Sentences with phrase «academy sponsors on»

Another school commissioner, Rebecca Clark, who oversees the academies programme in the South West, told the committee the need to get new potential academy sponsors on board was a «very real priority» for her and her colleagues.

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The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are announce that all Viewers Choice Winners will be announced and livestreamed on February 21st, direct from California.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the 8th Annual TASTE AWARDS will take place on February 21st in Beverly Hills.

The Academy has not supported controversial nutrition policies that might upset corporate sponsors, such as limits on soft drink sizes, soda taxes, or GMO labels;

Focusing on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and sponsored by the British Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.

The agency's Healthy Relationship Training Academy sponsors workshops on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.

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«Your proposals, and the concomitant encroachment on the independent status of Academies, seriously impact upon the ability of sponsors, governors and principals to lead and manage their institutions effectively and efficiently, placing at risk the transformational change in the education system the programme was designed to facilitate.»

This decision had lasting effects on the academy, according to an academy - sponsored poster exhibit and a hefty exhibit catalog released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the «Anschluss,» the annexation of Austria to Germany in March 1938.

This article discusses the efforts of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) sponsored jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

Juday made his remarks at a workshop here sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board on climate and ecosystem changes at both poles.

The international summit on gene editing, sponsored by Britain's Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academies, has grappled with such thorny questions during three days of sometimes - heated discussion on editing the human genome that comes to a close today.

His story was the inspiration for the panel discussion «Crazy or Brilliant: Betting on High - Risk, High - Reward Science,» sponsored by DISCOVER and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.

Jointly sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences and The Kavli Foundation, the Kavli Frontiers of Science bring together some of the very best young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields in a format that encourages informal collective, as well as one - on - one discussions among participants.

Leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on February 26 presented exciting updates on the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative in a congressional briefing sponsored by the American Brain Coalition, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Society for Neuroscience in cooperation with the

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 nonprofit Independent Film Project, which sponsors the awards, will present them on the beach in Santa Monica on Feb. 26, the day before the Academy Awards.

The Academy will be sponsoring an event call «The Sound Behind the Image III: Real Horrorshow» on Thursday, Ocotber 29, or one week from today.

The Department should reinforce and consistently apply tests of financial risk and due diligence to all academies and trustees, building on those used for prospective sponsors.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

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.

These brand new schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

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.

Ofsted has a role in advising the EFA and SCG on the decommissioning of academies (through batched inspections), but is not formally involved in finding new sponsors or establishing new contracts.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

* 15 — Accountability: National Conference on Adequate Yearly Progress: Progress and Challenges, sponsored by the Academy for Educational Development, for K - 12 administrators, teachers, and education policy makers, at the AED Conference Center in Washington.Contact: Ashley Carlton or Mairin Brady, Washington Partners, 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20005; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.WPLLC.net.

Focus Education, which is set to host a series of «Becoming an Academy» events this summer providing insight and guidance on how to approach the transition, is the sponsor of the charitable multi-academy trust, Focus Trust, which was established in 2013.

The academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an on - site primary.

At Bett Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his GoAcademies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Goacademies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Goacademies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.

I will also be examining the impact this scheme had on the number of university applications, before turning my attention to the subsequent evolution of the academies and how they grew and developed under the Coalition Government with its converter and sponsor academies.

Students voted on their favorite design, and the winner was submitted to the Toys of the Future project sponsored by the Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania.

16 - 17, 17 - 18 — Outcome - based education: Conference on quality schools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 at the...

8 - 9 — Professional development: Workshops on a variety of subjects, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for all educators, to be held in New Orleans, La..

A focus on sport The Sports Award, sponsored by Air Structures International, went to the Harefield Academy in Middlesex.

«Although happy to support the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, we understand that it is a competitive process and that a final decision on the sponsor will be taken by the Secretary of State.»

There is some evidence that sponsored secondary academies have had a positive effect on pupil performance, as the examples below indicate.

NFER reports that the distribution of schools falling below floor standards does not reveal any clear patterns that would explain why some RSCs have a higher proportion of sponsored academies than others, but it does posit that potential reason could be a lack of suitable sponsors willing to take on underperforming schools.

The Academy is delivered in partnership with a national construction company, which sponsored the capital build and design costs and has committed to taking all graduates on as apprentices for the next 2/3 years.

On a floor above the main hall, an expo center had been set up, with companies like McGraw - Hill, Connections Academy, K12 Inc., proud sponsors of the event, providing information on how to work with politicians to make education technology a realitOn a floor above the main hall, an expo center had been set up, with companies like McGraw - Hill, Connections Academy, K12 Inc., proud sponsors of the event, providing information on how to work with politicians to make education technology a realiton how to work with politicians to make education technology a reality.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

Free schools are brand new schools set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

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.

Asked how the KPIs would be used, a spokesperson for the DfE said: «The role of the regional schools commissioners is to tackle underperformance in academies and free schools, taking decisions on academy conversions and encouraging strong sponsors into the market to support struggling schools.

It is run by the educational trust CfBT, which already sponsors two academies and is working on two further free school proposals.

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

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.

Run by the academy sponsoring chain ARK, this primary school will open on a temporary site in the Queen's Park area of north Westminster in September.