Sentences with phrase «academy status»

And I seem to recall that primaries can now apply for academy status.

«There is at present no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools,» says the report.

The proportion of primary schools with academy status is lower, at around one in 11, but is also growing.

The data also shows that converted academies, which were high performing schools, upgraded into academy status had 63 per cent of pupils achieving 5 + A * - C grades.

There is no compelling evidence to suggest that academy status improves pupil performance, a new report argues.

By taking academy status, schools will receive their funding directly from central government and will have greater autonomy over how they are run.

One consequence of the slow drift towards academy status is that 11 schools subsequently came out of special measures even without conversion.

Freedom and autonomy were the magnetic words used as encouragement for accepting academy status.

Given the advantages, perhaps it is not surprising that many schools that convert to academy status consider the possibilities for improving management as one of the main advantages.

It is clear from those conversations that the impact academies have in transforming young people's life chances is widely accepted and that more and more schools are keen to embrace academy status.

Control of financial matters is a strong advantage for many who choose to convert, as academy status allows a school to invest funds in its own priorities.

Depending on a school's position before they enter academy status for some, managing their own finances and meeting the demands of legislation may be a significant challenge.

An event designed to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of academies and schools in the process of obtaining academy status, is set to take place next month.

However, many academies have enjoyed greater educational attainment and the freedoms offered by academy status remain a draw for many schools.

The results indicated that nearly three quarters of those converting to academy status believed that, in addition to greater freedoms, conversion would also benefit the school financially.

The combination of the regulations and statutory guidance means that schools that convert voluntarily to academy status always take their balances with them, whether they are in surplus or deficit.

The principal advantages to school leaders of academy status are that they are exempt from the national curriculum and the national pay regulations for teachers.

Over time the policy shifted so that schools with other ratings could also voluntarily apply for academy status.

The new plans mean almost 17,000 schools which have not been converted into academy status must have committed to do so by 2020.

If such a report were given to local authority maintained schools, they would be forced to accept academy status.

Schools taking academy status will become independent schools, with their assets becoming the responsibility of trusts, which will be run as charitable companies.

Since our conversion to Academy status in September 2015 we still promote the same key findings of past inspections, none more so than those commented on in our

«We want as many schools as possible to take advantage of the significant benefits academy status brings because it means more schools run by great heads and teachers, not local authority or Whitehall bureaucrats, and more children getting a first - class education.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

The NASUWT will be requesting the following information from any school which is granted academy status for 1 September 2010.

Even if academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a big expansion in academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for academy chains that are underperforming.

Studying the association between academy status for primary and secondary schools and their pupils» attainment in the Key Stage 2 tests and GCSE exams from last year, NFER claims that there is no significant difference between the performance of primary academies and maintained schools.

They have helped more schools move to academy status without disrupting education and have come together to secure formal recognition for their roles, culminating in the publication of national professional standards in November and the launch of the National School Business Management Qualifications Board under the stewardship of NASBM.

The heads ask MPs what happened to # 500m announced as part of the abandoned plan for compulsory academy status for all schools in England.

PRUs that convert to academy status become alternative provision (AP) academies.

Thirty per cent of academy senior leaders who took part in a poll on the additional autonomy that comes from academy status said it had «no effect» at all in the classroom, while 18 per cent said it had a negative impact.

Schools Week also reported last week how Noel - Baker school, a PFI school in Derby, was rated inadequate by Ofsted with inspectors blaming «messy and protracted» talks over academy status having a «negative impact on vital school improvement work».

While many would argue over whether academy status helps or hinders schools, Miss Cassady says the freedom of being an academy and the support she has received from the sponsor has made her job easier.

Jon Richards (pictured below), Unison's head of education, said: «Ministers claim academy status gives heads a greater degree of autonomy over the running of their schools.

Whilst the conversion process enables a school to achieve academy status, when you're ready to reopen as an academy the support continues.

«I think one of the priorities for our board is going to be to encourage, and promote, and ensure that primaries that apply for academy status do so either with a partner or in a group so that there's robust capacity in the primaries that become academies.»

Mr Wragg, who lives in his constituency, says he is broadly supportive of his party's curriculum changes, but says schools should not be over-zealous in pursuing academy status.

Many academies include its terms in teachers» contracts and it will continue to apply by law to teachers who worked at the school before it adopted academy status.

details of any advice received from the local authority or the DfE on the acquisition of academy status by the school;.

And my guess is that the overall level of satisfaction of many parents with their children's primary played a part in last year's revolt over the proposed — but then abandoned - structural upheaval of forced academy status for all of them.

copies of any correspondence - electronic or otherwise - which took place between the local authority and the school and the DfE and the school regarding academy status;.

«The indecent haste with which some outstanding schools have rushed to apply for, and secure, academy status means that a number appear to have cut corners in terms of consultation with staff and trade unions.

Two: «We envisage academy status — with all the freedoms it brings to generate success freedoms which have been used brilliantly here will become the norm for state schools.»

There is no evidence that Academy status enhances standards, and all the evidence shows that they are hurdles and barriers to schools working together, which is vital in these tough economic times.»

We must also completely oppose academies and free schools instead of having the daft position of not opposing the former (because it was originally a Labour policy — despite it being a very bad one) but opposing the latter when the only legal difference in law is that academies are maintained schools that have converted to academy status while free schools are «starter» academies.

According to Labour, 15,632 schools in England are not yet academies and on average converting to academy status costs # 44,837.

He would then see what excellent work goes on day in, day out in those schools which haven't chosen academy status.»

Between the 2002 - 2003 and 2008 - 2009 academic school years, 116 of England's state secondary schools gained academy status.

«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.