Call a school "specialist", and you have genuine specialism.
The document also makes it clear that, provided a new sixth form would not require additional capital, any school, specialist or not, that meets the high-performing criterion will enjoy the same presumption of permission to proceed.
However, the referral process is not straightforward, and is recognized as being a complex process dependent upon the patient (e.g., age, gender, socioeconomic status, disease stage), the practitioner (e.g., age, gender), and community-level factors (e.g., urban/rural, presence of a medical school, specialist supply) [ 10, 15].
On-the-job training for teachers, known as professional development, encompasses everything from day-long seminars, coaching provided by in-school specialists, courses in subjects like math and reading, and teachers working with one another to improve their skills.
Since the programme's inception, 250 primary health and pre-school specialists have provided information and counselling to 10,000 parents.
Yet although, overall, the number of secondary schools teaching languages at GCSE continues to fall, grammar schools, specialist schools and independent schools have maintained language provision.
Thanks to the reforms of Andrew Adonis and Michael Gove, an extraordinary diversity of schools is emerging – faith schools, specialist academies, free schools, community schools, foundation schools.
Faith schools, specialist provision for children with autism and a "dementia-friendly" primary in Devon are among the latest wave of free schools to be announced by David Cameron.
For a quarter of a century, Tory and Labour ministers created academies, grant maintained schools, specialist schools, city technology colleges and free schools, spattered across the country, a Whitehall education empire rivalling but always more expensive than local council schools.
