Sentences with phrase «academy trusts has»

The measures used to judge the performance of academy trusts has been a contentious one, with view differing across trusts.

For example if an academy trusts has one corporate member, of three members, the sponsor's details may need to be put on the register in certain circumstances.

One of England's largest academy trusts has been issued with a «final warning» by unions over job cuts in what they claim is an unprecedented move that could lead to a strike by staff.

In total, MPs found 12 cases where those connected to academy trusts had benefited personally from contracts awarded by the schools.

Matrix Academy Trust has committed to a review of its recruitment strategy by August 2018, to ensure teachers working there are supported to work in a flexible way.

Seek an early actuarial valuation and agree a repayment term Step 3 — Setting up an Academy Trust and Funding Agreement • This is the stage at which all legal documents need to be agreed with the DfE • The Academy Trust has to be registered with Companies House • Transfer or leasing arrangements for school land needs to be finalised • Completion of TUPE process • Governors complete and close consultation process • Funding Agreement signed by Academy Trust and Secretary of State • Academy opening date set Step 4 — Pre-opening • All CRB checks completed prior to transfer to academy status • Financial systems and contracts with staff and suppliers confirmed • Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put in place

Ministers answered that in 2014 - 15 only four per cent of academy trusts had «cumulative deficit».

The governing body for Durand Academy Trust has come to the decision to close its boarding school, Tes has reported.

According to the Education Funding Agency (EFA), 137 academy trusts have missed the deadline for sending off their financial accounts.

Peter Box, the Labour leader of Wakefield Council, contacted the police over concerns that the academy trust had engaged in «asset - stripping» of its schools, after it emerged that it had transferred money from some of its individual academies to its central accounts.

Astrea Academy Trust has given its teachers a two per cent pay rise, despite only a national government increase of one percent, Tes has reported.

Sam Tse, Head of Finance at the South Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust had a list of key requirements a solution should meet before coming to a decision; including competitive pricing, flexibility and ease of use for both the school and parents.

Baker wrote to ministers in January to complain after a Schools Week investigation found most of England's largest academy trusts had failed to comply with the duty.

For all but three of the schools, only the name and location have been distributed, and in one instance, the name of a school proposed by the Fylde Coast Academy Trust has not even been announced yet.

An academy trust has sacked a school's entire board of governors and suspended eight staff amid exam cheating allegations.

The inner workings of one of the country's most controversial academy trusts have been laid bare in the minutes of trustee meetings, obtained by a Freedom of Information request.

A further education college that has been forced to bankroll improvements to schools in its new academy trust has been dealt another blow after one was rated «inadequate» just five months after the chain was launched.

Another academy trust has been criticised for underperformance by Ofsted in the education watchdog's second focused inspection of an academy chain.

Barnfield Academy Trust has also been released this week from its notice to improve, which had also been issued in February last year to the Moorlands Free School Trust and Barnfield Skills Academy Trust, which have now all merged into one.

But the watchdog says the chief executive of the academy trust had mistakenly been copied into an email with an inspection schedule.

«As a single academy trust we would establish formal links with local 11 to 16 schools to develop shared approaches to quality assurance, shared staffing, professional development and resources,» the consultation said.

Primary school academy trusts have the largest pay gaps between men and women according to new national data — and senior figures are pointing to the high numbers...

The Bright Tribe academy trust has already spent «the majority» of a # 1 million grant to help to encourage expansion in the north of England, despite taking on only three schools in the region, Lord Agnew has revealed.

Another complicating factor is the proposal that academy trusts would no longer have to have parent governors in individual schools or at the trustee level.

But more than 120 academy trusts have been paying at least one member of staff more than this - and some many more.

The Outwood Grange Academies Trust has employer centres that foster employer and alumni involvement

A slew of financial notices to improve for academy trusts have been published this afternoon by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), in the sector's own «Black Friday».

Unlike local authorities, who as we've seen in Northamptonshire have no problem in swiping money from one department to cover emergencies in another, an academy trust has no other pots to raid and can't borrow money to cover a shortfall.

Academy Trusts have almost complete flexibility to design the constitution of their board of trustees as they see fit but must ensure it has the necessary skills and capability to carry out its functions effectively.

An academy trust has been accused of segregating disabled pupils after announcing that it would bus children with special educational needs and disabilities from a well - performing school to a worse school because of limited resources.

Figures obtained by the Labour party in April found more than 40 per cent of academy trusts had made related - party payments in the 2013 - 14 financial year.

A former union president and the chair of one of the country's largest and fastest - growing academy trusts have been appointed to advise the schools commissioner Martin Post.

Not exact matches

The latest academy product to be promoted to the Arsenal first team is the 20 year - old Ainsley Maitland - Niles, who admits that he feels totally relaxed alongside the Gunners top stars after just four starts in the Premier League and he thinks he has already won the trust of his team - mates.

What's the point of having an academy if we can not trust a few of our brightest youngsters to break through.

Chelsea may want to look at the success of Christensen as a reminder that it can pay to trust academy players more, and fans would dearly love to see another John Terry come through after his immense contribution to the club's modern history.

Stroll had already secured the trust of Ferrari and joined its Driver Academy, but he left at the end of the year to move to Williams as a test driver alongside another F3 campaign with front - runners Prema.

He has brought exciting young talent through Liverpool's academy; something which stagnated over the last ten years, but his continued trust in the likes of Dejan Lovren and Ragnar Klaven at the heart of the Liverpool defence is nothing short of criminal.

Also join lots of business Facebook groups and forums — I've learnt so much just from reading through posts from Indie Retail Academy, The Design Trust and local sellers» groups.

Would you want to trust a parenting book written by people who have no related degrees and whose adult children have actively estranged themselves from their parents and that the American Academy of Pediatrics has made a statement against?

According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, children raised with pets have stronger self - esteem and self - confidence, have more trusting relationships with others, and show more compassion, respect, and empathy.

As well as forcing schools to become academies, the government intends to remove the requirement for governing bodies to have parent governors, with multi academy trusts (MAT) being able to close down the governing bodies of individual schools.

Alistair Clark has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy, Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust.

Toby's research has been externally funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation and the McDougall Trust.

Speaking to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust conference, the prime minister accepted that «sometimes the pace of reform has been hard, even confusing».

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Toby S. James has previously received funding from the ESRC, AHRC, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Electoral Commission, International IDEA and the Nuffield Foundation for his work on electoral administration.

«Unlike maintained schools, academies have substantial discretion over the ways in which governance is undertaken and some schools and multi-academy trusts have used this freedom to establish opaque and ambiguous governance structures that undermine effective internal school accountability.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy for chronic pain sufferers.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

I have my doubts about this film and the cast, but if Academy Award nominated director Bennett Miller and Academy award nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgment.