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Health Education: Donors
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Give and Let Live organ donation education programme for secondary school pupils. [226009]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: We consider the Give and Let Live programme, produced by NHS Blood and Transplant, to be extremely useful in helping pupils to improve their knowledge and understanding of key issues relating to donation. This view is backed up by the recent evaluation of the programme conducted by the Jeanette Crizzle Trust.
A joint letter from the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and the Secretary of State for Health was sent to all schools on 30 September to raise the profile of the programme, and to ensure that schools are aware of the importance of teaching about donation. Every further education institution will also receive this letter in the week commencing 13 October.
Health Education: Sex
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects the group reviewing sex and relationship education to report its recommendations. [225818]
Jim Knight: The sex and relationships education (SRE) review steering group has had its final meeting and is in the process of finalising its report, which it intends to publish shortly.
Higher Education: Disadvantaged
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of those in receipt of education maintenance allowance entered (a) higher education, (b) a Russell Group university and (c) Oxford or Cambridge University in each year since the allowance was introduced. [226041]
Jim Knight: The Department for Children, Schools and Families does not hold information on the destinations of young people after they have been in receipt of education maintenance allowance (EMA). The LSC are planning a future piece of work to conduct further analysis of UCAS data on young people progressing into higher education, and to match that with those who have previously been in receipt of EMA. A copy of that study, when available, will be placed in the House Library.
Independent Schools: Assessments
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many independent schools had pupils taking key stage 3 tests in the last five years for which figures are available. [225827]
Jim Knight: Independent schools offer national curriculum based assessment at key stage 3 on a voluntary basis. Their results are not published at school level in the secondary (key stage 3) achievement and attainment tables.
The figures in the following table include independent schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs in which there were pupils with eligible results:
| Examination year | Independent schools with eligible pupils | Total number of schools with eligible pupils |
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many independent schools have pupils studying for an A-level in communication and culture. [226038]
Jim Knight: There is not an A level in communication and culture. Figures for related subjects in 2006/07 are given as follows:
| Independent | All schools | |||
| Number of independent schools and colleges that entered pupils into subject | Percentage of independent schools and colleges that entered pupils into subject | Number of schools and colleges that entered pupils into subject | Percentage of schools and colleges that entered pupils into subject | |
| Notes: 1. Other social studies includes ‘European studies’, ‘archaeology’, ‘logic/philosophy’ and ‘citizenship’. 2. Art and Design' includes ‘drawing and painting’, ‘graphics’, ‘photography’, ‘3D studies’, ‘textiles’, ‘fine art’ and ‘critical studies’. 3. Other communication studies include communication studies, performance studies’ and ‘film studies’. 4. Figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August 2006). | ||||
Languages: Schools
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) which languages are taught in a primary school, broken down by the number of schools teaching each language; [225831]
(2) which primary schools teach a foreign language other than French, Spanish or German. [225832]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The following table details the proportions of those primary schools who reported in autumn 2007 that they were teaching languages in class time teaching each particular language. The data were obtained from ongoing research commissioned by the Department, which estimated that 84 per cent. of primary schools were teaching languages in class time. The figures are based on a representative sample of maintained primary schools and the survey achieved a 69 per cent. response rate nationally. Percentages do not add up to 100 per cent. as some schools offer two or more languages.
Other languages taught in small numbers of primary schools included: Latin, Russian, Polish, British Sign Language, Punjabi, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Dutch, Esperanto, Welsh, Cornish, Danish, Estonian, Taiwanese, Modern Hebrew, Afrikaans, Somali, Maori and Finnish.
| Percentage of schools offering languages at KS2 | |
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which secondary schools teach ( a) Chinese, (b) Urdu, (c) Japanese and (d) Italian and are located in a local authority area which also includes at least one primary school which teaches that subject. [225833]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department does not hold this information.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which secondary schools offer (a) Italian, (b) Chinese, (c) Urdu and (d) Japanese at (i) GCSE and (ii) A-level. [225834]
Jim Knight: DCSF does not hold information on schools that offer particular subjects.
Information on the number of schools that entered pupils into these subjects can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Learning and Skills Council
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent staff work for the Learning and Skills Council. [224568]
Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply
The Learning and Skills Council’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2007-08 set out details of the number of staff employed by the organisation. For the year ended March 2008, the average number of staff employed by the LSC was 3,451. This includes
269 agency and temporary staff and five inward secondees. These figures are based on full time equivalent numbers.
Members: Correspondence
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects the Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families to reply to the letter dated 29 July from the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham on the Haut de la Garenne children’s home. [225987]
Beverley Hughes: A response was sent by the Minister for Children, Young People and Families via e-mail on 9 October.
National Curriculum Tests
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what payments are due to ETS for the administration of the national tests in each year from 2008-09 to 2012-13; how much has been paid to ETS to date; and if he will make a statement. [221786]
Jim Knight: The total paid to ETS for the administration of the national curriculum tests during the first contract cycle was £35,023,576.65 (including the final payment under the exit plan of £52,516), of which £19,500,000.00 has now been returned.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils requested a re-mark of key stage (a) 2 and (b) 3 tests in each of the last five years; and in what percentage of such cases the mark was revised. [225829]
Jim Knight: The National Assessment Agency has in place arrangements for marking to be reviewed where a school believes that it is inaccurate to the extent that a pupil has received an incorrect national curriculum level. The NAA's review service is not available to pupils. However, schools may request reviews of marking on behalf of their pupils.
Tables 1 and 2 show the number of review requests received by the NAA, since 2004, for a marking review of key stage 2 and key stage 3 national curriculum tests and what proportion of the requests resulted in a level change. Data for 2008 are not yet available.
The figures in the tables were provided by the NAA.
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