Sentence examples for Independent education from inspiring English sources

Independent education (both day and boarding) produces better-than-average academic results: they teach only 7% of English pupils but supply 38% of those gaining three or more A grades in the A-level exams taken at age 18.Yet some boarding schools are struggling.

When Dr. Hamer joined the Board of Education in July 1998, he was an independent education consultant, having left a job with the educational publishing division of Simon & Schuster six months earlier.

"Demand for independent education is much higher than the uptake.

Yet that is where much of the growth in independent education has come from.

The opportunities open to those of independent education for wider enrichment should be available to all, regardless of school.

Dr. Van Amburg was committed to making independent education accessible to children who could not otherwise afford it.

Sean Robert Gallagher, senior analyst for Eduventures, an independent education-research firm, was a bit more cautious about the China contract.

But Whitehall's grip would be prised off many levers by an Education Freedom Act, to ban politicians from meddling in the day-to-day running of schools, and the creation of a fully independent Education Standards Authority.

Under the package of reforms, known collectively as Tomorrow's Schools, the central Ministry of Education continues to fund schools, draft national curriculum guidelines and operate an accountability system under which teams from an independent Education Review Office visit schools.

In 1984, Dr. Joan Davis Ratteray founded the Institute for Independent Education in Washington DC to provide technical assistance to independent community-based schools, especially those owned and operated by African Americans and located primarily in urban areas.

Mr Laws called for an independent Education Standards Authority, which would: Control curriculum content and prevent short-term political changes.