Sentence examples for chances of pupils from inspiring English sources

Gove said he was determined to improve the life chances of pupils because, as an adopted child, he himself had been given "a second chance".

A new generation of academy boarding schools would be established by a Tory government to improve the chances of pupils from deprived backgrounds, the party said last night.

Labour county councillor Sonia Barker, who used to teach at Benjamin Britten, said: "Ofsted inspected the council and said its learning improvement service was ineffective and damaging the life chances of pupils.

Without that, the chance of pupils learning anything is pretty much lost.

While he and Clegg agree on many things – such as the "pupil premium" to boost the chances of poorer pupils and measures to improve social mobility – on several fundamentals they are at odds.

The government has frequently repeated its commitment to protecting funding for schools and to improving the life chances of disadvantaged pupils.

The plans have drawn fierce opposition from, among others, teaching unions, who say the concept risks writing off the chances of many pupils.

Their study analysed how far Brighton and Hove's lottery admissions system had improved the chances of poor pupils attending top schools, and who the main winners and losers were when places were allocated randomly.

"Sir Michael's report is right to stress the importance of rooting out the pernicious culture of low expectations where it exists as this will have a damaging effect on the life chances of hundreds of pupils".

In Mumbai it raised the chances of fourth-year pupils grasping first-year maths by 11.9 percentage points.

Barack Obama's education secretary has made a striking endorsement of coalition plans to reform schools, outlining areas of shared vision on improving the chances of the poorest pupils and removing failing teachers.