Sentences with phrase «academy conversion»

If they fail to improve or demonstrate a clear plan for improvement, then they face government intervention, which will result in academy conversion.

Yet millions has been spent, and continues to be spent, on academy conversion and transfer — an expensive option when local support has been found to be more effective.

However, it is not the case that schools in this position will in all circumstances face the prospect of a forced academy conversion.

The note makes clear that this includes cooperation with governing bodies of maintained schools who are being encouraged to seek academy conversion.

Recently, as we have had to, we have looked at academy conversion with other schools (as you must now join or set up as a multi academy trust now).

Against this backdrop, many schools may lack the resources to fully explore academy conversion.

There are a number of key steps which need to be taken to achieve academy conversion, involving a variety of legal documentation.

She's ignoring all evidence and advice about academies to push forward even more academy conversion (and eliminate any opposition).

The «ingredients» are likely to have changed: staffing, leadership, governance, likely academy conversion, curriculum.

That was in 2010 before mass academy conversion had even started.

We also have specialist teams in planning, tax, intellectual property, regulatory, property litigation, international arbitration, insolvency and corporate recovery, landed estates, and academy conversions amongst others.

Is the time series analysis consistent, i.e. does it take account of academy conversions?

A funding package of # 1.5 billion has been put aside to support academy conversion and to help schools stay open longer.

In partnership with Optimus Education we are working together in collaboration to deliver pre and post academy conversion support.

One MAT in south London, held an away day with the CEO, as well as the three headteachers of the schools forming the MAT and focused on considering academy conversion and working through these questions.

The NAO found informal interventions such as local support were more effective than former interventions such as academy conversion in improving schools.

Sir David, whose responsibilities include academy conversions and promoting the benefits of MAT membership, may argue that he is in a position to provide specialist oversight of academy expansion.

«In addition to this RSCs provide crucial support to schools by approving academy conversions, recruiting new sponsors and setting up Multi Academy Trusts to provide a structure for sustaining support and raising standards in schools.»

From my experience, issues relating to land tend to be where most problems arise during academy conversions and in order to avoid delays it is advisable to instruct your solicitors to start work on this aspect of the conversion process as early as possible.

Led an outstanding school through academy conversion and submitted a successful teaching school bid for the multi-academy trust

Ms Morgan said academy conversion would only be instigated by commissioners «when — and only when — a coasting school has no credible plan or is not improving sufficiently».

Clause six requires councils to inform the education secretary before requiring a school governing body to begin academy conversion, suspend a delegated budget or appoint additional governors.

Schools Week has been told the government's decision could halt academy conversions and also leave schools facing more redundancies.

Cameron has no defence of forced academy conversion at all.

Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie has warned that some of the UK government's key education policies, such as performance related pay for teachers and increased academy conversion, are a «distraction» that will only have a «minimal» impact on student's learning.

«GCSE results suggest that converting already high - performing schools to academies has little effect on their academic performance, so it's not true to think that academy conversion raises standards across the board,» says Mr Hannay.

«No evidence» that academy conversion improves underperforming schools, study says (Richard Vaughan, TES)

The government is also searching for a sponsor to take over the only secondary school on the Isles of Scilly, which is facing academy conversion after being put in special measures.

The government has offered clarification for what criteria it will use to judge a school as» coasting», with secondary schools that fail ensure 60 per cent of pupils earn five A * - C grades at GCSE including Maths and English facing intervention and possible academy conversion.

The government's flagship school reforms programme of encouraging academy conversion and the opening of new free schools could act to widen educational inequality across the country, according to new analysis.

However, the suggestion of forced academisation drew heavy criticism from teaching unions and the Labour Party, who argued that there was no clear evidence that academy conversion actually raised standards and it would be a waste of money to force successful local authority run schools to convert.

Just as collaboration benefits geese flying in formation, collaborative academy conversion should give a double win.

However, there are more things to consider: for a more detailed breakdown, take a look at our post academy conversion infographic below.

Academy conversions generally fall into one of two categories; voluntary conversion, where the governors of the school voluntarily apply for academy status, and forced or involuntary conversion where a school is eligible for intervention and is issued with an order to close and re-open as an academy with an external sponsor.

Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.

The Academies Commission (2013) warned there was a risk of creating a growing group of «hard - to - place» children as academy conversion expanded.

Clause 10 requires councils and governors to take «all reasonable steps» towards academy conversion of eligible schools.

Sally supports headteacher performance management and works with schools on academy conversion though the NAHT Aspire School Improvement Programme.

Academy conversion didn't appear to be the acclaimed magic bullet for school improvement in these cases.

A «strawberry reception» was then held in the community garden for new parents, new staff, new pupils and special guests before Mrs Jennings enjoyed an extensive tour of the school with the four newly - appointed house captains who were very polite and very proud of how much progress their school has made since academy conversion.

The National Audit Office found this was more effective than formal intervention like academy conversion.

Mark — the NAO (Oct 2014) found struggling schools which received formal intervention (eg academy conversion) were less likely to improve than those which didn't receive formal intervention.

A school whose academy conversion hit the buffers over its controversial PFI deal has been put in special measures.

The importance of multi-academy solutions being the preferred delivery model was further reinforced with the rumours reaching NASBM and the headteacher associations of standalone academy conversions being rejected.

The evidence shows academy conversion isn't the best way to improve schools (the National Audit Office found the opposite).

However, the government said it would push forward with compelling academy conversions in two areas: