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...

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...

abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme in 1997, the school instituted a system of means tested bursaries known as governors' assisted places. A performing...

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...

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...

the Assisted Places Scheme provided funding to send children to the two schools that were formerly direct-grant grammars. The national Assisted Places Scheme...

local primary school before entering private education, using the Assisted Places Scheme, at an independent secondary school, the Keil School in Dumbarton...

scheme was abolished. In September 1976, the first "private" pupils were admitted to the school. From 1979, the School participated in the Assisted Places...

however revived between 1981 and 1997 with the introduction of the Assisted Places Scheme, which provided support for 80,000 pupils attending schools not...

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...

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...

Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, and the government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in 1947. The Australian...

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...

with extra funding to cut class sizes, notably by abolishing the Assisted Places Scheme. A key pillar of Blunkett's work as education secretary was the...

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...

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...

still has grammar schools. In Stamford, their place was long filled by a form of the Assisted Places Scheme, providing state funding to send children to...

attempts to maintain a broad social mix, despite the end of the Assisted Places Scheme, by providing means-tested bursaries.[citation needed] Members of...

the pupils are now girls. In 1997, the government abolished the Assisted Places Scheme, which had helped children from poor families to attend the school;...

traditionalist, Carlisle created the Assisted Places Scheme, which enabled very bright working-class children gain a free place at some of Britain's top public...

schools became coeducational to replace the lost places. An echo of the direct grant, the Assisted Places scheme, was introduced by the Conservative government...

schools as a result of the abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme. Despite this, both schools maintain their place around the top of the Wirral A Level results...

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...

shadow post). During this time, she opposed the abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme.[citation needed] From June 1998, shadow minister for Foreign and...

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...

offering sports scholarships. After the withdrawal of the Government Assisted Places scheme in 1998, the school has offered full-fee bursaries (or Sponsored...

was a participating school in the Assisted Places Scheme, which saw its pupil numbers grow dramatically. When the scheme was scrapped, the school administration...

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...

Grammar School Guildford Foundation After the withdrawal of the Assisted Places Scheme in 1997 the social diversity of the school decreased, as a result...

in Bristol. 3 April – Education Act institutes the Assisted Places Scheme (free or subsidised places for children attending fee-paying independent schools...