The key for schools joining
existing academy trusts will be to assist with the due diligence exercise prior to conversion.
Not exact matches
The School Food
Trust wrote to more than 1,500
existing academies in January 2012, asking them to indicate whether or not they were committed to following the national school food standards.
Furthermore, the report says that
existing independent
academies are being increasingly forced into «arranged - marriages» with larger Multi-Academy
Trusts (MATs) as an act of preservation and to generate economies of scale.
They might even partner with an
existing non-selective school within a multi-
academy trust or sponsor a currently underperforming non-selective
academy.»
Our white paper, Resourcing the Performance Agenda in Schools and Multi-Academy
Trusts, offers recommendations and practical guidance for schools,
academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain
existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teachers.
In response to a query from me on behalf of NCOGS he said:»... we want to ensure that the schools system continues to benefit from the expertise of the best people in local authority teams and it recognises that there is some very effective practice within local authority school improvement teams and we expect that the strongest people in them may establish new
academy trusts or take up positions within
existing ones.
This suggested that new grammar schools could open from 2020 - but in the meantime there would be # 150m funding to expand
existing grammars or to introduce grammar streams through
academy trusts.
This will enable us to continue to grow teaching school alliances, continue to grow national leaders of education and continue to support and develop
existing and new high quality multi
academy trusts.
«I think that as we look at each of those schools in the particular markets and catchment areas in which they
exist, there might be arguments for selection in certain places,» Julian Drinkall, chief executive of the
Academies Enterprise
Trust, told the TES.
Free schools can be set up by parents, teachers, charities, businesses, cultural and sporting bodies, community groups,
academy trusts and sponsors, and
existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.
You may be in an area with few
existing academies or multi-academy
trusts, in which case you may judge this to be an opportunity to create and lead a new multi-academy
trust.
In both circumstances we recommend a mapping exercise, picking out out the
existing provision for maintained schools, single
academy trusts and multi-
academy trusts operating locally.