Sentences with phrase «academies minister»

Although the latter, run by academies minister Lord Nash's Future Academies trust, only had nine trainees.
In a letter to education professionals, seen by Schools Week, the new academies minister Lord Agnew has set out plans to develop new «resources and guidance» for teachers.
In May, an investigation by Schools Week revealed that the Department for Education attempted to hide internal emails showing the then academies minister Lord Nash's intention to massage the presentation of figures that revealed the spiralling costs of rebrokering academies.
«I am going to write to [academies minister] Lord Agnew about it.
Before founding Turner Schools, Saxton served as chief executive of Future Academies, a trust founded by the former academies minister Lord Nash.
Suddenly, I imagined myself in the shoes of Lords Agnew and Nash, the two businessmen — both Tory donors — who are the current and previous academies ministers.
Meeting records released by the DfE in June last year revealed academies minister Lord Nash met with the Studio Schools Trust in March 2017 to «review the concept of studio schools».
The chair of OGAT is also a Director of The Inspiration Trust, one of whose Directors is Theodore Agnew, the recently appointed Academies Minister who was also a former non-executive Director at the DfE from 2010 to 2015, and Chair of the Academies Board from 2013 to 2015.
Sir Theodore Agnew, the new academies minister, said the «most effective way» to ensure there was no limit on pupils» potential was to use the «expertise and talent that exists in our school system».
In answer to a written question about what steps had been taken to ensure all schools were aware of their responsibilities under the Baker Clause, academies minister Lord Agnew said on December 6 that Ofsted would «take account of this statutory guidance when developing its approach to assessing careers provision».
Future Academies in Pimlico, central London, which was set up by the academies minister Lord Nash and his wife Caroline, announced plans to extend the school day in March 2016.
An academy trust founded and once chaired by the academies minister received a softened report from Ofsted after inspectors returned just four months after a damning inspection.
An academy trust founded and once chaired by the academies minister received a softened report from Ofsted after inspectors returned...
Claims that boarding schools can «transform» the prospects of vulnerable young people have been called into question after the academies minister threw his support behind the government's new...
Academies minister Lord Nash (pictured right) added the company will help the government keep pace in creating 600,000 new school places by 2021.
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, the largest education union in the UK, comments on the appointment of Sir Theodore Agnew as the new academies minister...
This week, Lord Agnew, the new academies minister, warned the education committee that direct inspection of MATs would cause «confusion» in the school system.
Lord Nash, the academies minister, told the House of Lords this morning that several documents would be on the government's website by the end of the month, including a «high - level outline» of the decision - making framework followed by England's eight regional schools commissioners.
But in a response to a written question in early December, the academies minister Lord Agnew said the government had communicated with schools throughout the autumn term to «explain how to comply with the new law and allow them sufficient time to prepare for its commencement».
An unknown quantity is Academies Minister Lord Nash.
That same month, the academies minister Theodore Agnew wrote to chairs of all academy trust boards urging them to take their financial responsibilities seriously, and not to over-reward trust bosses.
Lord Nash, the academies minister, said the initial warning was given because of «serious concerns about financial management and governance», and said the decision to terminate had «not been taken lightly».
Academies minister Lord Nash said at the time that the # 600 million pot would be split down the middle, with # 300 million to be spent on helping «strong and effective» trusts to «grow and improve».
He was responding to a question about whether the independent sector could learn about efficiency savings from MATs, and noted that the new academies minister, Lord Agnew, wants them to have between 10 and 20 schools.
The government's planned teacher vacancy website has taken «much longer than it should have» to develop and is still being built, the academies minister has admitted, though a...
The Labour peer Baroness Donaghy requested the data through a question in the House of Lords in November, but the academies minister Lord Nash would only say the allocations would be published «in due course».
Academies minister Lord Nash (pictured) has previously said schools in trusts would ideally be within an hour's drive of each other.
The government will revise its guidance on home education, the academies minister Lord Agnew has said.
The academies minister Lord Nash and Education Funding Agency chief executive Peter Lauener took questions on academy trusts from MPs this morning.
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