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Meaning of "grant-maintained school" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL

grant-maintained school  [ˌɡræntmeɪnˈteɪnd skuːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL

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Grant-Maintained school is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grant-maintained school

Grant-maintained schools were state schools in England and Wales between 1988 and 1998 that had opted out of local government control, being funded directly by a grant from central government. Some of these schools had selective admissions procedures.

Definition of grant-maintained school in the English dictionary

The definition of grant-maintained school in the dictionary is a school funded directly by central government.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL


after-school
ˈæftəskuːl
alcool
ˈælkuːl
cool
kuːl
fool
fuːl
interschool
ˌɪntəˈskuːl
Istanbul
ˌɪstænˈbuːl
kewl
kuːl
Liverpool
ˈlɪvəˌpuːl
module
ˈmɒdjuːl
old-skool
ˈəʊldˌskuːl
pool
puːl
preschool
priːˈskuːl
rule
ruːl
schedule
ˈʃɛdjuːl
school
skuːl
skool
skuːl
tool
tuːl
uncool
ʌnˈkuːl
whirlpool
ˈwɜːlˌpuːl
you´ll
juːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL

granolith
granolithic
granophyre
granophyric
grant
grant of probate
grant-aided
grant-in-aid
grant-maintained
Granta
grantable
granted
grantee
granter
Grantham
Granthi
grantor
grants-in-aid
grantsman
grantsmanship

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL

business school
driving school
elementary school
grade school
graduate school
high school
home-school
infant school
junior high school
law school
medical school
middle school
old school
primary school
private school
public school
secondary school
senior high school
summer school
Sunday school
trade school

Synonyms and antonyms of grant-maintained school in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grant-maintained school» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL

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

Translator English - Chinese

补助维护学校
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escuela mantenida - subvención
570 millions of speakers

English

grant-maintained school
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुदान से बनाए रखा स्कूल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مدرسة حافظ منحة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Грант - поддерживается школы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escola mantida pelo subsídio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুদান রক্ষণাবেক্ষণ স্কুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

école de grant-maintained
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sekolah yang dikendalikan oleh geran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

grant- maintained school
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

助成金維持学校
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보조금 유지 학교
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekolah dhasar grant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trường cấp được duy trì
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மானியமாக பராமரிக்கப்படும் பள்ளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुदान-ठेवलेली शाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hibe bakımı yapılan okul
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scuola grant-maintained
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grant -maintained school
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Грант - підтримується школи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

menținut - grant școală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιχορήγηση διατηρημένο σχολείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toekenning onderhou skool
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bidrag hållna skolan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tilskuddet vedlikeholdt skole
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grant-maintained school

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL»

The term «grant-maintained school» is regularly used and occupies the 74.551 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grant-maintained school

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL»

Discover the use of grant-maintained school in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grant-maintained school and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Education And The Market Place
There is, of course no requirement that a grant maintained school should become selective in any way. However so much has been made in the press of the fact that a grant maintained school has this option, there is a belief in some people's ...
Terence H. McLaughlin, David Bridges, 2005
2
ThirdWay
If a grant-maintained school fails by national criteria, who is there to blame except the governors and the Secretary of State who gave them the money they misused ? It must not be allowed to fail, and its close financial ties with the central ...
3
School Choice, Equity and Social Exclusion in Europe
Two new types of school Two completely new types of school were introduced since in the late 1 980s - city technology colleges, announced in 1986 and previously described, and grant maintained school (as part of the 1988 Education  ...
John Sayer, Johan L. Vanderhoeven, 2000
4
School Partnerships Handbook
Furthermore, this is another difference from grant maintained schools: if a grant maintained school was failing there was no route for a local authority to take over the school or even close it. These options would still be available for a local ...
Paul Ainsworth
5
Education Policy
Case study: using grant-maintained school policy politically Deem and Davies ( 1991) provide an insider account of the responses of one secondary school, Stantonbury in Milton Keynes, in using government policy on opting out to ...
Paul Trowler, 2003
6
Opting Out: Catholic Schools Today
The Secretary of State will pay the governors of a grant-maintained school an annual grant to cover the school's running costs. Moreover, he will pay a grant of 100% on capital expenditure, and also pay grants for other types of expenditure.
Josephine Egan, 1988
7
Working for Children: Securing Provision for Children with ...
(2) In subsection (l)(b) above, "the responsible person” means— (a) in the case of a county, voluntary or grant-maintained school, the head teacher or the appropriate governor (that is, the chairman of the governing body or, where the ...
Peter Bibby, Ingrid Lunt, 2013
8
School Leadership: Beyond Education Management : an Essay in ...
To add economic incentives to these political imperatives, parents and governors were assured in 1993 that the grant-maintained school 'received extra money to reflect its particular circumstances and responsihilities compared with other ...
Gerald Grace, 1995
9
School Leadership: Beyond Education Management
To add economic incentives to these political imperatives, parents and governors were assured in 1993 that the grant-maintained school 'received extra money to reflect its particular circumstances and responsibilities compared With other ...
Professor Gerald Grace, 2005
10
The Contemporary Catholic School: Context, Identity And ...
To add economic incentives to these political imperatives, parents and governors were assured in 1993 that the grant-maintained school 'received extra money to reflect its particular circumstances and responsibilities compared with other ...
Terence McLaughlin, Joseph O'Keefe, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRANT-MAINTAINED SCHOOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grant-maintained school is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Parents want to save closure-threatened school by taking it out of …
They cite the success of Jordanhill, a grant-maintained school directly funded by the Scottish Government in Glasgow's west end, as an ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
2
Robert Crawford: 'The only major English novel set in Scotland is To …
Crawford attended a grant-maintained school where he rejected Burns in favour of TS Eliot, who has been an abiding love ever since. His first ... «The Guardian, Jul 14»
3
The question Ed Miliband has to answer: whose side are you on?
When, in 1995, Tony Blair ignored his party's aversion to selective education and sent his eldest child to a grant-maintained school miles away ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 13»
4
Where they teach you how to be thick
Tony Blair sent his children to the London Oratory – a grant-maintained school. So did New Labour stalwart Harriet Harman. Alastair Campbell ... «Spiked, Mar 11»
5
Ex-Winchester head backs academies plan
“I would not hesitate to investigate it if I was still in charge,” said Mr Bradbury, who failed in a bid to make Kings' a grant-maintained school ... «Hampshire Chronicle, Sep 10»
6
Diary of a rogue backbencher: The wages of sin are bounteous …
A news report forced my first rupture with Blairism. It claimed that Blair was opting for The Oratory, a grant-maintained school (GMS) for his son, ... «Daily Mail, Feb 10»
7
Harriet Harman: The force is with her
She decided to send her eldest son a Catholic grant-maintained school in 1993, before ending her younger son to a non-Catholic grammar ... «Independent, Feb 09»
8
Town vs Gown: Royal High School vs Beechen Cliff School in Bath
... for more than a century, going from a grammar school to a comprehensive school to a grant-maintained school without forfeiting its reputation ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 08»
9
Why does Harriet Harman hate marriage?
She sent one of her sons to a grant-maintained school, another to a selective grammar, reinforcing the belief that too many Labour politicians ... «Daily Mail, May 08»
10
GEOFFREY LEVY: Are Peter Hain's morals any less fake than his tan?
... extends beyond mere politics: he was one of the first Blairites to send one of his two sons, now 31 and 29, to a grant-maintained school. «Daily Mail, Jan 08»

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