Sentence examples for surplus of places from inspiring English sources

An overall surplus of places could mean half-empty faith or single-sex schools while comprehensives are bursting at the seams.

An analysis by the National Union of Teachers earlier this year found that in a fifth of the areas where free schools have opened or are due to open in September there is at least a 10% surplus of places.

In a fifth of the areas where free schools either have opened or are due to open this September, there is at least a 10% surplus of places, analysis by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has found.

In Lathom, Lancashire, the Maharishi free school, where pupils receive what is described as a "consciousness-based education", expanded when it converted from the private sector to become a free school, despite the government's assessment that "the surplus of places among the five schools within a mile of Maharishi varies from 9%-239%-23%

The LGA wants a ban on any new free schools opening where there is a surplus of places.

But compounding the challenge is that the pattern of population growth is very uneven - with a surplus of places in some parts of the country.

Free schools are being opened in parts of England where there are surpluses of places, a teachers' union says.

In some parts of the country the shortage of primary places and the surplus of secondary places are particularly stark.

Confronted by Pat Glass, the Labour MP for North West Durham, with figures highlighting areas where new secondary free schools had been approved despite a surplus of secondary places and a shortage of primary places, Laws said parents and not the government would be the judges.

But National Union of Teachers leader Christine Blower says free schools are an entirely unnecessary expense at a time when there is a chronic shortage of school places around parts of the country because many are being opened where there is already a surplus of school places.

In Suffolk there is a 28% surplus of secondary places.