Sentences with phrase «academies drive up standards»

The government argues academies drive up standards by putting more power in the hands of head teachers over pay, length of the school day and term times.

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«The plans to use academy chains to drive up standards is nothing more than yet another strategy to seek to promote and impose the Government's ideological academisation programme, despite the fact that there is no evidence that this raises standards.

The aim of the funds is to drive up standards, and the programmes will take place at academies and maintained schools across the country.

«Great Ouse Primary Academy will provide much - needed high - quality places, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Nicky Morgan announced in November the five academy sponsors given half of a # 10 million war chest to drive up standards, including setting up seven new academy hubs in five targeted northern areas.

Five academy sponsors will be handed grants totalling nearly # 5m to «drive up standards» in schools across the north of England, education secretary Nicky Morgan will announce tomorrow.

Reviving them will suck political time, effort and energy away from the existing plans to open new academies and drive up standards in parts of the country where schools have been falling behind.

Latest figures show academies are driving up standards at primary and secondary, transforming the education of millions of pupils across the country.»

However some accounting officers may relish the opportunity and challenge to drive standards up within a «coasting» school / academy having already achieved the very same in their own trust.

«We are in competition (with other schools), but we also talk to each other and support each other through the local authority, and I really think it's helped drive up standards in the whole of Hackney whether maintained schools or academies.»

An investigation into a «top - performing» academy trust given government cash to drive up standards in northern schools has revealed it breached rules over payments to trustees — but...

It might confirm what lots of people suspect - that there are nowhere near enough competent academy chains to drive up standards in the way the government wants.

Lucy Heller, chief executive of the ARK academy chain, said: «One of the benefits of being part of a strong academy network is the importance placed on monitoring - not just to drive up standards but to ensure financial good practice.

The education secretary said academies and free schools have helped by «promoting new ideas and approaches, and helping to drive up standards in other local schools as a result».

It marks a rapid expansion for the REACH brand, with Reach4 named as one of five academy chains given a slice of # 5 million government funding last year to «drive up standards» in northern schools.

«We need to do everything possible to ensure the DNA of the academy programme, which has been successful in driving up standards, is transferred to the very beginning of schooling.»

The government says the scheme to allow all good schools to become academies will drive up standards, because it believes the system will be less bureaucratic and that head teachers are best - placed to know what is best for their pupils.