direct grant school

The scheme was attractive to most of the direct grant schools.

In 1976 it was one of 51 direct grant schools, out of 170, that decided to become comprehensive.

By 1976, the school was no longer a Direct Grant school, having opted to become fully independent.

All the other Catholic direct grant schools in Leeds also changed in this year.

Remember direct grant schools, city technology colleges, etc, etc?

It ceased to be a direct grant school when the Labour government abolished the scheme, and was therefore forced to become private.

King Edward's School, Bath was also a direct grant school.

The terms of reference for this commission were similar to Newsom's in 1968, but concerned with independent day schools and direct grant schools.

'Anyway, I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school.

From 1993 a small number of Roman Catholic former direct grant schools entered the state sector as grant-maintained schools.

During the 1950s it received increasing support from the Devon County Educational authority and became a direct grant school.

In 1935 Birkenhead School became a Direct Grant school.

Under the Education Act 1944, most of the direct grant schools became direct grant grammar schools.

Collingwood was one of the earliest direct grant schools to be created after the passage of the legislation by the then Conservative government.

The third group, Roman Catholic schools, made up nearly a third of the direct grant schools (19 for boys and 37 for girls).

A fee-paying school up until the Second World War, from 1944 to 1975 the school was a direct grant school.

Such schools might, gradually, become selective, and indeed might be very like the old direct grant schools, abolished by the Labour Government in 1966.

When direct grant schools were abolished, the school had to become an independent school once more in order to maintain its policy of selection by academic ability.

William Hugh Puddephat was born in 1945 in London, and attended a direct grant school.

Direct grant schools had similar teacher/pupil ratios to the maintained grammar schools, as their fees were regulated to match costs at the latter schools.

Boarding schools tended to be smaller and less academically selective than other direct grant schools, and to take a larger proportion of fee-paying pupils.

In view of this lack of progress, the Public Schools Commission was asked on October 1967 to add direct grant schools to its investigation.

The Circular also requested consultation between LEAs and direct grant schools on their participation in a comprehensive system.

He won a scholarship to Barnard Castle School, which was then a direct grant school where he lived as a boarder.