secondary school

"Going into secondary school where nobody knows you, nobody knows your circumstances, it was difficult for me," she said.

The majority of suspensions and exclusions - around nine out of 10 - occur in secondary school, but numbers are rising among primary-age children too.

After completing primary and secondary school in Ghana, Bawumia moved to the UK for undergraduate study and went on to gain a masters in economics from the prestigious Oxford University.

He said more than 1,500 primary school children and just under 1,000 secondary school pupils had been enrolled during the pilot.

Two secondary schools could take on 600 extra pupils between them after plans to build a new school became too expensive.