• The Assisted Places Scheme was established in the UK by the Conservative government in 1980. Children who were eligible were provided with free or subsidised...
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    Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, and the Government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in 1947. The Australian...
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    school where he had gained a place after passing the 11+ examination and was funded by the government's Assisted Places Scheme. He graduated from Christ's...
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    the Assisted Places Scheme provided funding to send children to the two schools that were formerly direct-grant grammars. The national Assisted Places Scheme...
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    under the Assisted Places Scheme until the closure of that scheme in 2001. The Schools now run their own means tested Assisted Places Scheme under which...
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  • attempts to maintain a broad social mix, despite the end of the Assisted Places Scheme, by providing means-tested bursaries.[citation needed] Members of...
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    abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme in 1997, the school instituted a system of means tested bursaries known as governors' assisted places. A performing...
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  • ran until 1983 when it was replaced by the Youth Training Scheme. The Assisted Places Scheme was introduced in 1980, whereby gifted children who could...
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    when it became a private school. It briefly participated in the Assisted Places Scheme during the 1990s until its abolishment. In 2003, it absorbed the...
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    Newcastle-under-Lyme School under the Assisted Places Scheme to help bright students enter elite schools. After the scheme was discontinued in 1997, he attended...
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    with extra funding to cut class sizes, notably by abolishing the Assisted Places Scheme. Subsequently, there has since 1997 been a notable increase in literacy...
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    30 or under for 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds by using money from the assisted places scheme. Fast track punishment for persistent young offenders, by halving...
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    however revived between 1981 and 1997 with the introduction of the Assisted Places Scheme, which provided support for 80,000 pupils attending schools not...
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    introduced the Assisted Places Scheme in England and Wales in 1980, whereby the state paid the school fees for those pupils capable of gaining a place but unable...
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    schools became coeducational to replace the lost places. An echo of the direct grant, the Assisted Places scheme, was introduced by the Conservative government...
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  • grant grammar school, offering free places to 40% of pupils. Following the abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme, The Perse no longer received any state...
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  • and was influential in campaigning for the introduction of the assisted places scheme . He was also a committed Anglican Christian. Cornwall portal David...
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    duration of its existence (1980–1997) the school took part in the Assisted Places Scheme. Girls were first admitted to the Sixth Form in 1981, and the school...
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    Gilkes (Master from 1941 to 1953), the forerunner of the state "Assisted Places Scheme", by which the majority of boys selected to attend the college had...
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  • fees. and the school switched to the Assisted Places Scheme, retaining a mix of partly or wholly funded places and fee-paying pupils. Latymer Prep School...
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    offering sports scholarships. After the withdrawal of the Government Assisted Places scheme in 1998, the school has offered full-fee bursaries (or Sponsored...
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    creating an assisted suicide and euthanasia scheme for eligible individuals. These laws typically refer to the practices as "voluntary assisted dying". Voluntary...
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  • research projects on the impact of education policies, such as the assisted places scheme, city technology colleges and changes in initial teacher education...
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  • this scheme existed (1946 to 1976), and later took part in the Assisted Places scheme.[citation needed] From 2000 onwards an "Open Access" scheme was set...
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  • school, St Mary's Music School, receives Aided Places (similar to the abolished Assisted Places Scheme) where fees can be paid by the Scottish Ministers...
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    England and was educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School, funded by the Assisted Places Scheme. She studied at St Anne's College, Oxford and completed a first-class...
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    The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New...
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    scheme was abolished. In September 1976, the first "private" pupils were admitted to the school. From 1979, the School participated in the Assisted Places...
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    recruitment system, by abating fees for less well-off pupils. When the Assisted Places Scheme was rescinded in the late 1990s, MGS set up a "Bursary Appeal"....
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    Chipping Norton. Helped by a government funded scholarship, the Assisted Places Scheme, Byles attended Warwick School. He attended the University of Leeds...
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