«It can not be considered efficient if the Coalition Government writes off more than # 160 million of tax payers» money and yet, at the same time, persists with a policy of
creating academies and free schools that are both expensive and unwanted by the public.
Not exact matches
«The NASUWT warned that the ability of
free schools and academies to police their own admissions would
create opportunities for selection to flourish,
and it is clear from this report that this is exactly what is happening.
It comes after reports that right - wing think tank Civitas has urged the Government to
create a new body to inspect
free schools and academies.
«Look at the
free schools and academies that are bringing in diverse providers to
create more excellent
school places
and getting some of the best results at GCSE.
He
created academies, established
free schools and imposed his no excuses culture in
schools.
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.
Party members overwhelmingly passed a motion opposing plans to
create more
academies and free schools, which are
free from local authority control.
While the standards apply to all local authority maintained
schools,
academies and free schools set up before 2010
and created from June 2014, they don't apply to
academies founded between 2010
and June 2014.
The founder of Khan
Academy, a
free educational video library that features over two thousand titles
and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help
create a «flipped classroom» that allows blended learning — online lectures can happen at home
and project - based learning can happen during
school.
The reform agenda is gathering pace, with many new
academies created and free schools yet to come.
The Tories plans to
create 500 new
free schools and make 3,000 state
schools become
academies.
Treasury sources say that Wednesday's Autumn Statement will spell out how # 1bn will go towards building 100 new
free schools and academies,
creating an additional 50,000 new
school places.
The first education bill of the new Parliament promises to
create hundreds of
academies and free schools, with plans to replace the leadership of
schools that are struggling.
A new set of regulators is to be
created to keep a check on the growing number of
academies and free schools in England, sources have confirmed.
These were
created to provide a layer of monitoring for
academies and free schools, which are no longer supervised by local authorities.
The contracts state advisers will «work closely with the department's representatives in the development of successful
academies and free schools»,
and that they will support
schools, along with sponsor organisations, project management companies
and the Department for Education in the process of
creating sponsored
academies.