Sentences with phrase «academy sponsors include»
Reform recommends a more holistic approach to commissioning, where funding agreements for academy sponsors include a section on pupil outcomes in addition to assurances on financial propriety.
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For example, this year's Academy Awards corporate sponsors included Rolex, Swarovski, and Walmart — all brands with deep enough pockets to buy their way into Hollywood's biggest night.
This book contains the proceedings of a conference of the same title sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, and includes forty - two essays by a distinguished group of scholars in the sciences and humanities.
Local sponsors include Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration (HTCC) and the Tarrant County Chapter of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.
In England, there are several types of academies, including sponsored and converter academies and free schools.
COMPETES codified many of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, including to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA - E) to sponsor «creative, out - of - the - box, transformational» energy research.
Berman faculty have led or served on committees of the National Academy of medicine related to human and to animal research and led work for the National Cancer Institute creating model national guidance on informed consent; Berman faculty have served on multiple Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for federally and privately funded trials including the recent NIH sponsored ebola trials.
The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.
As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipality.
Since September 2010, 2,949 Primary Schools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academy trust.
A DfE spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.
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.
Their duties, according to the job advert, include monitoring performance and intervening in underperforming academies, managing academy trusts, sponsors and local authorities, and providing strategic advice to RSCs and ministers.
However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.
Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.
A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.
Or, it could be that all the sponsored inadequate academies are included — in which case I am still concerned about the lack of effect.
When only those on roll by year 11 were included, sponsored academies had a 46.3 per cent pass rate for five GCSEs at A * to C.
Now, it could be the researchers didn't include the 1,200 post-2010 sponsored academies in this inadequate category and so the lack of positive effect reflects the oddness of an exclusive small group.
The government wants to expand the role of the commissioners, to include decisions on whether underperforming and «coasting» schools should become sponsored academies.
The documents include the criteria for approving free schools and academy sponsors.
Schools originally classed as new by Ofsted included free schools, sponsored and converter academies, school amalgamations, mergers, university technical colleges and studio schools.
He added: «We know that for some academies there is more to do - which is hardly surprising when many of these are most likely to include sponsored academies which have a history of low performance in their former schools.»
Richland Academy of the Arts in Mansfield dropped seven of the 10 schools it sponsored, including OAK.
«Failure is not an Option,» a study sponsored by the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio State University, focused on nine top urban schools, including MC2STEM and the excellent - rated Citizens Academy charter school, also in Cleveland.
As previously, we included chains in our analysis only if they had at least three academies in 2015, and at least two sponsored secondary academies for a three year period from September 2012 — sufficient time for the sponsor chain to impact performance.
It will be chaired by professor of education Sonia Blandford, and will include academy sponsor representatives, academy heads and Blackpool Council.
Other indicators include the quality of sponsors in the region and the quality of academies in the area.
Other barred sponsors include some of the country's larger chains, such as Academies Enterprise Trust and CfBT Education Trust.
Advisers work in a range of different roles including identifying and developing new academy sponsors, ensuring academies and free schools open successfully and tackling underperformance.
The not - for - profit company specialises in primary academies and says it is «building a thriving community of schools including converter and sponsored primary academies».
Our most recent research using the 2014 GCSE results (which excluded many vocational qualifications from counting towards school performance, and reduced the contribution to the total point score of those qualifications included) suggests the improvement was because of disproportionate use of GCSE equivalent qualifications in sponsored academies compared to similar maintained schools.
By calling the science «still incomplete,» Bush also lent new credibility to the tiny handful of industry - sponsored «greenhouse skeptics» who have been thoroughly discredited by the mainstream community of climate researchers — including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and ominous.
For example, at every PCMH meeting I have attended — including the annual Conference on Practice Improvement sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians — I was pleasantly surprised to find that everyone knew about the medical assisting profession, and many knew about CMAs (AAMA).