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Meaning of "assisted place" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSISTED PLACE

assisted place  [əˈsɪstɪd pleɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSISTED PLACE

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Assisted place is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASSISTED PLACE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Assisted Places Scheme

The Assisted Places Scheme was established in the UK by the Conservative government in 1980. Children who could not afford to go to select fee-paying independent schools were provided with free or subsidised places - if they were able to score within the top 10-15% of applicants in the school's entrance examination. By 1985, the scheme catered for some 6,000 students per year. The scheme, to a degree, replicated the effect of the direct grant grammar schools which had operated between 1945 and 1976. Between 1981 and 1997 an estimated 80,000 children participated in the scheme, costing a total of just over £800 million. In 1981, 4,185 pupils gained assisted places. By 1997 there were some 34,000 pupils and 355 schools in this scheme. Arguing the practice to be elitist and wasteful of public funds, the Labour government of Tony Blair, upon its election in 1997, abolished the Assisted Places Scheme. The government announced that the funds were instead to be used to reduce class sizes in state nursery schools. However, children already in receipt of an assisted place were allowed to complete the remainder of that phase of their education.

Definition of assisted place in the English dictionary

The definition of assisted place in the dictionary is the right for a pupil from a family with a low income to attend a private school and for the fees to be paid by the government.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSISTED PLACE


anyplace
ˈɛnɪˌpleɪs
birthplace
ˈbɜːθˌpleɪs
commonplace
ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs
displace
dɪsˈpleɪs
emplace
ɪmˈpleɪs
enlace
ɪnˈleɪs
everyplace
ˈɛvrɪˌpleɪs
fireplace
ˈfaɪəˌpleɪs
homeplace
ˈhəʊmˌpleɪs
lace
leɪs
Lovelace
ˈlʌvˌleɪs
marketplace
ˈmɑːkɪtˌpleɪs
misplace
ˌmɪsˈpleɪs
place
pleɪs
plaice
pleɪs
preplace
priːˈpleɪs
replace
rɪˈpleɪs
showplace
ˈʃəʊˌpleɪs
someplace
ˈsʌmˌpleɪs
workplace
ˈwɜːkˌpleɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSISTED PLACE

assistant editor
assistant judge
assistant librarian
assistant manager
assistant master
assistant mistress
assistant priest
assistant principal
assistant professor
assistant referee
assistant secretary
assistant teacher
assistantship
assisted dying
assisted living
assisted passage
assisted suicide
assister
assistive
assistor

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSISTED PLACE

all over the place
another place
between a rock and a hard place
decimal place
hiding place
holy place
jumping-off place
know one´s place
Laplace
last resting place
meeting place
mise en place
no place
palace
parking place
pride of place
resting place
stopping place
take place
the other place
watering place

Synonyms and antonyms of assisted place in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «assisted place» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSISTED PLACE

Find out the translation of assisted place to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assisted place from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assisted place» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

辅助地方
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lugar asistida
570 millions of speakers

English

assisted place
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहायता जगह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكان بمساعدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

убить место
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lugar assistida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সহায়তা স্থান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lieu assistée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tempat dibantu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

assistierten Ort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

補助場所
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어시스트 장소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dibantu panggonan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nơi sự hỗ trợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உதவி இடத்தில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहाय्य स्थान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yardım alan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

posto assistita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wspomaganiem miejsce
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вбити місце
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

loc asistată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποβοηθούμενη θέση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bygestaan ​​plek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stöd plats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assistert sted
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assisted place

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSISTED PLACE»

The term «assisted place» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.489 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSISTED PLACE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «assisted place» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «assisted place» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assisted place

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSISTED PLACE»

Discover the use of assisted place in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assisted place and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Paradox of Aging in Place in Assisted Living
The first participant-observation fieldwork on assisted living, based on an in-depth study of two assisted living settings and giving the viewpoints of both administrators and residents.
Jacquelyn Beth Frank, 2002
2
A Handbook of School Fundraising
Eligible children would normally have to be resident in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man throughout the two years preceding 1 January of each year in which the assisted place is taken up. Admission to schools on an assisted place is ...
Rosenberg, Harris, 2013
3
The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the Future
Many current and prospective residents of assisted place a high priority on privacy as a quality-of-life value (hawes, 2000; kane, 1998). to the extent that privacy is important for exercising one's autonomy, maintaining dignity, and achieving an ...
Stephen M. Golant, Joan Hyde, 2008
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Educating Citizens: International Perspectives on Civic ...
Eligibility for an assisted place was limited to low-income students who met the school's entry requirements. In one sense, the scheme represented a partial privatization of education, since without this support the pupil would be educated in a ...
Patrick J. Wolf, Stephen Macedo, 2004
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Researching The Powerful In Education
Both at the 1986 Headmasters' Conference (HMC) where we spoke about the research to heads of assisted place schools, and in a review of the subsequent book in the HMC journal, that finding was interpreted less as a criticism than as a  ...
Geoffrey Walford Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Education Policy, Aston Business School, Birmingham., 2013
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Beatson, Matthews and Elliott's Administrative Law Text and ...
S. 2(1) limits the ability of a school to provide assisted places to the circumstances provided for in subsection (2). That subsection requires a child with an assisted place who is receiving primary education to cease to hold that place at the end ...
Mark Elliott, Jack Beatson, Martin Matthews, 2011
7
Privatization and Privilege in Education
In 1987, 56 per cent of the assisted place sixth-form leavers (N = 1,345) went on to university and a total of 76 per cent went on to higher education. Given the select nature of the students, these figures might actually seem rather low, but they ...
Geoffrey Walford, 2011
8
Collection of Poems 'Water Is More Precious Than Gold to People'
But no one laughed at me I remember there was this other family on assisted place My oldest brother was in the same year as their oldest brother. Sajid and Mark Both got into Oxford Mark got a place in Medicine The my second oldest brother ...
A. Submitter, 2011
9
Administrative Law of the European Union, Its Member States ...
These concerns are apparent in the Court of Appeal decision in R v Department of Education and Employment, ex parte Begbie.169 The case concerned the Secretary of State's refusal to retain a publicly funded assisted place for the applicant ...
René Seerden, F. A. M. Stroink, 2002
10
Choice and Diversity in Schooling: Perspectives and Prospects
Certainly the relative success of assisted place holders has been prominent in the private sector's annual reports on the Scheme, and in its more general publicity (e.g. Marks 1992). Publicising that success has been made easier by a National ...
Carl Bagley, Ron Glatter, Philip Woods, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSISTED PLACE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term assisted place is used in the context of the following news items.
1
I've been through everything for being gay: loneliness, bullying and …
When he won an assisted place at Merchant Taylor's Boys School he begged his mum not to send him. “I knew what it would be like because ... «Liverpool Echo, Jun 15»
2
As Conservatives, we stand up against 'dog-whistle' rhetoric
Later, when she was in senior school, due to her parents' financial constraints, Lucy was able to attain a partly-government-assisted place; ... «Brighton & Hove Independent, Apr 15»
3
“Trust, that's the key word isn't it?”, says Brent Central candidate …
After attending Hallfield School in Westminster, he won an assisted place at Latymer School in Hammersmith, receiving a state funded ... «Brent and Kilburn Times, Mar 15»
4
Social mobility barely exists but let's not give up on equality
I'm also very fortunate that the government assisted place scheme existed (prior to being scrapped by labour), to allow me into a good school, ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
5
Schooling gave me humility
... without to make the payments, or if the whole family was floating on the crest of an assisted place which meant the whole shebang was gratis. «Express.co.uk, Dec 14»
6
Ryde Academy head sent 40 girls home in a day as their skirts were …
Dr Fox, 46, went to a state comprehensive up to sixth form, when he won an assisted place at an independent school in Cambridge. He gained ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
7
Private schools have done too little for too long
When last in government, we scrapped the assisted place scheme to fund smaller infant class sizes, nationalised a number of private schools ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
8
Durham School headmaster says education can change lives of …
Mr McLaughlin won an assisted place to study at St Edward's College, a boys' school in Liverpool. Following his A-levels, he took up a place at ... «The Journal, Aug 14»
9
Hartlepool school chief says high university fees are deterring students
“There are assisted place schemes in place to help pupils from poorer backgrounds, and that is a key part of the support which is available to ... «Hartlepool Mail, Jul 14»
10
Ken Clarke - 'I'm not naturally gloomy. I try to be an optimist'
Won assisted place at Nottingham High School; studied law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1970: Elected MP for south Notts ... «Management Today, Jul 14»

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