Sentences with phrase «academy sponsors taking»

Consequently, the local authority remains the appropriate body until the academy sponsor takes over at a date yet to be confirmed.»

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At academy level, Michael Duff stepped up as under - 23 coach with Danny Cadamarteri coming in to take over the youth team, and he'll be getting an early trip to Prague as the team take part in the Generali Cee Cup, the trip being sponsored by the Up the Clarets Youth Foundation.
Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.
An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.
The academies programme started under Labour, targeting low - performing schools that were taken over by a sponsor.
«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.
One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.
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.
Nutritious Champions Manchester Health Academy in Wythenshawe, took home the School Catering Award sponsored by ParentPay.
«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.»
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.
Special needs education Centre Academy in South London took the SEN Provision Award, sponsored by leading special needs charity nasen.
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.
Murley runs his entrepreneurship classes, electives within the school's business academy, with help from the NFTE, using the group's curriculum and taking part in a business - plan competition the foundation sponsors.
«UCL was the first university in the country to have taken the step of becoming the sole sponsor of an academy because we believe that in sharing facilities, expertise and providing support to teachers and pupils, the partnership can bring about a fundamental improvement in the educational experience of pupils in the school and beyond.»
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.
Where Ofsted rates an academy as «inadequate», the school can face «instant intervention», which could mean being rapidly taken over by another sponsor.
In a half - hearted attempt to provide a degree of balance, the article quotes the ISC's claims about how the academies sponsored by private schools were in a bad position when they were taken over.
The status of the DfE's guarantee has been unclear and as your article says, the new sponsor of any MAT or academy and presumably any FE college will be expected to take on the deficit.
Three of the four schools run by Midland Academies Trust, which is sponsored by North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, are rated «requires improvement»; two have fallen from «good» since the trust took over and another only recently rose from «inadequate».
A local authority has taken the unusual step of pleading with a regional schools commissioner for an inadequate academy to get a new sponsor.
Under the bill, the regional commissioners would take on the responsibility for making academy orders, and the requirement for potential academy sponsors to consult with the local community would be scrapped.
And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust.
«Where academies are underperforming, we take action - this can involve issuing a pre-warning notice and ultimately changing the sponsor if there is no improvement.»
Sandown Bay Academy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England Primary School to become an all - through academy, the BBC has reAcademy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England Primary School to become an all - through academy, the BBC has reacademy, the BBC has reported.
That is why we are identifying consistently weak schools and allowing experienced academy sponsors to take them over.
We question whether the eight named «preferred» academy trust sponsors have the capacity and track record to take on these schools.
When a school is deemed «failing», either in or outside a chain, commissioners currently go to their list of approved academy sponsors to find a chain to take it over.
The school may be told to become an academy or take on a new sponsor.
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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.
That bill was introduced to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of dealing with failing schools by taking them out of local authority control and putting them in the hands of 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.»
In some cases where we have taken on existing academies there may also be additional documents that vary the agreements with the previous academy sponsor.
Maintained schools that convert to become sponsor - led academies, whose predecessor schools were most recently judged good or outstanding, are treated as new schools for inspection purposes and are subject to a section 5 inspection as their first inspection; this will normally take place within three years of the school becoming a sponsor - led academy.
«Over the last five years the government found it difficult to secure enough quality sponsors to take on just 5,000 academies.
Ahead of the National Primary School Offer Day new figures reveal that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies - where education experts and leading headteachers take over the running of the school.
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.
And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body.
The Cumbria Education Trust has been identified as the preferred sponsor for Whitehaven Academy, and the North East Learning Trust has been picked to take on Grindon Hall.
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Now, Intuit Academy is sponsoring the Success in the Cloud webinar series with Michelle Long to help accounting professionals take it to the next level.
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