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British schools face space crunch
Sunday July 29, 2012 12:11:04 PM,
IANS
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London: Nearly one
million extra school places will be needed within eight years as
rising birth rates and immigration push pupil numbers to a 50-year
high, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
The population boom has already pushed many primary schools to
"breaking point" and forced town halls to draw up emergency plans
to teach children in disused shops and warehouses.
Now figures from the education department have shown the number of
pupils in state schools is expected to rise to 7,950,000 by the
end of the decade - 935,000 more than now.
Primary and nursery schools will need an extra 736,000 places by
2020, with the remaining places required at secondary and special
schools, the Mail said.
Pupil numbers are forecast to reach levels last seen in the 1970s.
The figures also show 106,000 fewer places would be needed by 2020
if migration was reduced to zero.
The growing shortage of places is likely to lead to the opening of
more "super" primaries accommodating up to 1,000 children.
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