As a «do tank», the Sutton
Trust runs programmes supporting disadvantaged students» entry to top universities and leading professions.
Not exact matches
Trusts across the country have signed contracts to lend NHS staff to computer contractors
running the Connecting for Health
programme, which includes the new choose and book appointments system, and the creation of a new electronic records database.
The Ethox Centre is pleased to announce that together with its partners at the Wellcome
Trust Major Overseas
Programmes in Kenya, Malawi, Thailand, South Africa and Vietnam, they are once again
running their annual one - week global health ethics summer school focussing on the ethical aspects of collaborative research in developing countries.
The Week Junior, the UK's fastest growing children's subscription magazine, which has had 50,000 subscriptions in two years, and OAT, a leading Multi-Academy
Trust with 34 schools, decided to
run the
programme in response to growing evidence, such as leading child development expert Dr Jacqueline Harding's research report done in partnership with The Week Junior, showing that explaining and engaging children in learning about current affairs has development pupil benefits.
The Carbon
Trust ran a service for local authorities, helping them to
run a pilot carbon management
programme in a sample of their schools.
The Oasis
trust runs 44 schools across the UK and is looking at offering peace studies as a stand alone subject as part of a wider
programme aimed at ensuring pupils are not influenced by religious extremism and gang culture.
Supported by funding from Nominet
Trust, EduKit offers two free - to - access products: «Insight» — a powerful, easy to use, analytics tool that allows schools to analyse student well - being and to track the effectiveness of youth
programmes; and «Connect» — an online database of thousands of free and low - cost youth development
programmes run by charities and social enterprises, classified by their impact and location.
In addition to the farm and residential visits, The Country
Trust offers a ground breaking Food Discovery
programme which has now
run in over 30 urban schools across England.
In addition to the Teacher Summer Schools, the Sutton
Trust runs a number of other
programmes to improve access to students from non-privileged homes with Oxford and Cambridge universities.
With the University of Cambridge they
run UK Summer Schools, free subject - specific residential courses to give students a taste of life as an undergraduate; and Sutton Scholars, the
Trust's flagship
programme to support highly able low and middle income students in early secondary schools.
The
trust was put on the Department for Education's «pause list» in 2012 — meaning it was not allowed to take on new schools — after
running into trouble after it expanded quickly in the early years of the academy
programme.
A spokesperson for the
trust, which has eight schools, said senior leaders would
run the sessions to begin with — but that «a
programme of additional teaching is being scheduled».
Academies Enterprise
Trust (AET) and the CfBT Schools
Trust (CST) are both on the government's «pause list» — meaning they can not sponsor new schools — after
running into trouble following quick expansion in the early years of the academy
programme.
It is only with the support of
trusts and foundations that the South London Gallery can
run the award - winning
programme of projects with local schools, children and families, as well as many of our exhibitions.
More than 20 British members of the Artist Pension
Trust (APT), an initiative intended to provide pensions to contemporary artists, are taking legal action to remove themselves from the
programme claiming it is being
run ineffectively, The Guardian reports.
Green Architecture Day presents a comprehensive
programme led by designers, practitioners and professionals,
run in partnership with Low Carbon
Trust.
But as a taster, there were 104 offshore wind - turbine tower - support designs competing for support in the Carbon
Trusts Offshore Wind Accelerator
programme, which
runs until 2014.
Sir Peter Lampl, chair of the Sutton
Trust, which
runs the
programme, says it has built up a «great reputation» and was «a great way for the profession to nurture and support talent it would not otherwise reach».