Sentences with phrase «academisation as»

The headteacher says she has nothing against academisation as a way forward for some schools.

Carole Willis, the chief executive of the National Foundation for Education Research, welcomed «anything that gives schools greater clarity around accountability» but warned against «placing too much emphasis on using academisation as a silver bullet».

Not exact matches

The decision comes after head teachers across England had suggested that they could go on strike as a result of forced academisation.

«Tomorrow, armed with the provisions of the Education and Adoption Bill, the Government will use these statements as the justification to ride roughshod over the views of parents and local communities and embark on a programme of academisation.

This suggests that Labour is happy with academisation so long as it is not forced.

Chris Keates: «It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Secretary of State is selecting criteria to define coasting schools to maximise the opportunity for extending academisation.»

Sadly, most of the attacks on us made by the Tories, such as creeping privatisation of the NHS, academisation of schools, and PFI, originated with recent Labour governments.

Wanting to take the step towards academisation on his own terms, he joined other schools in Northampton who started working together to form NPAT as equal partners, not built on the back of a top - down sponsor.

«As far as measures of attainment go, the benefits of academisation have yet to be demonstrateAs far as measures of attainment go, the benefits of academisation have yet to be demonstrateas measures of attainment go, the benefits of academisation have yet to be demonstrated.

Academisation means SBMs are facing increasingly complicated and diverse duties just as the support from local authority services disappear.

The data identified widespread regional variations in the spread of academisation, with areas such as Bournemouth, Darlington and Middlesborough containing a high percentage of converted schools, compared with West Berkshire, Camden and Brighton and Hove, where there are no converted academies.

Bett Academies has been developed as a national centre of excellence, providing information, guidance and inspiration for senior leaders in academies, MATs and schools exploring academisation.

However, this is not due to increased rate of academisation in primary schools, as growth in the proportion of schools becoming academies has been steadily falling across both phases in recent years, but the decline in growth in the secondary sector has been steeper.

There is no suggestion that the KPIs mean that schools are being specifically targeted for academisation, though one union head described its inclusion as an RSC performance measure as «extremely worrying».

He also spoke of his desire to see council education staff set up and run multi-academy trusts, but said conversations would have to happen «quite soon», with primary schools that looked to local authorities for support facing a change in that relationship as a result of forced academisation.

First, that the «fragmenting» of the school system through academisation has cut out more than just local authorities — but also many services, such as educational psychologists, sports partnerships, and joined - up youth offender initiatives.

«Parents who have campaigned against the opaque and centralised process of academisation will be dismayed to see themselves dismissed as obstacles to be eliminated.»

I was fortunate to teach in strong science departments, that were well equipped for practical work, as were all UK schools until the recent Academisation (your Charter Schools) and increasing marketisation of our education system on the US model.

Writing in The Guardian last month, Warwick Mansell pointed out that of the 447 schools rated inadequate, more than one in four — 123 — had failed their Ofsted a year or more ago and had not yet converted to academy status, or been recorded by the DfE as planned for academisation.

Teaching unions have long argued that academisation has been used as a way of privatising the school system, while the government says it is about introducing innovation.

The head teachers» union also plans to debate issues such as forced academisation, assessment and British values in schools, over the weekend.

So I want to move away from forced academisation being seen as this punitive threat that can also hang over schools that are not failing.

The government still has not given any consideration as to how to drive up standards in those schools where academisation has not brought about any improvement.

She says she was angry to think that her school, which was found to have serious weaknesses, rather than being in the more critical category of needing special measures, was already being talked of as a candidate for academisation before she had been properly informed about what Ofsted had written in its report.

The school, she says, is now improving and had been recognised as improving by Ofsted — proof that academisation was not the only way to proceed.