Sentences with phrase «allowing academies and free schools»

Allowing academies and free schools to hire unqualified teaching staff may lead to a decline in educational standards.

With its proposed changes to the school admissions code published on Friday, the government wants to allow academies and free schools to give priority to the poorest pupils when allocating places.

Not exact matches

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We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever schools are opening than ever before.

Allowing unqualified teachers into the classroom — as Michael Gove has done in academies and free schools — without any pathway to achieve qualified status creates a dangerous precedent.

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a «flipped classroom» that allows blended learning — online lectures can happen at home and project - based learning can happen during school.

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: «Michael Gove is allowing underperformance to go unchecked in academy schools and free schools.

In 2012 the rules were changed to allow free schools and academies to recruit unqualified teachers, which the Government said was in order to allow them tor recruit more professionals, such as scientists, engineers, musicians and experienced teachers from overseas.

The results come amid growing pressure from SRE campaigners for the government to reconsider its current guidance on the subject, which allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching pupils about sex.

The minister also said the Lib Dems would keep the academy school system, and allow more free schools to open, but only in places where there was a need for extra places.

Most of the legal changes needed for the expansion of the academies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in thacademies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in thAcademies Act, which went through Parliament in the summer.

Labour's emphasis on teacher quality dovetails with the longstanding commitment to make it compulsory for all teachers in state - funded schools to be qualified - and would reverse the coalition government's decision to allow free schools and academies to recruit unqualified teachers.

Last year's education select committee report into academies and free schools put it baldly: «Current evidence does not allow us to draw conclusions on whether academies in themselves are a positive force for change.»

The NEU will also echo UCET's concern that academies and free schools are still allowed to hire unqualified teachers, meaning they would not benefit from any of the changes at all.

The premise of free schools and academies has been to allow innovation and variety into the system.

«We know that parents do not agree with many of the education secretary's «reforms», such as allowing free schools and academies to employ unqualified teachers or the excessive testing of pupils from the age of four.

Mr Twigg criticised the education secretary for allowing free schools and academies the freedom to employ staff who do not have qualified teacher status.

The boards and their regulators will be given delegated powers, allowing them «to investigate and change the sponsors and management of failing academies or free schools», according to the Guardian, which has seen a leaked document on the plan.

«Michael Gove needs to stop wasting money on under - subscribed free schools, allowing free schools to set up where there are surplus places and forcing schools to become academies, and accept that good schools come in all shapes and sizes.»

Where a child is admitted to a special academy or special free school whose funding and admission arrangements allow for them to admit children who have special educational needs but do not have an EHC plan