OF SEN STRAND OF THE SPECIALIST SCHOOLS PROGRAMME Schools Minister Andrew Adonis launched guidance materials for special schools who wish to apply for SEN specialist school
Nov 21 2005
DFES: INVESTIGATING ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE: EFFECTIVELY, FAIRLY, PROMPTLY New guidance for schools and other education establishments, Local Authorities, the CPS and the Police, on arrangements to speed up the process of dealing with allegations of abuse against teachers and support staff.
Sep 20 2005
Speech by David Bell HMCI - What makes a college successful?
Jun 27 2005
DfES Jacqui Smith, Minister for Schools, today announced a new round of 194 specialist schools bringing the total to 2382.
Feb 24 2005
Peer Review of Measures of Education Output. The Department of Education and Skills has been working closely with the Atkinson Review in the development of improved measures of output for education. On the advice of the Department's Chief Statistician we today announce a peer review of measures which have been developed.
Dec 16 2004
More local education authorities (LEAs) are providing a better service than ever before. The latest education star ratings published today.
Secretary of State for Education speech on reform of underperforming schools, acceleration of academy programme and change in performance measures at GCSE level.
Key Reports
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Dec 20 2011
Principles and methodology of funding for Free Schools to open 2012/13.
Nov 22 2011
The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2010/11 (The OFSTED Annual Report).
Oct 28 2011
Annual Report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator.
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) deals with issues over the interpretation and application of legislation and guidance on school admissions. It does not deal with complaints from parents whose child has not been offered a place at a particular school. Their annual report outlines the work carried out by the office during 2010-11.
Jun 21 2011
OFSTED survey evaluating the use of off-site alternative provision by a small sample of schools and pupil referral units.
May 18 2011
An OFSTED report on school governance based on a survey of several schools
Mar 23 2011
A DFE review of research on school governance
Nov 4 2010
An OFSTED report on improving outcomes for children and young people through partnership in Children's Trusts
Sep 10 2010
The National Audit Office report says that many academies are performing impressively in delivering the Academies Programme's intended improvements. Most are achieving greater rates of improvement in academic attainment than their predecessor schools. However it makes the point that 'It cannot be assumed, however, that academies' performance to date is an accurate predictor of how the model will perform when generalised more widely. Existing academies have been primarily about school improvement in deprived areas, while new academies will often be operating in very different educational and social settings." .
Aug 13 2010
OFSTED survey of 10 local authorities working well in children's services
Nov 23 2009
Annual Report of Chief Inspector of schools is wide ranging study based on inspections of the preceding year and includes many aspects of the work of primary. secondary and special schools and FE colleges
Oct 22 2009
An OFTED review requested by the Secretary of State to establish the fitness for purpose of the regulations that registered independent faith schools are required to meet, and their contribution to preparing children and young people for life in Britain
Sep 1 2009
An implementation plan for the Learning Behaviour report by Sir Alan Steer
Apr 30 2009
An OFSTED review of the work of local authorities on their responsibilities for children and young people
Apr 30 2009
An OFSTED assessment of how targets were met by local authorities on the five indicators of Every Child Matters - Being healthy, Staying safe,Enjoying and achieving, Making a positive contribution and Achieving economic well-being in 2008.
Apr 15 2009
Final report from Sir Alan Steer on Learning Behaviour
Nov 12 2008
Lessons from outstanding providers, including schools identified by Ofsted, 2006/07
Nov 1 2008
Annual Report of Schools Adjudicator 2007 -8
Decisions on school admissions and school organization
Nov 1 2007
Annual Report of the Schools Adjudicator 2006 -7
Decisions on school admissions and school organization
Oct 17 2007
Ofsted annual report 2006/07
Dec 4 2006
Government Response to the consultation on the Sustainable Schools strategy
Nov 1 2006
Annual Report of the Schools Adjudicator 2005 - 6
Decisions on school admissions and school organization
Nov 1 2006
Ofsted: Annual performance assessments (APA) for 102 local authorities.
Sep 28 2006
Schools and Pupils in England: January 2006 (Final) It gives findings for the number of pupils by age, gender, free school meal eligibility, ethnicity and first language together with a range of class size information.
Sep 11 2006
Ofsted: Race Equality Scheme 2006 The new race equality scheme sets out the methods by which Ofsted aims to eliminate discrimination, foster good race relations and promote equality of opportunity.
Aug 31 2006
School Destinations of Secondary School Pupils Resident in London Local Authorities, 2006 - Local Authority and school level information showing, for each London borough, the maintained mainstreamed secondary schools (including middle deemed), City Technology Colleges and Academics attended by secondary school pupils resident in London in the academic year 2005/2006.
Jul 13 2006
Ofsted report: Inclusion: does it matter where pupils are taught? Provision and outcomes in different settings for pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities Examines the factors that promote good outcomes across a range of different provision for pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Mar 6 2006
National Curriculum Assessment, GCSE and Equivalent Attainment and Post-16 Attainment by Pupil Characteristics, in England 2005 This provides 2005 information on Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 National Curriculum Assessments, GCSE and equivalent achievements and post-16 attainment of young people in England by different pupil characteristics, specifically gender, ethnicity, eligibility for free school meals (FSM), special education needs (SEN) and English as an additional language (EAL).
Feb 28 2006
The Education and Inspections Bill 2006 A summary outline of the bill from the DfES with links to the full text and related government documents and statements
Dec 14 2005
Ofsted: The Secondary National Strategy: An evaluation of the fifth year
Dec 14 2005
Ofsted: Primary National Strategy: An evaluation of its impact in primary schools 2004/05
Nov 24 2005
Education and Training Expenditure since 1995-96 includes detailed central government and local authority education and training outturn in England for the financial years 1995-96 to 2004-05.
Nov 4 2005
DfES: New Relationship with Schools: Evaluation of Trial Local Authorities and Schools
Nov 1 2005
Annual Report of the Schools Adjudicator 2004 -5
Decisions on school admissions and school organization
Sep 9 2005
SACREs and self evaluation: a guide. This guide to Standing Advisory Councils for Religious Education (SACREs) and self-evaluation is designed to help individual SACREs evaluate their role and, in particular, to consider their impact on pupils’ learning.
Aug 18 2005
School Destinations of Secondary School Pupils Resident in London Education Authorities January 2004. Local Education Authority and school level information showing, for each London LEA, the school destinations of secondary school pupils resident in London.
Jul 7 2005
Ofsted: Pupils’ satisfaction with their school. The 2004 Children Act emphasises the importance of ensuring that children’s happiness, welfare and achievement are central to the services provided for them. This paper considers pupils’ satisfact