Sentences with phrase «about academy trusts»

A couple of thoughts on this: It's good to hear some positive news about academy trusts for once.

Auditors are increasingly raising the alarm about academy trusts at risk of running out of money, with chains raiding reserves and eyeing expansion to pay off deficits.

The Education Funding Agency, which carried out the investigation, expressed its concerns about the academy trust's «poor financial management and misunderstandings on responsibilities as to whether expenditure incurred was legitimate.»

Where we have concerns about an academy trust's ability to improve performance, we will intervene to find a strong sponsor for the school.

Not exact matches

«Clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the funding agreement... explicitly require that pupils are taught about the theory of evolution, and prevent academy trusts from teaching «creationism» as scientific fact.

They explicitly require that pupils are taught about the theory of evolution, and prevent academy trusts from teaching «creationism» as scientific fact.

Although the orangutans at the Great Ape Trust spend their days running, climbing up trees, and playing with their friends, they expended about 30 % less energy than expected for their mass, Pontzer's team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

I have my doubts about this film and the cast, but if Academy Award nominated director Bennett Miller and Academy award nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgment.

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.

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.

The Department for Education has written to 29 trusts about high pay in the past, however, the number of academy trusts called on explain pay levels were significantly small.

Wilshaw wrote: «Given these worrying findings about the performance of disadvantaged pupils and the lack of leadership capacity and strategic oversight by trustees, salary levels for the chief executives of some of these MATs do not appear to be commensurate with the level of performance of their trusts or constituent academies.

Those governing academies are a little bit more positive, but really not that much: 70 per cent of trustees of multi academy trusts (MATs) are negative about government policy.

The extent of the deficits was revealed by BBC 5 Live Investigates and Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has said that the numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of academy trusts, which currently run more than half of England's secondary schools.

Speaking about the Trust and its aspirations, CEO, Professor Sonia Blandford, said: «Over the past two years, Park House School and Achievement for All have been working closely with the Department for Education to design a Multi Academy Trust that puts children and young people at the centre of everything we do.

According to this article it is getting worse, not better, and not surprising when there are about 9 times as many academy trusts as there are English LEAs.

I know NASUWT has voiced concerns about the academies programme right from the outset but let's be clear that this is about creating a system that is school - led; one that puts trust in you — the professionals inside the system, giving you the freedom from government to do your jobs as you see fit, based on the evidence of what you know works.

The Academies Enterprise Trust which runs about 70 of these state - funded schools, was warned in March last year that it could not take over any more schools.

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If you're converting to an academy, see also guidance about setting up or joining an academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.

He said the trust inherited a # 700,000 deficit, now about # 1 million, when it took on Featherstone Academy in 2014.

Questions about pay for academy trust managers are also against a background of schools complaining about budget shortages.

The Department for Education currently «grade» academy sponsors but have refused to release information about the grade levels, or how they are decided, even to leaders of academy trusts.

Schools do indeed change Ofsted categories and it might be as a result of factors completely outside the control of the operator, be it LA or academy trust — however you only have to look at the trove of SchoolsWeek stories about how an academy has dropped a grade or two to see all the comments about how this shows the academy programme is to blame.

School leaders have expressed concerns about the cost and administrative implications of the target, which was introduced last April and covers all schools or academy trusts with 250 or more employees.

Letters were sent to the Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocesan Education Service and Creative Education Academies Trust about the Holy Family Catholic academy.

The Department for Education has responded to questions from the parliamentary education committee about the movement of schools between academy trusts.

A schools commissioner offered a troubled academy trust a «sweetheart deal» to quietly shift its schools to avoid information about its failings being made public.

The Durand Academy Trust was issued with a financial notice to improve in March last year, which raised concerns about Mark McLaughlin as the primary school's head and director of DET and London Horizons.

Outlines routes to a new employer — a transfer to academy status, a transfer from a single academy to a multi-academy trust, a transfer to a new multi-academy trust and a note about free schools.

We're not talking about extra money for buildings but assistance for academy trusts in financial difficulties.

She warned that that as a result of «turf disputes about who inspects what» between the inspectorate and regional schools» commissioners, academy trusts are misusing money «given to them for children's education».

Reform's survey of academy trust bosses also shows a worrying collective view about the minimum number of schools needed to make chains efficient, which is especially concerning in the context of data that shows that the vast majority of trusts have fewer than 10 schools.

A trust that is winding up also has no incentive to keep to agreed expenditure, and the quality of information it provides about HR, commercial contracts and financial balances «can not be assumed to be 100 per cent accurate», one academy trust leader said.

Given this is a positive story about the performance of an academy trust it's perhaps not surprising that nobody's commented on it.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), comments on the news that Durand Academy Trust is having its funding withdrawn over «serious concerns» about its financial management.

A summary of key dates about ESFA activities for the 2017 to 2018 academic year that relate to academy funding, finance and trust compliance with their funding agreement.

And while Ofsted and the regional schools» commissioners engage in turf disputes about who inspects what, it pains me to say that some multi academy trusts get away with the fraudulent misuse of public money which has been given to them for children's education.

My FoI request to about 70 academy trusts revealed the average transfer cost could be # 75k per academy.

Of the 24 free schools opening this month, about six are being set up by faith groups, a similar number are parent - or teacher - led and five will be run by trusts already running academies.

But it is not just the teaching unions that have expressed concerns about the powers of local and national government to intervene in failing academies and multi-academy trusts.

A DfE spokesman said today: «We have received allegations about possible financial irregularity at Perry Beeches Academy Trust.

There were also concerns raised about plans which would allow academy trusts to operate without any parent governors.

«Our ambition remains for all schools to become academies with more schools joining multi-academy trusts - our evidence shows this is the best way to bring about sustained improvement.»

The average pay across the top 100 charities was about # 210,000, which is slightly above the # 195,250 average pay for the 12 largest academy trusts.

This is where a number of schools in an academy trust are inspected as a group because of concerns raised about performance.

Over three - quarters (77 %) of young people think that they are either very likely or fairly likely to go on to higher education, but almost half of those likely to go (47 %) worry about the cost, according to new Ipsos MORI polling of 11 — 16 year olds in academies and maintained schools in England and Wales published today by the Sutton Trust.

Given the impetus of the academies programme to bring about rapid improvement, it is of great concern that we are not seeing this in these seven MATs [multi-academy trusts] and that, in some cases, we have even seen decline.»

Although anecdotal, and probably not the most trust worthy source, the reviews found on this sight shed some light about the dismal working condition at Energized For STEM Academy Inc from past employees.