Sentences with phrase «as academies and free schools»

«We are also transforming the worst - performing schools with new leadership as academies and free schools.

Delegates backed calls to make teacher shortages a spending priority, rather than «diverting money to politically motivated policies» such as academies and free schools.

Teachers are calling for tackling staff shortages to be made a priority rather than «politically motivated» projects such as academies and free schools.

Labour's Stephen Twigg, pictured here speaking in the House of Commons, will call for all state schools to be given some of the same freedoms as academies and free schools

Labour will today call for all state schools to be given some of the same freedoms as academies and free schools.

As both academies and free schools have begun to play a more prominent role in the English education system, the role and responsibilities of RSCs have also increased.

His particular interest is in the establishment of new schools such as academies and free schools and part of my research is looking at Swedish free schools and Charter schools in the USA.

This confused system is made up of state schools that continue to be maintained by Local Education Authorities (LEAs), as well as academies and free schools, which are free from LEA control.

As every Academy and Free School has this requirement in its funding agreement, the implication of this interpretation is that no Academy and Free School, existing or future, can teach pseudoscience.

Not exact matches

Post-16 students in PRUs, AP academies and AP free schools are not funded in the same way as pre-16 students.

Funded hospital education places can be found in maintained special schools (usually a particular type of special school known as a hospital school), maintained PRUs (sometimes known as medical PRUs), special and AP academies and free schools.

It then adds: «The requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.»

The parties further recognise that the requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.

«The funding agreements for academies and free schools have been restructured into one document and drafted in plain English, as part of an ongoing process of simplification.»

I can assure Balls that his policies on Licence to Practise and school report cards would have made as little contribution to raising standards of teaching and learning as Gove's free schools and new academies are likely to do.

But in addition it has also introduced new clauses for Church Academies helpfully clarifying the meaning of creationism and the fact that it is a minority view within the Church of England and Catholic Church, but also stating that «the requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school.»

We already have eight regional schools commissioners, who take on key decisions regarding academies and free schools, so perhaps the number and remit will change, especially as the free schools programme will be terminated.

Just over seven in ten (71 %) of Lib Dem rebellions in the last session were on social policy (broadly defined), such as the various increases and extensions in VAT, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to legal aid and superannuation for civil servants.

And the lack of oversight created by «freedom» means that, as with academies, groups with a non-educational agenda could gain control of free schools for their own purposes.

As with the academies programme, free schools were initially meant to address issues of equity and inclusion, and create quality provision in poorer areas where it may not already exist.

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.

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«The academies and free schools programme is proving to be a modern version of The Emperor's New Clothes, as we always knew it would be.

Liberal Democrat rebels are more likely to have cast dissenting votes on social issues, such as the increase in VAT from 15 % to 17.5 %, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to superannuation for civil servants.

As part of its ongoing inquiry into academies and free schools, the Education Select Committee recently published a report that it had commissioned from Jean Scott and me on conflicts of interest in academies...

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Free schools are newly established schools set up by groups such as teachers, parents, businesses and academy chains, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum.

[81] In 2014, Gove's department acceded to the BHA's campaign by banning creationism from being taught as science in state - funded English schools, including Academies and Free Schools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evoschools, including Academies and Free Schools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evoSchools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evoschools must teach evolution.

We welcomed the inclusion of Academies and Free Schools into the draft provisions as this clarifies the current confusion around the responsibilities of Academies and Free Schools towards young people with SEND.

Weak governance was also flagged with four trusts exposed as lacking in these areas — namely Theale Green Academy Trust, Durham Free School Limited, the Business Academy Bexley, and the Bishop of Rochester Academy Trust.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipalitAs Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipalitas in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municiSchools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools is separately allocated through the municipality.

As of 31 March 2016, 66 per cent of secondary schools and 20 per cent of primary schools are already academies; 65 per cent (3,611 out of 5,449) of academies (including free schools) were in MATs, up from 53 per cent at the end of the 2013/14 academic year.

Engaging families Dawn Charlton, Strategy Manager for Publicity and Communications, at Excelsior Academy in Newcastle faces many of the same challenges as Cabot and other academies and free schools.

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In May, the paper reported (in an article given the headline «Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools») that «schools with academy graduates were less than half as likely to earn A's and almost twice as likely to earn C's or worse» as other city sSchools») that «schools with academy graduates were less than half as likely to earn A's and almost twice as likely to earn C's or worse» as other city sschools with academy graduates were less than half as likely to earn A's and almost twice as likely to earn C's or worse» as other city schoolsschools.

Just this week Prime Minister David Cameron was quoted as saying that the move would «finish the job»; with 5,200 academies currently open across all age groups (excluding around a further 400 free schools, studio schools and University Technical Colleges.

«We are already seeing the effects of this agenda with the break - up of traditional school systems such as the growth in Charter Schools in the US, the Free Schools in Sweden, Academies in the UK, more recently Partnership Schools in New Zealand, and of course the Australian Government's IPS agenda.

«Our recent analysis of the grades achieved by all schools under the more rigorous Ofsted inspection framework proved that 81 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as «good» or «outstanding», compared to 73 per cent of academies and 79 per cent of free schools.

To support the fact that councils are doing a good job at keeping standards high in schools, the report reveals that 89 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as good or outstanding, compared to 62 per cent of sponsored academies; 88.5 per cent of convertor academies; and 82 per cent of free schools.

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But as funding formulas, budget cuts, free school lunches, and now A-Level results, dominate the headlines, the day - to - day realities of managing academy finances has perhaps been forgotten in the public's minds.

Sex and relationship education is already compulsory in all maintained secondary schools and we expect academies and free schools to teach it as part of the curriculum.

As funding formulas, budget cuts, free school lunches, and now A-Level results, dominate the headlines, the day - to - day realities of managing academy finances has perhaps been forgotten in the public's minds.

The flipped classroom model — in which students watch video lessons for homework and receive more direct, individual instruction from teachers during class time — is rapidly gaining popularity in K - 12 schools, with websites such as Khan Academy offering thousands of free video lessons.

In 2012 the rules were changed to allow free schools and academies to recruit unqualified teachers, which the Government said was in order to allow them tor recruit more professionals, such as scientists, engineers, musicians and experienced teachers from overseas.

Governing bodies of maintained mainstream schools and the proprietors of mainstream academy schools (including free schools) must ensure that there is a qualified teacher designated as SENCO for the school.

Open free schools are funded in the same manner as Academy schools and are in fact legally classed as Academies.

As part of the new role, Clark will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor the performance of 800 academies and free schools in areas including Bristol, Swindon and Cornwall.

The lessons of the Trojan Horse plot were not, therefore, about the rights and wrongs of faith schools, free schools or academies, but — as Peter Clarke made clear in his report — about poor governance, inadequate Ofsted inspections, and negligence by Birmingham City Council which «failed to intervene appropriately».

But at the same time he wants to curb some rights of academies and free schools, such as hiring teachers who do not have formal teaching qualifications — a move that could hit 5,000 jobs and may be illegal under European law.