Search Results

1-9 of 9 results for subject:Schools

Show detailed: On Off

Results: 10 20 50 100

Sort by: Newest first Oldest first

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list schools which have applied for exemptions from statutory requirements relating to innovation under the Education Act 2002, giving in each case (a) the nature of the exemption sought and (b) the outcome of the application.

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 October 2003

For answer on

27 October 2003

Answered on

27 October 2003

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list schools which have applied for exemptions from statutory requirements relating to innovation under the Education Act 2002, giving in each case (a) the nature of the exemption sought and (b) the outcome of the application. [133941] Mr. Miliband: The Department plans to lay before Parliament its first annual report under section 5 of the Education Act 2002 on 30 October 2003. The report will outline details of the three applications that the Secretary of State has received during the first academic year of the Power and will detail for each application the nature of the exemption sought and the outcome of the application. These have been: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Application Innovation facilitated Relevant Legislation Details of the order Date that the order was granted by the Secretary made of State Langley Junior School, The order permitted the Changing of the School Statutory Instrument 11 December 2002 Pendeen Crescent, Southway, school to extend the Session Times 2002 No. 3063 Langley Plymouth PL6 6QS length of the school day Regulations Junior School (Change to mid academic year, School Session Times) rather than have to wait Order 2002 until the beginning of the new school year. The purpose of the innovation was to provide extra curricular activities for pupils on a Wednesday afternoon freeing up time for teachers to work on planning and preparation, and drawing up education plans for individual pupils. Grinling Gibbons Primary The order permitted the Changing of the School Statutory Instrument 12 March 2003 School, Clyde Street, school to extend the Session Times 2003 No. 716 The Deptford, London SE8 5LW length of the school day Regulations Grinling Gibbons Primary mid academic year, School (Change to School rather than have to wait Session Times) Order until the beginning of 2003 the new school year. The purpose of the innovation was to provide extra curricular activities for pupils on a Wednesday afternoon freeing up time for teachers to work on planning and preparation, and drawing up education plans for individual pupils. Norton College, Langton The order permitted the Changing of the School Statutory Instrument 2 July 2003 Road, Norton, Malton, N school to change the Session Times 2003 No. 1671 The Norton Yorkshire YO17 9PT timings of the school Regulations College (Change to day without the School Session Times) requirements set out in Order 2003 regulations: to give the minimum of three months notice to parents; and to consult parents at a meeting (instead parents were consulted by correspondence). The order facilitated the college's plan to end the school day one hour early on alternate Wednesdays from September 2003, allowing staff to have a dedicated two-hour period once a forthnight for planning, preparation, assessment, and to hold meetings. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. As of 22 October 2003 two further applications have been received by the Department. These are currently being processed. Details are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Applicant Details of exemption, relaxation or Relevant Legislation modification of existing educational legislation sought Elloughton Primary School, Stockbridge Road, Seeking exemption from some elements of The Education (National Curriculum (KS3 Elloughton, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire the KS2 SATs whilst replacing them with Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order HU15 1HN ongoing teacher assessment procedures 2003 The Cardinal Wiseman School, Greenford Road, To deliver the National Curriculum over The Education (School Day and School Year) Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 9AW four extended days freeing up Fridays to (England) Regulations 1999 offer targeted activities. _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Legislation

Education Act 2002

Date

27 October 2003

Reference

133941; 412 c72-4W;412 c78-80W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what criteria are used in determining an application for disposal of school playing fields, as to whether playing field provision and curriculum requirements at the school and other schools in the area will be met.

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 February 2002

For answer on

7 March 2002

Answered on

7 March 2002

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what criteria are used in determining an application for disposal of school playing fields, as to whether playing field provision and curriculum requirements at the school and other schools in the area will be met. [40299] John Healey: Applications to the Secretary of State to dispose of school playing fields are assessed against three main criteria. These are: (i) schools' needs: that playing field provision and curriculum requirements at the school making the disposal, and at other schools in the local area, will be met; (ii) community needs: that community use of school playing fields is taken into account, with alternative facilities made available if necessary; and (iii) finance: that any sale proceeds are re-invested to provide new or improved sports facilities at schools, or are used otherwise to help raise standards by providing better educational facilities. The criteria are set out in the Department's Guidance 0580/2001: "The Protection of School Playing Fields and Land for City Academies". The criteria enable the Secretary of State to take into account the team game playing field provision at other local schools. This is to ensure that where there are surplus fields at one school, other local schools are given the opportunity to use those surplus fields. As part of the schools' needs criterion, applicants are asked to say what impact the proposed disposal will have on the curriculum, and to demonstrate clearly how the curriculum will continue to be met if consent is given. The School Playing Fields Advisory Panel provides advice on the extent to which applications meet the published criteria.

Date

7 March 2002

Reference

40299; 381 c497-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answers of 25th February, Official Report, 380 c730-34W and 27th February, Ref 33633, what the proceeds of sale were for each playing field development application approved by the Secretary of State since 1998; and what (a) sports...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 February 2002

For answer on

7 March 2002

Answered on

7 March 2002

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answers of 25 February 2002, Official Report, columns 730-34W and 27 February 2002, Ref. 33633, what the proceeds of sale were for each playing field development application approved by the Secretary of State since 1998; and what (a) sports and (b) education facilities those proceeds were used to finance. [40382] John Healey: The information requested in respect of the proceeds arising from the sale of school sports pitches is shown in the following table. Use of proceeds for approved applications to sell school sports pitch areas _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Local education authority School Closed or closing Estimated proceeds (£) Use of proceeds Barnet Ashmole No 8,650,000 Teaching accommodation; all-weather pitch Bedfordshire Ashton St. Peter VA No 100,000 School consolidation Bedfordshire Silver Jubilee middle Yes 72,000 Teaching accommodation Birmingham Broadway No 900,000 Improve pitches; new clubhouse and changing facilities Bolton St. James's CE No 800,000 Sports facilities Bristol Monks Park secondary No 2,200,000 Sports hall, all-weather pitch. Capital works at other schools Buckinghamshire Bellfield first and Yes 468,000 Education capital middle programme Buckinghamshire Downley middle Yes 2,500,000 Education capital programme Buckinghamshire Heights first Yes 1,350,000 Education capital programme Buckinghamshire Terriers county first Yes 650,000 Education capital programme Calderdale Brooksbank No 1,038,000 Sports hall Cheshire Brookside county infant Yes 83,000 School amalgamation Cheshire Colshaw CP No 75,000 Nursery accommodation Cheshire Manor Park infant Yes 225,000 School consolidation Cheshire St. James CE junior No Payment in kind Teaching accommodation Cheshire Westlands high Yes 3,100,000 Teaching accommodation; pitches Croydon Haling Manor high No 3,000,000 Teaching accommodation Derbyshire Noel Baker community No 18,000 Changing facilities Derbyshire Pingle No 363,000 Improve pitches Derbyshire Western Mere Yes 200,000 Education capital programme Devon Highweek primary No 150,000 Teaching accommodation; pitches Dorset Fosters Yes 1,500,000 Improve pitches; new schools Durham The Avenue comprehensive Yes 32,600 Education capital programme Durham Westwood primary Yes 6,520 Education capital programme Essex Moulsham high No 1,000,000 Improve pitches; teaching accommodation Essex Oakview special No 1,000,000 Teaching accommodation Essex Tabor high No 3,000,000 School consolidation Essex The Stanway No 7,500,000 Improve sports facilities; teaching accommodation Gloucestershire The Catholic school of No 900,000 All-weather pitch; St. Gregory the Great teaching accommodation Halton Ashley special No 50,000 Sleeping accommodation for adults with learning difficulties Hammersmith and Fulham Gibbs Green special No 400,000 All-weather pitch Havering Frances Bardsley for No 6,850,000 Sports hall; all-weather girls pitch; consolidate school sites Kent Allhallows first Yes 75,000 Education capital programme Kent St. Thomas' special Yes 480,000 Education capital programme Lancashire Baines high No 315,000 Sports hall Lancashire St. Richards RC high Yes 1,000,000 Sports hall; education capital programme Lancashire St. Thomas Aquinas RC Yes 225,000 Education capital high programme Leeds Oakwood primary No Payment in kind Teaching accommodation Leeds Wetherby high No 720,000 All-weather pitch; sports hall Liverpool Childwall comprehensive No 2,500,000 New school; sports hall; improve pitches Milton Keynes Castles first Yes 480,000 Consolidate school sites Milton Keynes Denbigh Yes 5,000,000 Education capital programme Norfolk Redgate middle No 175,000 Sports hall; teaching accommodation North Tyneside St. Mary's Roman No 95,000 Grass playing fields; Catholic playground North Yorkshire Settle CE primary No Payment in kind New school Northamptonshire John Lea secondary Yes 4,000,000 Education capital programme Northumberland Gallowhill Hall special Yes 5,850 Teaching accommodation Northumberland St. Benet Biscop RC No 1,350,018 Teaching accommodation; aided high improve pitches Nottinghamshire Manor comprehensive No 140,000 Sports hall Oxfordshire Wallingford No 3,700,000 School consolidation Peterborough The King's No 1,000,000 Sports hall; all-weather pitch Rochdale Middleton technology No 400,000 Sports hall Rochdale Spring Hill high No 300,000 Sports hall Shropshire Lower Grove Yes 600,000 School amalgamation Staffordshire Sir Graham Balfour high No 1,700,000 New school; sports hall; improve pitches Surrey Banstead county junior No 40,000 Education capital and St. Anne's RC programme primary Surrey Boxgrove primary No Payment in kind School consolidation Surrey Merland Rise CP No 1,608,000 Education capital programme Surrey Okewood C of E Yes 10,000 Education capital programme Surrey Park Mead junior No 550,000 Grass pitches;teaching accommodation Surrey Rosebery No 1,400,000 All-weather pitch; sports hall Tameside Egerton Park high No Payment in kind Sports hall Telford and Wrekin Blessed Robert Johnson No 300,000 Sports hall Wakefield Kinsley first Yes 55,000 Education capital programme Wakefield South Elmsall middle Yes 50,000 Education capital programme Walsall Beacon Yes 2,000,000 Teaching accommodation Walsall St. Thomas More Catholic No 3,100,000 School consolidation comprehensive Warwickshire Attleborough first Yes 245,000 Consolidate school sites Warwickshire Binley Woods first Yes 800,000 Consolidate school sites Warwickshire Exhall first Yes 300,000 Consolidate school sites Warwickshire Marie Corelli Yes 2,000,000 New school Warwickshire Stratford-upon-Avon high Yes 1,000,000 New school West Sussex Hazelwick No 2,945,000 Teaching accommodation; all-weather pitch Wigan Hindley Borsdane Brook Yes 500,000 Consolidate school sites special Wigan Orrell Holgate primary No 600,000 Education capital programme Wigan Rose Hill special Yes 500,000 Consolidate school sites Wigan Tyldesley Highfield Yes 380,000 Consolidate school sites special Wiltshire Castle Combe primary Yes 10,000 Education capital programme Wolverhampton Aldersley No 2,387,500 Teaching accommodation Worcestershire Callowbrook first Yes 2,000 Education capital programme _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. `Sports pitch' means areas of open grassed land which are equal to, or larger than, the Football Association's recommended area for games played by under-10s, that is 2,000m{2} , and which have a configuration making them suitable for sports pitches (whether they are so laid out or not). 2. The table excludes applications withdrawn by the applicant and applications where schools would retain the same, or a better, level of access to the same sports pitch or to an equivalent sports pitch. 3. The table includes applications in respect of foundation and voluntary schools considered under Schedule 22 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 since 1 September 1999. 4. Prior to July 2001, local authorities were not required to specify what sports or education facilities were to be financed from proceeds of sale. It was sufficient for them to give an undertaking that any proceeds of sale would be allocated to their schools' capital programme. A requirement to provide details of the sports or education projects to be funded from sale proceeds was introduced by the revised guidance published in July 2001.

Date

7 March 2002

Reference

40382; 381 c498-500W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many applications for permission to develop on school playing fields have been (a) submitted to her Department, (b) approved and (c) rejected since the new scrutiny arrangements were introduced in July 2001. - Inc figures. (Holding answer 1 March...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 March 2002

Reference

39555; 381 c249W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

(Pursuant to reply on 25.02.2002 at 380 c730-4W) To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list applications made to her Department in the last three years for consent to allow development on school playing fields giving in each case (a) the outcome of the...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 February 2002

Reference

33633; 380 c1297-300W;380 c1299-302W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list applications made to her Department in the last three years for consent to allow development on school playing fields giving in each case (a) the outcome of the application, (b) what steps were taken to ascertain...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

31 January 2002

For answer on

25 February 2002

Answered on

25 February 2002

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list applications made to her Department in the last three years for consent to allow development on school playing fields giving in each case (a) the outcome of the application, (b) what steps were taken to ascertain whether adequate sports facilities would remain if permission were granted and (c) where consent was given, what assurances were secured as to how proceeds of sale would be used. [33633] Mr. Timms: Although the Department does not collect information in the form requested, the following table lists applications to dispose of areas equal to, or larger than, a sports pitch, together with their outcome. Before October 1998, there was nothing to prevent a local authority selling a school playing field if it wanted to. Section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 was introduced in October 1998 to stop the indiscriminate sale of school playing fields. Local authorities and governing bodies of all maintained schools are now required to obtain the Secretary of State's consent before disposing of playing fields or any part of a playing field. Applications to dispose, or change the use, of school playing fields are assessed against the following criteria: (a) schools' needs: that playing field provision and curriculum requirements at the school making the disposal, and at other schools in the local area, will be met; (b) community needs: that community use of a school's playing fields is taken into account, with alternative facilities made available if necessary; (c) finance: that any sale proceeds are re-invested to provide new or improved sports facilities at schools, or are used to help to raise standards by providing better educational facilities. Only those applications that meet the criteria are approved. Since July 2001, all applications have been scrutinised by the independent School Playing Fields Advisory Panel to make sure that they conform to the published criteria. The Panel comprises representatives from the National Playing Fields Association, the Central Council of Physical Recreation, the education organisation Learning through Landscapes, the National Association of Head Teachers and the Local Government Association. Applications to dispose of school sports pitches which have been approved by the Secretary of State _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Local education authority School Date applied Barnet Ashmole School 15 December 1998 Bedfordshire Silver Jubilee Middle School 30 April 1999 Bedfordshire Ashton St. Peter VA School 29 September 2000 Birmingham Broadway School 11 June 2001 Blackpool Collegiate High School 13 December 1999 Bolton St. James's CofE School 24 July 1998 Bristol Monks Park Secondary School 28 October 1998 Buckinghamshire Bellfield First and Middle Schools 22 February 1999 Buckinghamshire Terriers County First School 10 May 1999 Buckinghamshire Downley Middle School 12 January 2000 Buckinghamshire Heights First School 12 January 2000 Calderdale Brooksbank School 1 July 1998 Cheshire St. James CofE Junior School 30 November 1998 Cheshire Colshaw CP School 30 June 1999 Cheshire Westlands High School 17 November 1999 Cheshire Manor Park Infant School 27 November 2000 Cheshire Brookside County Infant School 5 February 2001 Croydon Haling Manor High School 4 January 1999 Derbyshire Noel Baker Community School 2 November 1998 Derbyshire Western Mere School 2 February 1999 Derbyshire Pingle School 26 July 2000 Devon Highweek Primary School 17 August 1999 Dorset Fosters School 7 December 1998 Dudley Colley Lane Primary School 11 October 2001 Dudley Summerhill Secondary School 11 October 2001 Durham The Avenue Comprehensive School 19 May 1999 Durham Westwood Primary School 31 July 2000 Essex The Stanway School 17 November 1998 Essex Moulsham High School 18 January 1999 Essex Oakview Special School 10 April 2000 Essex Tabor High School 29 January 2001 Gloucestershire Churchdown School 3 December 1997 Gloucestershire The Catholic School of St. Gregory the 26 July 1999 Great Gloucestershire Oxstalls Community School 25 November 1999 Halton Ashley Special School 6 November 1998 Hammersmith and Fulham Gibbs Green Special School 8 March 1999 Hammersmith and Fulham Burlington Danes School 16 March 1999 Havering Frances Bardsley School for Girls 13 August 1999 Kent St. Thomas' Special School 12 May 1999 Kent St. Simon Stock School 13 December 1999 Kent Allhallows Primary School 12 July 2001 Knowsley Sylvester School 12 August 1999 Lancashire St. Richards RC High School 15 December 1998 Lancashire St. Thomas Acquinas RC High School 5 February 1999 Lancashire Baines High School 15 November 2000 Leeds Lawnswood School 21 November 2000 Leeds Oakwood Primary School 21 November 2000 Leeds Roundhay School 21 November 2000 Leeds Wetherby High School 19 September 2001 Liverpool Childwall Comprehensive School 9 April 2001 Milton Keynes Denbigh School 16 November 1998 Milton Keynes Castles First School 6 August 1999 Norfolk Redgate Middle School 12 April 2000 North-East Lincs Hereford Technology College 13 November 2000 North Tyneside St. Mary's Roman Catholic School 22 December 1998 North Yorkshire Settle CE Primary School 20 November 1998 Northamptonshire John Lea Secondary School 14 August 2000 Northumberland St. Benet Biscop RC Aided High School 5 February 1999 Northumberland Gallowhill Hall Special School 18 February 2000 Nottinghamshire Manor Comprehensive School 14 April 2000 Nottinghamshire Lincoln Street Infant School 14 July 2000 Oldham Kaskenmoor Secondary School 29 October 1999 Oxfordshire Wallingford School 16 June 2000 Peterborough The King's School 8 May 1998 Peterborough Deacons School 28 July 1998 Peterborough The King's School 27 September 2000 Rochdale Spring Hill High School 7 May 1999 Rochdale Middleton Technology School 28 March 2001 Sefton Litherland Moss County Primary School 22 March 1999 Shropshire Lower Grove School 2 February 2001 Somerset King Arthur's Comprehensive School 24 March 1999 Somerset Ladymead Comprehensive School 6 April 1999 Staffordshire Sir Graham Balfour High School 25 June 1999 Surrey Rosebery School 6 January 1998 Surrey Okewood District CE School 30 November 1998 Surrey Merland Rise CP School 8 January 1999 Surrey Banstead County Junior School and St. 27 May 1999 Anne's RC Primary School Surrey Park Mead Junior School 8 March 2000 Surrey Boxgrove Primary School 13 April 2000 Tameside Egerton Park High School 17 January 2000 Telford and Wrekin Blessed Robert Johnson School 26 March 1999 Wakefield South Elmsall Middle School 10 December 1998 Wakefield Kinsley First School 13 January 1999 Wakefield Kinsley First School 30 July 1999 Walsall Beacon School 18 December 1998 Walsall St. Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive 18 April 2001 School Warwickshire Attleborough First School 11 December 1998 Warwickshire Exhall First School 21 July 1999 Warwickshire Binley Woods First School 3 August 1999 Warwickshire Stratford-upon-Avon High School 14 August 2000 Warwickshire Marie Corelli School 21 August 2000 West Sussex Hazelwick School 7 February 2000 Wigan Hindley Borsdane Brook Special School 11 February 1999 Wigan Rose Hill Special School 11 February 1999 Wigan Tyldesley Highfield Special School 11 February 1999 Wigan Orrell Holgate Primary School 4 December 2000 Wiltshire Castle Combe Primary School 7 August 2000 Wolverhampton St. Peters Collegiate School 25 November 1998 Wolverhampton Aldersley High School 4 December 1998 Worcestershire Callowbrook First School 6 November 2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. `Sports pitch' means areas of open grassed land which are equal to, or larger than, the Football Association's recommended area for games played by under-10s, that is 2,000m{2} and which have a configuration making them suitable for sports pitches (whether they are so laid out or not). 2. The table excludes applications withdrawn by the applicant and applications where schools would retain the same, or a better, level of access to the same sports pitch or to an equivalent sports pitch. 3. The table includes applications from grant-maintained schools, where the application was made under section 231 of the Education Act 1996 but the decision was made in accordance with the draft criteria and then the criteria published in Circular No. 3/99, "The Protection of School Playing Fields". It also includes applications in respect of foundation and voluntary schools considered under Schedule 22 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 since 1 September 1999.

Date

25 February 2002

Reference

33633; 380 c730-4W;380 c733-6W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list applications for specialist school status which have been made by grammar schools; and what the subject specialism and the outcome of the application was in each case. - (Holding answer 19 December 2002).

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 December 2001

For answer on

9 January 2002

Answered on

9 January 2002

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list applications for specialist school status which have been made by grammar schools; and what the subject specialism and the outcome of the application was in each case. [24088] Mr. Timms: [holding answer 19 December 2002]: A list of applications to become specialist schools from September 1997 which have been made by grammar schools, together with information about the specialism for which they applied and the outcome of these applications is given in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. School LEA Specialism Outcome 1996-97 Burnham Grammar School Buckinghamshire Sports Unsuccessful Chatham Grammar School for boys Kent Sports Unsuccessful Bournemouth School Bournemouth Language Unsuccessful Newport Girls' High School Shropshire Language Unsuccessful Sir Thomas Rich's School Gloucestershire Language Unsuccessful Slough Grammar School Berkshire Language Unsuccessful Aylesbury Grammar School Buckinghamshire Technology Successful Beaconsfield High School Buckinghamshire Technology Successful Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Cumbria Technology Unsuccessful Queen Mary's Grammar School Walsall Technology Unsuccessful 1997-98 Chatham Grammar School for boys Kent Sports Unsuccessful Dr. Challoner's High School Buckinghamshire Language Unsuccessful Newstead Wood School for Girls Bromley Language Unsuccessful Sir Thomas Rich's School Gloucestershire Language Unsuccessful Slough Grammar School Berkshire Language Unsuccessful Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Cumbria Technology Unsuccessful St. Anselm's College Wirral Technology Unsuccessful 1998-99 Sir Thomas Rich's School Gloucestershire Language Unsuccessful Slough Grammar School Berkshire Language Unsuccessful Weald of Kent Grammar School for Kent Language Successful Girls 1999-2000 King Edward VI Camp Hill School Birmingham Arts Unsuccessful for Girls Cotham School Bristol Arts Successful King Edward VI Aston School Birmingham Sports Successful Bournemouth School Bournemouth Language Successful Chatham Grammar School for Boys Medway Language Successful Sir Thomas Rich's School Gloucestershire Language Successful St. Anselm's College and Upton Wirral Language Unsuccessful Hall School (joint) Wirral Grammar School for Girls Wirral Language Successful Chelmsford County High School for Essex Technology Successful Girls The King Edward VI Camp Hill Birmingham Technology Successful School Wallington High School for Girls Sutton, London Borough of Technology Unsuccessful 2000-01 Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School Buckinghamshire Arts Unsuccessful Dr. Challoner's High School Buckinghamshire Sports Successful Skegness Grammar School Lincolnshire Sports Successful Aylesbury High School Buckinghamshire Language Successful Pate's Grammar School Gloucestershire Language Successful Slough Grammar School Slough Language Unsuccessful Southend High School for Boys Southend Language Successful Boston Grammar School Lincolnshire Technology Unsuccessful John Hampden Grammar School Buckinghamshire Technology Successful St. Anselm's College Wirral Technology Unsuccessful Upton Hall School Wirral Technology Unsuccessful _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Some schools appear twice in the table. This is where the school has submitted a subsequent application following an unsuccessful bid in a previous year.

Date

9 January 2002

Reference

377 c937-8W;377 c940-2W; 24088

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of applications for specialist school status have been successful where the school in question is (a) a grammar school, (b) a comprehensive school and (c) a secondary modern or high school. - Including table. (Holding answer 19 December...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 December 2001

For answer on

9 January 2002

Answered on

9 January 2002

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of applications for specialist school status have been successful where the school in question is (a) a grammar school, (b) a comprehensive school and (c) a secondary modern or high school. [24087] Mr. Timms: [holding answer 19 December 2002]: Information covering designations from September 1997 on the percentage of successful applicants for specialist school status of grammar, comprehensive and modern schools is set out in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Grammar Comprehensive Modern 1996-97 Applications 13 313 12 Designations 2 71 2 Success Rate (Percentage) 15.4 22.7 16.7 1997-98 Applications 7 205 7 Designations 0 80 3 Success Rate (Percentage) 0.0 39.0 42.9 1998-99 Applications 4 111 4 Designations 1 75 1 Success Rate (Percentage) 25.0 67.6 25.0 1999-2000 Applications 13 250 12 Designations 8 120 4 Success Rate (Percentage) 61.5 48.0 33.3 2000-01 Applications 12 314 22 Designations 6 130 14 Success Rate (Percentage) 50.0 41.4 63.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

9 January 2002

Reference

377 c936-7W;377 c940W; 24087

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have applied for specialist status in each category in (a) the last academic year and (b) the current academic year. - Inc table.

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2001

Reference

7278; 372 c992-3W;372 c991-2W

House

House of Commons

Librarians' tools

Type

House

Session

Year

Department

Member

Primary member

Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

Publisher