Sentences with phrase «academy sponsors given»
Nicky Morgan announced in November the five academy sponsors given half of a # 10 million war chest to drive up standards, including setting up seven new academy hubs in five targeted northern areas.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ Not exact matches
Abbott Ross, makers of Similac infant formula, were among the top three corporate sponsors of the AAP in 2002.1 Formula companies historically give money to the academy through renewable annual grants, and also contributed $ 3 million to the construction of the AAP's headquarters in Illinois.2 It is unclear to what extent this has affected the policies of the AAP, however both the use of pacifiers and the separation of mother and baby are impediments to a healthy breastfeeding relationship and increase the chance of mothers switching to formula.
This is the first academy chain to give up all of its schools, of which five of the 12 sponsored by the group are rated as «inadequate».
Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»
The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.
However, in the studies we looked at, a majority of converter and sponsored academies report that they give support to other schools, and secondary academies, larger academies and converter academies are more likely to do this.
Funds are only given to trusts supporting either an «inadequate» - rated maintained school that is not converting to academy status, or an «inadequate» academy which is not moving sponsor.
«With a shortage of academy sponsors and struggling schools currently in the dark about their future the simplest remedy is to give councils the power to turn these schools around where this is the best option locally.»
A second trust given a slice of # 5 million northern academy hub funding has walked away from a school in special measures — meaning it has now been in limbo waiting for a permanent sponsor for six years.
«The government must commit to removing the unnecessary red tape and give high performing maintained schools the option of becoming academy sponsors.
The consultation also proposes removing University Technical Colleges and studio schools from the «sponsor - led academy» label, and giving them their own category.
The boards and their regulators will be given delegated powers, allowing them «to investigate and change the sponsors and management of failing academies or free schools», according to the Guardian, which has seen a leaked document on the plan.
Given the urgency of improvement, and the simultaneous need to tighten rigour in sponsor commissioning, the Department for Education (DfE) should allow RSCs to expand their pools of school improvement providers beyond academy sponsors
Despite the setback, the DfE said it expected the rate of academy conversions to increase, bolstered by the Education and Adoption Act that came into force in March, giving the department extra powers to intervene in «coasting» schools and have them taken over by academy sponsors.
«Those schools that are sponsored by academies, you can see the improvement in their results since they were taken over and given that extra independence and that extra assistance.»
You say that not all schools seeking sponsors are failing, and the first example you gave is the six academies left behind by Prospects.
And what has happened to WCAT's share of the # 5m given out to «top performing» academy sponsors tasked with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country»?
The fellowship, sponsored by Chubb, is the highest honor the Academy bestows, and is given... Read More
Given that the Central Intelligence Agency was one of the main sponsors of the Academy report on atmospheric intervention and a companion volume on carbon dioxide removal from air, there's also plenty of room for conspiracy theories.