Sentences with phrase «academy trusts in»

The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one of the most vulnerable groups of pupils — those with special needs — do not make it into leading academy trusts in such large numbers.

Lucky there weren't so many of those private - sector academy trusts in Northamptonshire siphoning school money out of the public purse and the schools had the reassurance of a publicly accountable local authority looking after the finances.

The situation echoes other conversions in which the Department for Education has approved a branch of the church to run academy trusts in which faith - ethos schools are in the minority.

«Nevertheless, the general sense from the literature and the evidence collected for this study is that the checks and balances on academy trusts in relation to conflicts of interest are still too weak.

Ofsted is already investigating claims that a number of schools in academy trusts in Norfolk were given advance warning of when inspections were going to be carried out.

We're not talking about extra money for buildings but assistance for academy trusts in financial difficulties.

Some academy trusts in England stand accused of paying «unjustifiably» high salaries to trustees and depriving «the front line of vital funds.»

NSN's Delivery team is here to support academy trusts in meeting the rising demand for good school places.

Working for one of the leading and largest academy trusts in the country, and liaising directly with heads and teachers every day, there is huge scope to shape the futures of tens of thousands of children and young people, which is enormously exciting.

In further signs of the creeping influence of the Church in the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary school.

Hourglass Education recruitment agency recently recruited 43 Jamaican teachers for an academy trust in Hayes, west London, in one trip to the country, with a potential 21 more to follow.

Tall Oaks Academy Trust in Gainsborough has scrapped its experimental holiday calendar it introduced to alleviate cost pressures and reduce term - time absences.

RSC Tim Coulson has resigned from his role to become chief executive of the Samuel Ward Academy Trust in Suffolk.

Whether we like it or not, it appears that more and more schools will become «married» as part of a Multi Academy Trust in the years ahead; leaving behind their relative independence (and the varying quality of parenting provided by different Local Authorities) in order to enter into an often polygamous lifelong partnership with other schools.

Leigh Academies Trust in Dartford decided to look at ways to combat stress in school staff by using Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) with the use of an Alpha - Stim Device.

His words were echoed by Jarlath O'Brien, the director for schools at the Eden Academy trust in Middlesex, who «strongly recommended» the boards speak to local SEND experts.

Stand - alone academies Wilnecote High School near Birmingham, Langley Park School for Boys in south London and the Cathedral C of E Academy Trust in Wakefield, plus the multi-academy trust owned former Rydens Enterprise School in Surrey, and Grindon Hall Christian School in Sunderland, all made large payments to departing staff in 2015 - 16 without seeking government permission first.

Keresley Newland, a thriving Primary Academy in Warwickshire which joined the NET Academies Trust in March 2015, has been working alongside Warwickshire County Council and local families to improve understanding of the importance of attendance.

Pank Patel (pictured), former RSC for the Midlands, had told the Leap academy trust in July that it could start the closure process after a government investigation found «financial irregularity» and «significant weaknesses» in financial oversight.

The school has seen sharp improvements in results and behaviour since they first started working with Outwood Academies Trust in May 2011, a year after being placed in special measures:

Quinn, the former executive principal and chief executive of Ninestiles academy trust in Birmingham, has been in post for less than two months.

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has issued the warning to The LEAP Academy Trust in relation to the Baverstock Academy in Kings Heath.

However, the remaining four schools all converted within the timeline, with one, Denaby Main Primary, moving to Astrea Academy Trust in a rapid four months.

Inspectors also praised the role of NET Academies Trust in their report:

Overseeing the transition of Perry Beeches: Carter oversaw the closing down of the controversial Perry Beeches Academy Trust in Birmingham, after a government investigation discovered it had funnelled # 1.3 million to a private company without following proper procedures.

There was only one multi academy trust — Connect Academy Trust in Plymouth — where there was no gap.

An academy trust in Warwickshire is reviewing its pay policies after it emerged it paid one headteacher more than # 270,000 a year, despite having only two schools.

As reported by Schools Week last month, an academy trust in Gainsborough cut the traditional six - week summer break by one week, adding an extra week's holiday elsewhere to the school year.

Dave Baker, executive head of Olympus Academy Trust in South Gloucestershire, said in - school programmes such as School Direct and Teach First may help balance out the requirement for extra language teachers.

Ros McMullen, who was a head for 15 years, most recently at the top of the LEAF Academy Trust in Yorkshire, said she had never known a pupil and teacher at - odds over whether an exam should be re-marked, but said schools were likely to choose «the hassle of a re-mark over the hassle of an appeal».

And a chief finance officer post is available at Oak Trees Academy Trust in the Wirral for a salary of # 50,000, which requires the candidate to juggle the finances of primary schools and «lead the development of the trust's growth strategy and sustainability plan».

The regional schools commissioner first pushed to remove schools from Wakefield City Academies trust in December 2016, though it took nine more months before any official announcements were...

Her recent highlights include successfully defending South Hunsley Academy Trust in judicial review proceedings, which challenged the decision to close a swimming pool and redeploy the space for academic use; representing Asda in a dispute with a developer concerning Asda's obligations to purchase land for a supermarket development; and advising Network Rail on a redevelopment project in London.

Not exact matches

The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science found that when someone feels like another person is listening intently, he or she becomes more invested in the relationship and trusts even more.

Graphic Packaging International's (GPI) European Marketing Manager, Rakhee Karia, attended a beneficiary presentation at the Ashfield Academy in support of the Boparan Charitable Trust (BCT) earlier this month (May).

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.

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.

Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»

The church building still remains, but is now owned and operated by the Carlton Academy PTA from Nottingham and is now used as an outdoor education facility for their pupils and those from other schools in the Redhill Academy Trust

Joined at the event by Dr. Sandra Hassink, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and by Jessica Donze Black, head of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vilsack movingly described how, as the son of a drug - and alcohol - addicted adoptive mother, he was shamed for being overweight which in turn impacted his performance in school.

Section 24A — a new section that requires Academy Trusts to teach in accordance with the scientific consensus.

Section 22A — a new section that requires Academy Trusts to publish information in relation to the content and approach of their curricula — also to be welcomed.

The new rules in this area state: The Academy Trust shall ensure that principles are promoted which support fundamental British values, including: respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England; respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes; support for equality of opportunity for all; support and respect for the liberties of all within the law; and respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.

The move is the culmination of a long campaign by secularists, who first succeeded in getting creationism banned from all future free schools, then future stand - alone academies and then finally all future multi-academy trusts.

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

In another case an academies trust paid out almost half a million pounds to companies owned by trustees and executives of the trust.

In return partnership with an academy or within a trust offers reciprocal benefits such as staff development, sharing of expertise and best practice and expanded learning opportunities for students.»

It also featured promises of more education reforms, with the «best headteachers» working in more than one school as trusts, academies and federations are expanded.

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

«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.