"We're applying all the contractual terms, and those include deductions for non-availability [of the schools]." With the council now preparing for a major compensation claim against the PFI firm involved, the Guardian has established that the true lifetime cost of the contract will reach £529m in cash terms by 2032 – nearly 50% more than the original, publiclydeclared costing of £360m.
Due to limited availability, most of the schools selected were those within 50 km radius away from the district headquarters.
The assessment was delivered as either a computer-based test or a paper-and-pencil test, depending on the availability of computers in the schools.
However, this approach was not possible because of the limited availability of the children during school hours.
Thus policies aimed to stimulate migration can be effective only if they are part of policy bundles aimed to improve living conditions in poor regions, for example by improving the availability of jobs, housing, schools, and the quality of the environment.
Yet, despite the availability of jobs and schools, the recent trend of people moving out of new towns gradually turns these areas into marginalized communities clustered with poor people, alienated within and in a sense excluded from the city landscape altogether.
Money took into account factors like job growth, affordable housing, health care, safety and the availability of good schools.
In other words, we need not only to address the availability of schools in disaster situations, but also the barriers to accessing those schools.
An additional consideration was the availability of schools that could support the intervention but that had not been involved in other health interventions (see box 1).
Using data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the study finds no association between uniformity of curricula at the national level (standardization) and the gender gap in STEM occupational expectations; in contrast, the availability of more school types at the secondary level (stratification) is associated with a larger gender gap in STEM occupational expectations.
Public schools in South Africa are categorised into five quintiles based on the availability of resources, and schools in this sample all fall into the lowest three quintiles all declared to be "no fee schools" and financed by government funding.
