A Department for
Education spokesperson pointed Schools Week to a comment by schools minister Nick Gibb in October that said matching teachers to roles was «ongoing» and that, once the process had concluded, the number of withdrawals and cost of the pilot would be released.
Not exact matches
In opposing the amendment, Department for
Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the
point of conversion.
The law is quite clear on this
point as was confirmed by a
spokesperson for the New York State
Education Department:
When these
points were put to the Department for
Education, a
spokesperson said RSCs provided crucial local support, helped underperforming academies and encouraged the best leaders to support other schools.