Sentences with phrase «free school applications»

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Today's «Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential» paper states that the government will «invite a new wave of mainstream free school applications in early 2018, with a particular focus on enabling more challenging areas to feel the full benefit of the programme».

But from June next year, they will approve free school applications in their area.

They have a remit of monitoring the performance of academies in their area, making recommendations on free school applications and supporting academisation.

Commenting on the announcement of 102 new free school applications approved for 2014 onwards by the Department for Education, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

It takes commitment and dedication to turn your vision into a reality but New Schools Network has helped hundreds of groups submit successful free school applications.

Analysis by the Labour party of the first ten waves of free school applications shows the proportion of approved applications from parents has declined from 35 per cent of bids in 2011 to 9 per cent last year.

«Financial scrutiny of free school applications continues to be carried out by trained DfE staff with advice from financial experts.

From next June they will make also make decisions on which free school applications are approved, where currently they only make recommendations to ministers.

McInerney v Information Commissioner and Department for Education [2015] UKUT 47 (AAC) Challenge to refusal to disclose Free School applications.

What's more, they must identify and build the sponsor capacity to support more schools to become academies, including encouraging «good» and «outstanding» schools to become academies, as well as approve new free school applications and monitoring their progress.

David Cameron has unveiled the latest wave of approved free school applications, in one of his final acts as prime minister.

As he released the data, Education Secretary Michael Gove said he wanted to be «careful» about the information published on free schools applications.

Hunt raised concerns over current arrangements for spotting underperformance and demanded a full disclosure of free school applications and financial arrangements.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is today publishing the names, locations and religious characters of all Free School applications from the «ninth wave», after the Department for Education (DfE) provided the information in response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BHA earlier this year.

However, if we take the example of free schools as an indicator, albeit an imperfect one, the government should be encouraged: at the last count, it has received 258 free school applications.

BHA Education Campaigner Jay Harman said «Faith groups make up over a fifth of all Free School applications in this group and that figure is far too high.

In response to the figures, the New Schools Network celebrated the inclusion of the new category of «social need» into the free school application criteria.

Quite rightly, the free school application process is a demanding one, even for existing «Outstanding» schools and is designed to ensure that only the best and most capable applicant groups are selected to open new schools.

Measures include a new wave of free school applications, support to expand good faith schools, and a fresh agreement with the independent schools sector to help improve outcomes for pupils of all backgrounds.

The Government is receiving record numbers of free school applications and we have record numbers of groups on the New Schools Network Development Programme.

The charity welcomes the inclusion of «social need» in the free school application process, which opens the door to schools, charities and community organisations to found schools designed to bring different communities together.

The analysis comes as New Schools Network has successfully argued for a new category of «social need» to be part of the free school application criteria.

This is the first wave of free school applications to be considered under a new streamlined «fast - track» scheme introduced last December.

Sir David also described a shift in the nature of free school applications, hinting at an increase in bids to open alternative provision (AP) free schools in wave 11, which closed last week.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has today published its Integrated Communities Strategy green paper, which sets out changes to the free schools application process and school admissions arrangements, new rules for private schools and unregistered settings, and guidance on home education.

The NSN says the data can be downloaded by proposer groups to use in their free school applications to the Department for Education.

A spokesman said: «We have achieved this while maintaining proper scrutiny of free school applications and any suggestion that the process has been weakened is false.

The Ideal person must be able to support the school in writing and assisitng the school with the free school application form.

Wave 13 of the free schools applications opened today.

They have a remit of monitoring the performance of academies in their area, making recommendations on free school applications and supporting academy conversions.

In his education practice he advises on safeguarding, admissions, exclusions, parental issues, governance, equality issues, academy conversions, free school applications and all aspects of legal compliance for schools and academies.