The two senior churches pour millions into the education system of this country, helping to provide a quarter of the nation's schools.

In any one year more than a quarter of our schools don't even send 5 kids to the most competitive universities.

More than a quarter of the country's primary schools were destroyed in the war, and many teachers have been killed.

In 1995, one group, the Pew Health Professions Commission, recommended shutting down a quarter of the nation's medical schools.

Then came spot audits for a quarter of the city's schools, some chosen at random and others because of discrepancies in their records.

More than a quarter of the district's schools are found in Upper Montclair.

As much as a quarter of the state's elementary and secondary schools perform below standards.

More than a quarter of the district's 790 schools are already open year-round to relieve overcrowding.

He will point out that in any one year "more than a quarter of our schools don't even send five kids to the most competitive universities".

So far a quarter of Britain's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material.