Sentences with phrase «find academy sponsors»

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A majority of registered dietitians surveyed found three current Academy sponsors «unacceptable» (Coca - Cola, Mars, and PepsiCo);

In April 2006 Des Smith, a head teacher who helped find sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme, was arrested and questioned.

Ofsted has a role in advising the EFA and SCG on the decommissioning of academies (through batched inspections), but is not formally involved in finding new sponsors or establishing new contracts.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

The research found that converting schools into sponsored academies may rise standards in the year after they are converted, but this improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy.

Another source found that a third of respondents reported an increased demand for school places since becoming sponsored or converter academies.

NFER also found wide variation in the proportion of sponsored academies across regions.

The research also found that while there had been a steady increase in the number of sponsored academies, i.e. struggling schools forced to convert, between 2006 and 2012, there has more recently been a dramatic decline.

It said some councils struggled to find sponsors for new schools, while academies, independent of council control, could be reluctant to expand to meet demand for school places.

Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.

Rather than look at these two types of academy together, this analysis treats the sponsored academies separately, and this finds a more positive impact.

The council said in a letter that a new sponsor must be found for the academy and has stepped in to support the Education Central Multi-Academy Trust (ECMAT), the school's current sponsors.

The report found that differences between sponsored academies open for between two and four years and maintained schools with similar intakes were «generally small and mostly not statistically significant».

The difference for sponsored academies was slightly more nuanced in 2014, when the findings were also affected by changes to the way GCSE performance is measured.

Woodford Primary School in Plymouth waited almost a year before a sponsor could be found that was «acceptable» to the government, while Gloucestershire council said it had been working hard with its RSC, but that it lacked suitable academy sponsors in the area.

Where we have concerns about an academy trust's ability to improve performance, we will intervene to find a strong sponsor for the school.

If inadequate schools have long been eligible for conversion, and the DfE hasn't explicitly committed to turning all of them into academies, perhaps because it can not find enough good sponsors for them all.

Universities charging maximum tuition fees will have to sponsor academies or help found free schools

(The first, Fountain Square Academy, found a new sponsor in Ball State University.)

It's better for all concerned if a new sponsor were found for Durand Academy and its boarding school.

On the whole, regional commissioners, who are charged with overseeing standards in the academy system, tried to get involved with struggling academies before they got so bad that there was no other option but to find another sponsor and new management, Sir David said.

When a school is deemed «failing», either in or outside a chain, commissioners currently go to their list of approved academy sponsors to find a chain to take it over.

Pimlico Primary is sponsored by Future Academies, a charity founded by Lord Nash and his wife Caroline.

«Over the last five years the government found it difficult to secure enough quality sponsors to take on just 5,000 academies.

A cash - strapped school has been ditched by the new academy trust founded by its sponsor, leaving the government to search for a trust with better local resources.

These findings raise questions about the strategy of turning coasting schools into academies under the leadership of school sponsors.

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

Schools Week reported last month how a cash - strapped academy on the Isle of Portland, off the coast of Dorset, was ditched by the new academy trust founded by its sponsor.

In addition to its role as a fine art school, and in keeping with its founding principle to «mount an annual exhibition open to all artists of distinguished merit», the RA also offered talented artists the opportunity to draw attention to themselves at an annual Summer Exhibition sponsored by the Academy.

For example, at every PCMH meeting I have attended — including the annual Conference on Practice Improvement sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians — I was pleasantly surprised to find that everyone knew about the medical assisting profession, and many knew about CMAs (AAMA).