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65 per cent of academy school leaders told us they are concerned about the impact of cuts to ESG.

29 per cent of academy schools and 32 per cent of non-academies purchase in a chain or cluster.

Not exact matches

In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

«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.

For example, 61 per cent of secondary schools and 15 per cent of primary schools are now academies or free schools and so do not have to teach the national curriculum.

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.

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

As of the start of February, 65 per cent of secondary and 18 per cent of primary schools were academies.

Some 95 per cent of delegates passed a motion that «no schools should be forced to become an academy» at the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) conference in Birmingham.

The AET is proposing to cut the number of buildings and estates staff in schools by over 25 per cent, resulting in at least 34 redundancies across its 66 primary, special and secondary academies.

A survey commissioned by academy trust Bohunt Education Trust (BET) has found that only 10 per cent of people believe that children today have more outdoor education opportunities than they had in their school years, with nearly three ‑ quarters of people (71 per cent) blaming cost as the biggest factor stopping children experiencing outdoor education.

A staggering 33 per cent of those surveyed said that they have received no training about Progress or Attainment 8, and 25 per cent said that their school or academy was «not», «very slightly», or «slightly» prepared for the introduction of new measures.

Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath capped a remarkable year with 84 per cent of the A level cohort achieving three or more passes at grades A * - E. Just 18 months after the Academy was judged as Good by Ofsted and in the same year it was designated as a National Support School, every indicator at Key Stage 5 has improved yet again.

SRE is compulsory in council - maintained secondary schools, but not in academies or free schools, which make up 65 per cent of all secondary schools.

It also states that in September 2016, 67 per cent of secondary schools were academies in comparison to 21 per cent of primary schools.

He continued: «At a time when classroom teachers across the country have been denied even a one per cent pay uplift and parents are increasingly being asked by schools to make financial contributions for basic services, the excessive salaries of some academy chiefs can not be justified.

Over 60 per cent of secondary schools have converted to academies and most of them are part of Multi Academy Trusts (MATs).

«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.

Less than seven percent said that they supported the goal of every school becoming an academy, while 85.6 per cent opposed the idea.

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.

Over 75 per cent of respondents said their workload had increased since their school converted to academy status.

It outlined that 98 per cent of councils schools improved after just one «inadequate» Ofsted inspection, compared with 88 per cent of academies.

This data found 81 per cent of council - maintained schools were rated good or outstanding, with 73 per cent of academies and 79 per cent of free schools.

Academies account for 60 per cent of secondary schools and 13 per cent of primaries.

The gulf in advice saw 45 per cent of independent school students receive regular careers guidance compared to 13 per cent of students in state schools, and 14 per cent in academies.

67 per cent of secondary schools are currently academies, compared to 21 per cent of primary schools, so growth in the primary phase would likely have to remain above that of the secondary phase for quite some time if this gap is to close.

South West England continues to be the most academised region, where 38 per cent of schools are not academies, compared to just 18 per cent in the North of England and Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

Teachers have particularly seized the opportunity to set up a new school; 67 per cent of free schools have been started by groups led by teachers, existing successful schools, academy chains or existing providers.

In his session, «Managing mental health — a resilience toolkit», Robert Whitelock of Garforth Academy revealed the shocking figure that 25 per cent of school staff are susceptible to mental health problems.

South - East and South London have the greatest difference, with just six per cent of schools in Lewisham being academies, compared to 87 per cent in Bromley.

Alternatively the West Midlands was found to have the least variation between local authorities, but still has some striking differences, with 13 per cent of schools being academies in Cheshire West and Chester compared to 48 per cent in Stoke on Trent.

A further 10 per cent said they didn't know what effect the autonomy of academy schools had in the classroom, according to a poll of 143 academy leaders carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.

An analysis by Schools Week found that of the 87 schools across the country that lost 5 per cent or more pupils during year 11, 32 per cent were local authority - run, and 55 per cent were acaSchools Week found that of the 87 schools across the country that lost 5 per cent or more pupils during year 11, 32 per cent were local authority - run, and 55 per cent were acaschools across the country that lost 5 per cent or more pupils during year 11, 32 per cent were local authority - run, and 55 per cent were academies.

The figures for primary schools make for similar reading, with eight per cent of sponsored academies that were inadequate before converting getting another inadequate in their first Ofsted inspection.

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.

The latest figures show that around 61 per cent of the 3,381 state secondary schools in England are already academies, compared to just 14.5 per cent of its 16,766 primaries.

The minor tweaks that occur at national level — setting the «C grade» boundary at one point higher to reduce a pass rate by 0.3 per cent rather than to see it rise by 2.5 per cent, for example — may be a minor tweak nationally, but in some of our academies and schools this causes a tsunami effect.

At the end of 2015, one - quarter of state funded schools in England were academies, and of those, 59 per cent were in MATs.

A further 11 per cent of academies are in middle - sized MATs of 10 - 29 schools, leaving 39 per cent in small MATs of fewer than 10 schools, a number that is likely to rise, especially once the government's white paper is published.

Just 16 per cent of schools under her remit are academies compared with 13 per cent over two years ago.

Eighty - two per cent of the city's schools are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, only three of which are academies.

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When Janet Renou gave her first interview to Schools Week in 2014, just 13 per cent of schools in her region were academies, well below the national fiSchools Week in 2014, just 13 per cent of schools in her region were academies, well below the national fischools in her region were academies, well below the national figure...

Of the MATs surveyed, 82 per cent reported that the creation of new opportunities to collaborate contributed to the decision of their schools to become academies and 40 per cent believed this was the main reason for their schools convertinOf the MATs surveyed, 82 per cent reported that the creation of new opportunities to collaborate contributed to the decision of their schools to become academies and 40 per cent believed this was the main reason for their schools convertinof new opportunities to collaborate contributed to the decision of their schools to become academies and 40 per cent believed this was the main reason for their schools convertinof their schools to become academies and 40 per cent believed this was the main reason for their schools converting.

It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.

«However, there could also be competing explanations: the amount of [DfE] funding available to sponsors when a school became a sponsored academy reduced by 83 per cent between 2010 and 2014.»

The five A * - C benchmark for Chinese pupils at local authority maintained (LA) schools fell 7.9 per cent, while the similar scores of Chinese pupils in sponsored academies dipped just 0.1 per cent.

The idea that our network of more than 23,000 schools, operating in hugely different contexts, could be overseen from the DfE's central London headquarters was always a nonsense, so I expected a significant increase in RSC activity as the percentage of schools that are academies neared 50 per cent.

By January 2018, the proportion of schools that were academies had reached 93 per cent in the London Borough of Bromley, whereas only six per cent of schools in Lancashire, Lewisham and North Tyneside were academies.