Sentences with phrase «academy and free schools»

That within comprehensive schools under local democratic control — to end the disastrous policy of academies and free schools that is built on schools competing with each other rather than cooperating.

The job of regional schools commissioners is to oversee academies and free schools in their areas, doing a job similar to that of local authorities for council - run schools.

Under the government's academy and free school programme, more schools are taking control of their admissions process.

That is as true for academies and free schools as it is for council - run schools.

The new school standards accompany revised funding agreements for new academies and free schools, including requirements to follow the standards already in place.

Teachers are calling for tackling staff shortages to be made a priority rather than «politically motivated» projects such as academies and free schools.

Well balanced answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about academies and free schools.

All schools should have them, not just academies and free schools.

Some individuals are contracted to fulfil more than one role, but they all focus on taking forward the government's wish to develop more academies and free schools.

Analysis of the government's open academies and free schools databases shows varying growth in academy numbers across the region over the past two years.

Sex and relationship education is already compulsory in all maintained secondary schools and we expect academies and free schools to teach it as part of the curriculum.

As the legislation governing academies and free schools continues to change, this important issue is one we should all be monitoring.

Allowing academies and free schools to hire unqualified teaching staff may lead to a decline in educational standards.

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».

Although academies and free schools can not be run for profit, many are run by private, non-profit making organisations - some of which run «chains» of several schools.

One way around the problem would be to hand local authorities the power to compel academies and free schools to expand instead, she said.

In the case of academies and free schools, it should not be used to teach existing PE curriculum.

The government's academies and free schools programme - where schools are run by independent organisations but outside of local authority influence - aims to improve failing schools.

She will oversee almost 800 academies and free schools in the region.

They will be mandatory in all maintained schools, and new academies and free schools.

Under current rules, sex and relationship education is only compulsory in council - run secondary schools, but not for academies and free schools, or for primary school pupils.

Finally, many people have been concerned by the government's decision to exempt most academies and free schools from the existing school food standards.

The Education Select Committee report on Academies and Free Schools identified concerns that the voice of parents can be marginalised in some academies.

[81] In 2014, Gove's department acceded to the BHA's campaign by banning creationism from being taught as science in state - funded English schools, including Academies and Free Schools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evolution.

Last year's education select committee report into academies and free schools put it baldly: «Current evidence does not allow us to draw conclusions on whether academies in themselves are a positive force for change.»

It is official government policy to create a «more diverse school system» with academies and free schools liberated from some state controls.

While the Government pursues its unnecessary and expensive academies and Free Schools agenda, the majority of schools and colleges are left struggling to cope with the effects of cuts to schools», colleges» and local authorities» budgets.

Finally, many people have been concerned by the government's decision to exempt most academies and free schools from the existing school food standards.

The Education Secretary maintained the Department for Education had already issued 122 warning notices to underperforming academies and free schools and changed the sponsor in 118 cases.

Another option is the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC), which is the largest purchasing consortium for the English academies and free schools sectors, and the only national purchasing group for UK Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

I would stop the chaotic and expensive academy and free schools projects that have cost the taxpayer billions, much of it wasted on management and brokers» fees.

Delegates at the conference in Liverpool approved a motion criticising academies and free schools and rejected an amendment tabled by Baroness Walmsley, a party spokeswoman on education.

He also pointed out the «outstanding» Progress 8 scores of converter academies and free schools, which came joint top of all school types.

Devolving power to English regions and cities could offer a real chance to introduce more local oversight of the way academies and free schools are being managed.

Improving school performance through academy and free schools status is important, but it will not be enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils in England's schools, according to a new collection of essays published by the think tank IPPR.

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A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: «Currently, only academies and free schools have the freedom to prioritise children eligible for the pupil premium or service premium [for the children of military personnel] or both.

«Education on sex and relationships is compulsory in all maintained secondary schools, and many academies and free schools teach it as part of the curriculum.

«It can not be considered efficient if the Coalition Government writes off more than # 160 million of tax payers» money and yet, at the same time, persists with a policy of creating academies and free schools that are both expensive and unwanted by the public.

«The IAA is the only membership organisation solely dedicated to supporting academy and free school leaders and attracting increasing numbers of like - minded converters, primary, special and free schools.

And the NASUWT teachers union said the government was «wasting money to bankroll its ideologically driven academies and free schools».

A high court showdown between a former Ofsted chair and the consultancy firm where she worked has revealed details of how a private company planned to make profits from running state - funded academies and free schools.

«It highlights issues that the NASUWT predicted would occur when the current academies and free schools programme was conceived by the Coalition.

We already have eight regional schools commissioners, who take on key decisions regarding academies and free schools, so perhaps the number and remit will change, especially as the free schools programme will be terminated.

We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever before.