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Article: Giant secondary schools make pupils feel like 'cogs in machine' ; EUROPE
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2006
- Author:
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Secondary schools are getting bigger and bigger, fuelling
concerns that they are becoming too impersonal to get the best out
of pupils.
Figures show a dramatic growth in the size of secondary schools
during the past decade. Since 1995, the number of secondary schools
with fewer than 1,000 pupils has dropped by nearly 600, to 1,562,
while the number taking in more than 1,500 has risen by 124 per
cent, from 115 to 258.
The move has prompted Human Scale Education (HSE), a pressure
group which promotes more personal education, to urge ministers to
set up an investigation into whether large schools are effective in