Sentences with phrase «about failing academies»

David Laws, former schools minister and the institute's chairman, said successive governments had been «in denial» about failing academies.

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He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

But so, too, is concern about the consequences this nation faces if the academy refuses to recognize its shortcomings and fails to play to its strengths.

Speaking about academy chains, Sir David also said that it is a «myth» that chains failed because they grew too quickly.

The lessons of the Trojan Horse plot were not, therefore, about the rights and wrongs of faith schools, free schools or academies, but — as Peter Clarke made clear in his report — about poor governance, inadequate Ofsted inspections, and negligence by Birmingham City Council which «failed to intervene appropriately».

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.

But the education secretary repeatedly dodged questions on how many academies were failing, or what should be done about those.

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.

«For example, in Cambridgeshire, where practically all academies are either inadequate or requiring improvement, I know my regional director had a pretty tense conversation with the RSC about what are you going to do about these underperforming academies, the ones that will fail unless you intervene quickly.»

The government is planning to increase their powers to intervene in failing and «coasting» local authority maintained schools, as well as academies, but concerns about their different approaches have been raised by organisations such as United Learning, an academy trust that runs schools in all eight regions.

Elsewhere, the Royal Academy's survey of Abstract Expressionism has divided critics: while the Sunday Times's Waldemar Januszczak describes it as «close to perfect», the London Evening Standard's Matthew Collings thinks it is a «mess» that fails to answer even the most basic questions about the movement.