Sentences with phrase «schools and academy trusts»

But Mr Hunt says that for both free schools and academy trusts there has been a serious lack of oversight.

Schools Week recently reported that schools and academy trusts are not making the most of the millions of pounds they pay into the apprenticeship levy, over a year after it was introduced.

In 2014, the UK's National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) partnered with Shanghai academics to implement Asian styles of teaching in a small group of British schools and academy trusts.

Schools and academy trusts are not making the most of the millions of pounds they pay into the apprenticeship levy, over a year on from its introduction.

Speaking to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust conference, the prime minister accepted that «sometimes the pace of reform has been hard, even confusing».

Tony Blair's personal fundraiser Lord Levy, Des Smith, a head teacher and member of the specialist schools and academies trust, and businessman Sir Christopher Evans who lent Labour # 1 million before the last election, were arrested by the police as part of the cross-party probe.

London: National College for Leadership and Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

Since Schools Week started we've tracked the eight regional schools commissioners, civil servants who control all decisions on school and academy trust openings, closures and significant changes.

He is a trustee of Teach First and on the boards of Future Leaders and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

And Specialist Schools and Academies Trust chief executive Elizabeth Reid said academies set up to replace failing schools had «shown dramatic improvements in many cases».

Bill Watkin, operational director at the Specialists Schools and Academies Trust, believes more flexible assessment would improve the current GCSE model.

Not exact matches

The church building still remains, but is now owned and operated by the Carlton Academy PTA from Nottingham and is now used as an outdoor education facility for their pupils and those from other schools in the Redhill Academy Trust

Joined at the event by Dr. Sandra Hassink, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and by Jessica Donze Black, head of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vilsack movingly described how, as the son of a drug - and alcohol - addicted adoptive mother, he was shamed for being overweight which in turn impacted his performance in school.

The move is the culmination of a long campaign by secularists, who first succeeded in getting creationism banned from all future free schools, then future stand - alone academies and then finally all future multi-academy trusts.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

As a consequence of this, the Methodist Church was required by the DfE to set up an Academy umbrella, the Methodist Academies and Schools Trust (MAST), or else lose control of its schools that become AcaSchools Trust (MAST), or else lose control of its schools that become Acaschools that become Academies.

Supporters of the campaign include the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

It also featured promises of more education reforms, with the «best headteachers» working in more than one school as trusts, academies and federations are expanded.

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

«Unlike maintained schools, academies have substantial discretion over the ways in which governance is undertaken and some schools and multi-academy trusts have used this freedom to establish opaque and ambiguous governance structures that undermine effective internal school accountability.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Both organisations remain UK companies and will continue to serve Schools, Academies, Independents, Multi-Academy Trusts and Further Education.

The funding also comprises # 1.4 billion of funding allocations for schools, local authorities and academy trusts to invest in improving the condition of the school estate.

Regarding the New Line Learning Academy, the regional schools commissioner for South East and South London, Dominic Herrington, wrote a pre-warning notice letter to its operator, Future Schools Trusts, in Noschools commissioner for South East and South London, Dominic Herrington, wrote a pre-warning notice letter to its operator, Future Schools Trusts, in NoSchools Trusts, in November.

The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

Dave Smith comments: «Schools, academies and trusts continue to need consultancy and training support.

«We are delighted to be working to develop this new capacity with National Literacy Trust, its extensive school networks, and their partners in the Aldridge Foundation and Ormiston Academies Trust groups of academieAcademies Trust groups of academiesacademies.»

The DfE has been reluctant to be too prescriptive about the optimum size of a multi-academy trust, but it is likely that over time we will see MATs grow from 3, 4, 5 schools, typically, to trusts operating at least a dozen and may be upwards of 20 — 25 schools, with there still being a place for academy chains of 50 + schools.

Those schools that do not yet have academy status attended the session presented by Tom Rees, headteacher and director at Northampton Primary Academy Trust academy status attended the session presented by Tom Rees, headteacher and director at Northampton Primary Academy Trust Academy Trust (NPAT).

The Trust is responsible for all procurement for each school, including the purchase of equipment and resources the academies require to provide the best level of teaching to its students.

A thousand pounds worth of equipment is now available on loan to pupils at Rockwood Academy and Nansen Primary School, both run by CORE Education Trust.

Academisation is a relatively new education structure for schools and with this comes need for schools, academies and multi academy trusts (MATs) to share experiences and advice.

The reception was attended by 150 business experts and representatives from academy trusts, who were encouraged to consider the full spectrum of ways they could work together to improve school standards.

Weak governance was also flagged with four trusts exposed as lacking in these areas — namely Theale Green Academy Trust, Durham Free School Limited, the Business Academy Bexley, and the Bishop of Rochester Academy Trust.

Many local authorities are just as happy now to provide capital grant to schools and academies to deliver additional school places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tschool places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tSchool Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy trusts.

Venturing beyond havering Havering Education Services» Computing and Online Safety team has also been asked to provide support services for Computing and Online Safety (including Switched on Computing) for schools, academies and trusts outside of Havering including regular network meetings for schools in Harlow, Basildon and the London Borough of Redbridge.

Advising other schools on choosing a cashless system, Sam Tse from South Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust said: «Communicate with parents well in advance regarding reasons behind the change and the benefits to themselves and the school.

When schools become academies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered into «academy arrangements» (pursuant to the Academies Aacademies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered into «academy arrangements» (pursuant to the Academies AAcademies Act 2010).

John F. Kennedy School is a four to 19 special needs school within the Learning and Harmony Multi Academy School is a four to 19 special needs school within the Learning and Harmony Multi Academy school within the Learning and Harmony Multi Academy Trust.

Free schools, independent schools, academy schools and trusts are just a few of the changes that have emerged in recent years.

«Whether by founding or developing academy trusts, joining governing bodies to provide oversight and encouragement, or providing careers advice and mentoring, I am today calling for more business leaders to play their part and join the schools revolution.»

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

He deprecates claims made by, among others, the Heritage Foundation, the Education Trust, KIPP Academies, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, and Jaime Escalante's biographers, insisting that the achievements don't amount to much or couldn't be replicated or that the schools engage in cream skimming.

There is, once again, commonality with the challenges faced by academy trusts and schools who are facing similar deliberations about the management, co-ordination and reporting of «quality» related activities.

Bids were invited around five research areas, and the successful projects are: Tribe Arts; Alive and Kicking Theatre Company; Leyburn Primary School and Yorkshire Collaborative Academy Trust (YCAT); ImpactEd, in partnership with Bright Futures Educational Trust; and Victoria Academies Trust.

According to The Sutton Trust, over the last year, the government has been more willing to move underperforming academies from their chains and Regional Schools Commissioners have been actively re-brokering academies.

Exhibitors at the Conference included Amadeus; Langley Waterproofing Systems; BlueSky; PS Financials, who discussed «Exploiting the opportunity for change within the Finance Function, when creating or growing a Multi Academy Trust»; Civica with their Resource Financials; Capita SIMS; Bodet; and the Association of School and College Leaders.

This will include state - funded schools and multi academy trusts, charities and research organisations, independent schools and universities.

The Prime Minister is proposing that all schools graded «requires improvement» would have new leadership imposed on them and be taken over by an academy trust if they do not have a credible plan to raise them to «good» or «outstanding».