I strongly recommend the legal services provided by Harrison Clark Rickerbys to schools converting to
academy status without reservation.
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.
Not exact matches
Allowing unqualified teachers into the classroom — as Michael Gove has done in
academies and free schools —
without any pathway to achieve qualified
status creates a dangerous precedent.
«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.
Among staff working in schools
without academy status, only 10 per cent of senior leaders and seven per cent of teachers think the extra autonomy has a beneficial effect in the classroom.
One consequence of the slow drift towards
academy status is that 11 schools subsequently came out of special measures even
without conversion.