Sentences with phrase «for academy chain»

Rich Davies, head of data for academy chain Ark, which sponsors the academy, said: «There was a real focus on maths and English and we have seen a massive uplift in those results.

While working on that piece I learned that non-executive director of the DfE Paul Marshall — who is also chair of trustees for academy chain Ark — had given # 15,536 to support Yeovil Liberal Democrats» 2015 election campaigns.

«The call for academy chains to face inspection is now widely supported, including by the Chief Inspector.

The DfE has been reluctant to be too prescriptive about the optimum size of a multi-academy trust, but it is likely that over time we will see MATs grow from 3, 4, 5 schools, typically, to trusts operating at least a dozen and may be upwards of 20 — 25 schools, with there still being a place for academy chains of 50 + schools.

Currently, the model funding agreement and articles of association for academy chains focus almost exclusively on governance and financial propriety, but the results of Reform's survey suggest that a chain's finances and educational performance are «intrinsically linked».

Following Prime Minister David Cameron's calls in October that «local authorities running schools were a thing of the past», the announcement is due to make it easier for academy chains to take on failing schools, including those with financial or inspection problems.

In addition to offering their SEF for free to all schools Bluewave Education is also offering a facility for academy chains, federations and Multi Academy Trusts, whereby a Common Inspection Framework can be distributed to their family of schools and the responses can be aggregated for analysis and reporting.

Sir David (pictured), who started the job at the beginning of February, was unable to answer questions about his plans to introduce a new tier system for academy chains and repeated requests from Schools Week for further information about transparency — and why it was now missing from his plans — were also refused.

«I think it's inevitable - and most people in Parliament think it's not defensible in the future to have a different system of accountability for academy chains and local authorities,» he said.

Even if academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a big expansion in academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for academy chains that are underperforming.

Not exact matches

Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Thank you for joining hundreds of other academies, including the all the main chains, in demonstrating your commitment to the health and wellbeing of your students!

Only 39 % of academies are currently in a «collaborative chain» leaving the rest as «singletons», a drift which Twigg blamed Gove for.

But many would say the mayor made his own distaste for charters perfectly clear during the campaign, when he remarked about the head of the Success Academy chain: «There's no way in hell Eva Moskowitz should get free rent, OK?»

«If the Conservatives are genuinely committed to not for profit education then they should, now, prior to the General Election, open up the books of the multi academy chains to public scrutiny, a facility so far denied to Ofsted and the Public Accounts Committee.»

Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.

To celebrate the Oscar season, Canada's Cineplex movie theater chain put together this excellent supercut video featuring footage from all of the different movies nominated for Academy Awards this year.

If the sequel were a direct follow - up to the first game with real time passage, Jimmy would be far too old for the iconic school environment to persist, which is why it would likely concern a new character tackling the social food - chain of a modern day Bullworth Academy.

One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.

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The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).

The salary for Sir Daniel Moynihan, the Harris Academy chain's chief executive, has reached # 395,000 - # 400,000 after a recent salary rise, according to reports from the Guardian.

It believes putting the power «firmly in the chain's hands» is the route to ensuring the academy programme improves education for all.

The researchers found that, on average, academy chains do better for their disadvantaged pupils with low prior attainment.

However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, the report is urging the government, and the national and regional schools commissioners, to do more to create mechanisms that spread good practice from the best academy chains to the rest.

The Sutton Trust report - Chain Effects 2017 - written by Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis, which is now in its fourth year, looks at the results of disadvantaged pupils in academy chains with at least two sponsored academies for at least three years.

«The cost of failure where an academy chain runs several schools is hugely damaging for pupils and government needs a better grip of when chains are at risk of failure.

Influential committee tells Department for Education it needs a «better grip» over when academy chains are at risk of failure

And for some, School Direct is just the start of the journey, with a number of schools and academy chains choosing to take the next step and applying to become accredited school - led and school - centred ITT providers themselves (known as SCITTs).

The education secretary Nicky Morgan said: «From helping to set up one of the country's top academy chains, to acting as a council member for the Institute of Education, to overseeing our ambitious qualification reform programme, Amanda has extensive experience at the frontline of the education system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this important role.

Apr - 13 TKAT Bridgemary School Ofsted «inadequate» Jul - 13 TKAT Collapse of Swedish «free» school chain Jul - 13 TKAT Havant Academy Ofsted «inadequate» Oct - 13 TKAT Bridgemary School Warning notice issued re Bridgemary School Jan - 14 TKAT The Kemnal Academy Trust Overall 2013 GCSE results below floor target Jan - 14 TKAT TKAT 26 out of 40 heads replaced Jan - 14 TKAT Weyfield Primary Academy Head disappears over holidays, Weyfield Primary Feb - 14 TKAT Dame Janet Primary Requires improvement Mar - 14 TKAT King Harold B & E Academy Requires improvement Jun - 14 TKAT Heybridge Primary Requires improvement Jun - 14 TKAT Portfield Primary School Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Salmestone Primary Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Seymour Primary Requires improvement Jul - 14 TKAT Criticised by Ofsted: Overwhelming proportion of pupils not getting reasonable education Oct - 14 TKAT Thomas Bennett Community Requires improvement Nov - 14 TKAT Weyfield Primary Academy Inadequate (see previous entry) Jan - 15 TKAT Newlands Primary Requires improvement Jul - 15 TKAT Chichester High School for Boys Requires improvement

Several large academy chains were approached for comment but did not respond, with the exception of Ark, which did not want to comment before more details are released.

Before taking the role, Sir David was a positive advocate for openness, claiming during a presentation at the Independent Academies Association conference in October 2014 that the individual votes of headteacher board members — who advise regional schools commissioners (RSCs) on academy chain takeovers — would be made public.

Academy chain chief executive Alan Yellup (pictured above), who is also on the headteacher board for West Yorkshire and Lancashire, revealed his region's target at the Westminster Education Forum last week.

The Department for Education had accepted the academy chain's announcement saying: «We trust them to decide on the most appropriate arrangements for their trust.»

-- Threshold for conversion — a guarantee that only academy chains with a proven track record should be eligible to sponsor new academies

Even before this proposed legislation has been debated in Parliament, an academy chain has already scrapped governing bodies for its academies.

But one academy chain source says the Department for Education has been clear that trusts must become sustainable and not rely on their sponsor's cash.

An academy chain established by the schools minister has been forced to drop controversial plans to extend the day for children as young as five after protests from parents and teachers.

Malcolm Trobe, the interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said salary levels were set by factors including the value - for - money the chief executives provided, and could be offset by the saving an academy chain could bring, such as group discounts for contracts.

An analysis of academy accounts by Schools Week found the deficit for the LGPS, a defined contribution benefit scheme for non-teaching staff including school business leaders and teaching assistants, is growing every year as chains expand and returns on investment fail to improve.

The regional schools commissioner for the south west of England Rebecca Clark is to leave her role at the Department for Education to take a new job with the academy chain Ark..

The state system was very clearly built broken... and now it is being totally dismantled for the benefit of business mates who run academy chains alongside the training.

At present, academy chains can already remove governing bodies from their individual schools - and a single board of trustees can act as a governing body for the entire chain.

The NUT conference heard calls for industrial action in opposition to the changes, which union leaders say could threaten teachers» pay and job security, as such decisions about pay and conditions would be decided by academy chains.

It is also seen as one of the most successful; all of its academies that have been inspected since takeover have been rated «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted, and the chain is regularly singled out for praise by ministers.

The Future Leaders trust launched its executive educators» programme for current and would - be academy chain chief executives last year.

The free schools programme, established by Michael Gove in 2010 as a way for members of the public and teachers to set up their own schools, is increasingly used by large, established academy chains to start their own schools.

It cost taxpayers» money for them to become academies and it will cost the taxpayer more money for the academies to be handed to another chain.