Sentences with phrase «education authorities across»

Caabu has a long standing education program, working with schools, colleges and education authorities across the UK.

Not exact matches

MEFA (which stands for the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority) helps Massachusetts families plan and save for education expenses, but also offers student loan refinancing to borrowers across the country.

A 10 - year old girl from Greater Manchester who wanted to introduce Meat Free Monday to her school has gone one step further and encouraged her education authority to roll out MFM across the whole borough.

After getting an overwhelmingly positive response, they sent a letter to Trafford education authority, suggesting it «roll out Meat Free Mondays in schools across Trafford».

If you're looking for more strategic level input, our half - day mini-conferences / leadership seminars for up to 50 leaders and members of staff (drawn from schools and education departments across a local authority) offer a targeted, cost - effective solution.

Over the last two years, working with the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and funded by the Department for Education, we have been offering this seminar to practitioners and managers working in local authorities across England, to support the engagement of the couple / parental relationships with a more father - inclusive approach.

The database, commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills and called the Commissioners» Toolkit, is intended for use by commissioners of parenting support in local authorities and by others in similar roles across England — who will be able to use it to select and locate parenting support programmes that can be replicated for use in their area.

The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.

Education minister Liz Truss has written to local authorities across England asking them to extend school nurseries» opening hours.

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in collaboration with National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has rolled out tax educational campaigns called «Our Taxes — Our Future» across the country over the need of the citizenry to honour their tax obligations.

He said: «My concern is that the change will lead to a poorer education system operating across Kent, and more broadly England, because the value that local authorities generally provide to schools will be removed.»

At route of the event is the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with your colleagues from academies, maintained schools, local authorities and education charities across the sector — something that can be done in abundance at the brand new «Central Networking Area».

After Scottish Qualifications Authority results were released across Scotland at 09:30 yesterday, UCAS has confirmed that so far 28,700 Scottish students have had their places in higher education confirmed.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

The funding boost was announced by education secretary Kirsty Williams and will help local authority music services to purchase instruments that can be shared across Wales.

«The DfE must assert its authority in this area as part of a more proactive strategy to safeguard pupils» education and public money across the sector.

Overall, the report said that there had been real reductions in the education budget of almost 3.8 per cent since 2010 - 11 across Scotland's 32 local authorities.

Responding to Wilshaw's comments, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «In order to guarantee that any improvements are sustainable and felt across the city, local school leaders need to be able to rely on the local authority, the DfE [Department for Education] and the Regional Schools Commissioner to back them up.

As a result of the closures, Scottish Education Secretary Angela Constance has confirmed that local authorities across Scotland have been asked to carry out necessary safety checks on school buildings.

We work with health and education commissioners in local authorities, and directly with early years settings, schools, parents and children across the country.

This discussion will feature some of the leadership forces behind Detroit's «Education Achievement Authority,» who will be joined later in the session by other education leaders who have beaten the odds in school systems across theEducation Achievement Authority,» who will be joined later in the session by other education leaders who have beaten the odds in school systems across theeducation leaders who have beaten the odds in school systems across the country.

In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

On 12 April 2017, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the approval of 131 new free schools, which included the approval of plans to launch a special free school competition across 19 local authorities which would allow sponsors to apply to launch the new schools.

Schools are becoming independent entities and local authorities are rapidly being replaced by academy clusters as key players in the delivery of education across large swathes of the country.

Discovery Education has worked with schools and Local Authorities across all sizes and demographics and consistently delivers results.

NSBA with Davenport and the full leadership team will continue its efforts, working with the state school board associations, to ensure that ESSA is implemented as intended, in collaboration with local school boards and other key education stakeholders, and returning the decision - making authority to state and local communities in support of academic success for every public school student across the country.

Since the Education Act in 2011, funding for independent careers advice and guidance delivered by local authorities has been severely stripped, while Connexions services were forced to close across the country.

Since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) became law in 2015, states across the country have been using the flexibility and authority the law offers to design plans that ensure a quality education for all kids.

«As national education policy continues to devolve more powers to individual schools and academies, it is vital that the authority plays a leading role in ensuring there is a coherent and high quality educational system across the county.»

«I think if community colleges have similar authority to what local education agencies already do, then we can implement solutions in ways that will fit local needs, and provide diverse solution sets to meet the needs across our state.»

• Where the local education authority consistently fails to meet a minimum performance threshold across its schools.

A long - term solution is needed instead, and it shouldn't be a single statewide mandate applied uniformly across all 115 local education authorities.

MEDIA ADVISORY New national organization, Parents Across America, launches with inaugural education forum in NYC featuring Diane Ravitch NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2011 --- Diane Ravitch, a national authority on education policy, will be the keynote speaker at the kick - off event for Parents Across America (PAA), a new national public education advocacy organization, on Monday Feb. 7 in NYC.

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He told the BBC: «My concern is that the change will lead to a poorer education system operating across Kent, and more broadly England, because the value that local authorities generally provide to schools will be removed.»

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

«There are also serious concerns that removing local authorities from the planning of education across an area could further disadvantage children who are already vulnerable because they have special educational needs, mental health problems or are at risk of missing education,» it said.

The Flying Start programme, 28 launched across all local authorities in Wales in 2007/2008, is a Welsh Government programme that aims to improve life chances for children from birth to age 4 by providing early years care and education.

Good authorities will work together across social care, health and education to provide a holistic package of support.