Sentences with phrase «academies and free schools programme»

Concerns of potential conflicts of interests have been raised about individuals contracted to work as advisers in the government's academies and free schools programme in England.

Each has come with their own unique agenda for reform; for Michael Gove it was the academies and free schools programme; for Nicky Morgan, it was character building, resilience and trying to build bridges with the profession.

The National Union of Teachers warned the expansion of the academies and free schools programme was a wrong move that would a two tier education system.

The government's academies and free schools programme - where schools are run by independent organisations but outside of local authority influence - aims to improve failing schools.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

«The academies and free schools programme is proving to be a modern version of The Emperor's New Clothes, as we always knew it would be.

«The expansion of the academies and Free Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education system.

«It highlights issues that the NASUWT predicted would occur when the current academies and free schools programme was conceived by the Coalition.

Under the academies and free school programme, these schools report to the Department for Education and to central government directly.

Commenting on today's speech by the Prime Minister, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said: «Yet again we see the myth being peddled that the academies and Free Schools programmes are the answer to a good education in this country.

Sir David Carter, national schools commissioner, said: «I am delighted that Christine is joining my team of RSCs at such an exciting phase of the academies and free schools programmes.

«What is becoming quite clear is that the academy and free school programme is turning its back on an education system that is accountable to the taxpayer.

«We are driving forward the academies and free schools programmes with more than half of secondary schools now enjoying academy status.

Not exact matches

We already have eight regional schools commissioners, who take on key decisions regarding academies and free schools, so perhaps the number and remit will change, especially as the free schools programme will be terminated.

As with the academies programme, free schools were initially meant to address issues of equity and inclusion, and create quality provision in poorer areas where it may not already exist.

From my point of view the main embarrassment has been and continues to be Liberal Democrat support for Osborne's economic policies: others may be concerned about other issues (support for the restructuring of the NHS, or the creation of «free» schools and extension of the academy programme, for example).

2.57 pm: My colleague Paul Owen has just been to a fringe meeting where David Laws was explaining his worries about the coalition's expansion of the academies programme and introduction of free schools.

The expansion of the academies programme and free schools, the end of the # 55bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, and a reduction in government funding for higher education are all having a significant impact on the schools, the end of the # 55bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, and a reduction in government funding for higher education are all having a significant impact on the Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, and a reduction in government funding for higher education are all having a significant impact on the sector.

The government's flagship school reforms programme of encouraging academy conversion and the opening of new free schools could act to widen educational inequality across the country, according to new analysis.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

The current government programme has been to provide choice for parents with more schools moving towards Academy status, the creation of Free Schools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical Collegesschools moving towards Academy status, the creation of Free Schools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical CollegesSchools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical Collegesschools like the University Technical Colleges (UTC).

Schools Week has previously revealed how the government wrote off nearly # 10 million as losses soar under the expansion of its free school and academies programme.

Most of the legal changes needed for the expansion of the academies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in thacademies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in thAcademies Act, which went through Parliament in the summer.

The free schools programme, established by Michael Gove in 2010 as a way for members of the public and teachers to set up their own schools, is increasingly used by large, established academy chains to start their own schools.

The OECD warned in 2011 that the free schools and academies programme would need careful monitoring to ensure it did not increase social segregation.

Local authorities will no longer build schools themselves, so the free schools programme will be the gateway for «education providers» - including faith groups and those behind existing academy chains - to establish new schools.

The Coalition Government continued and borrowed the 50 % policy when it introduced its free schools programme in 2010 (free schools are a type of academy school).

The academies programme is still on firm ground and will remain so, but a revamped framework for free schools is a strong possibility.

An Academies Act, passed in the summer, paved the way for groups of parents, teachers and charities to set up their own «free schools», and for the expansion of the academies programme, under which schools are being encouraged to «opt out» of local authorityAcademies Act, passed in the summer, paved the way for groups of parents, teachers and charities to set up their own «free schools», and for the expansion of the academies programme, under which schools are being encouraged to «opt out» of local authorityacademies programme, under which schools are being encouraged to «opt out» of local authority control.