Sentences with phrase «academisation planned»
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.
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The risks involved with signing up to construction contracts, and the ongoing complexities arising from academisation plans, require a legal perspective.
Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell, who addressed the conference after Mr Gibb, said the government needed to rethink its forced academisation plan.
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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.
Powell told Corbyn that she had enjoyed her role, which included pushing the government to drop plans for forced academisation of schools.
However, its plans for increased academisation have faced opposition from teaching unions, who warn there is no solid proof that turning schools into academies will help to improve standards.
For many people in education and beyond, the grand Goveian plan of mass academisation still grates.
«We would urge the Government to re-consider its plans for full academisation and to focus on working with councils to ensure all our children get the excellent education they deserve.»
2016 has left us with a number of crucial issues to consider and address, including: the impact that Brexit may have on education; the government's plans for academisation and the subsequent U-turn on the plans; the reintroduction of grammar schools; and the continuing teacher recruitment and retention crises.
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.
The head teachers» union also plans to debate issues such as forced academisation, assessment and British values in schools, over the weekend.
«For Ofsted to have reneged on it is a serious matter, and it's clear that the DfE is employing all sorts of tactics to get heads to agree to its plans for academisation.»