Sentences with phrase «academisation by»

TCMAT's annual accounts state they were approached and advised during academisation by Telford and Wrekin Council.

So the inference that «poor» local authorities should be stripped of all schools is another bit of weaselly nonsense aimed at getting to full academisation by stealth if it can not be achieved though direct means.

Not exact matches

Concealed by the wider process of «academisation» of state schools in England is the biggest surge of religious influence in our education system in a generation

An investigation by the Education Select Committee found no conclusive evidence that academisation had improved standards at primary schools.

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.

Academisation «does not automatically raise standards» and many local authority run schools are outperforming academies, according to new research published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

Changes to accountability announced by education secretary Damian Hinds mean that poorly performing schools no long face forced academisation on data alone.

The government has announced its ambition for every school to become an academy by 2020, despite backtracking on forced academisation.

The research also found that academisation continues to vary by region and phase, but suggests that these variations «do not appear to be due to the number if underperforming schools».

«We have remained strong in our opposition to all forced academisation, and this opposition has been echoed by MPs, teachers and parents.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

Brian Lightman, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, has responded by warning that «academisation is not a magic wand».

Her claims have today been shot down by unions who say the new figures prove academisation isn't a silver bullet for failing schools.

This annual report on education standards, presented by Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, said that «undoubtedly, academisation injected more vigour and competition into the system».

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

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.

Schools deemed coasting will no longer face the threat of forced academisation or a change of sponsor following a U-turn due to be announced by the education secretary today.

This timely transfer was matched by two other primary schools, with academisation already underway during the inspection.

If this was to be the case then all the escalating damage to our pupils and the continuing degradadation of our education system caused by academisation and marketisation would rapidly be halted.

She denied this: «I would strongly push back on the suggestion that any of this situation in Birmingham is caused either by academisation or because of changes in local government finance.

In a letter sent on July 17, seen by Schools Week, Hewett principal Tom Leverage reassured parents that despite academisation, the school's uniform would remain unchanged in September, but that the school council would «discuss» the issue in the autumn term following «complaints and concerns» by parents and pupils.

Schools deemed coasting will no longer face the threat of forced academisation or a change of sponsor following a U-turn due to be announced by the education secretary...

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.

Roy Perry of the Local Government Association said: «We are delighted that the government is listening to our strong opposition to forced academisation, which has been echoed by MPs, teachers and parents and backed up by evidence.»

He believes that heads who have come forward to the NAHT to complain about overbearing tactics to force them into academisation are «only the tip of the iceberg» and that many schools are too cowed by the pressures to become academies to complain about them.

In follow - up reports, Ofsted inspectors have sometimes noted that dealing with the pressures to agree to academisation has itself been a conflicting pressure on a headteacher's time when the school was dealing with the issues raised by the initial unsatisfactory Ofsted report.

Whilst academisation may have other benefits and be especially suited to certain circumstances it is difficult to envisage how it can achieve the transformations that everyone in the education arena wishes to see, without being harnessed to a more holistic approach that enables more effective day to day, moment by moment, learning opportunities.

There is another equally compelling reason for forced academisation which can only come about by forcing the process.

The government must ensure its vision for full academisation is backed up by the resources that schools and young people need.»

Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell said: «Most of the schools which will be affected by its forced academisation programme are highly performing primary schools.