Sentences with phrase «good academy sponsors»

Heath Monk, executive director of the King Edward VI Foundation, which runs five grammar schools and one «good» non-selective academy in Birmingham, also cautioned against an expectation that all grammar schools would make good academy sponsors.

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According to Ofsted, in December 2013 56 % of sponsor - led academies were good or outstanding.

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«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

Between 2010/11 and 2016/17, 4,674 schools, mainly those that Ofsted had rated as good or outstanding, became academies without a sponsor.

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 remaining 2,006 converter academies do not have sponsors and are schools previously assessed as «performing well» that have chosen to make the transition to academy status.

The academy conversion model (initially common in schools in special measures, known as «sponsor» academies) is now chosen by many good / outstanding schools (known as «convertor» academies) as it turns a school into an independent business (not for profit) that receives funding directly from central government instead of a local authority.

Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»

To support the fact that councils are doing a good job at keeping standards high in schools, the report reveals that 89 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as good or outstanding, compared to 62 per cent of sponsored academies; 88.5 per cent of convertor academies; and 82 per cent of free schools.

A DfE spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

It is difficult to provide a comprehensive assessment owing to differences between the funding and purpose of early academies (2002 ‑ 2009) and later academies established from 2010 onwards, as well as the pupil intakes and profile of converter and sponsored academies.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Due to the turbocharged sponsored academy programme hundreds of thousands of children are now getting a better education - a key driver in our mission to spread educational excellence everywhere.

It is difficult to provide a comprehensive assessment owing to differences between the funding and purpose of early academies (2002 - 2009) and later academies established from 2010 onwards, as well as the pupil intakes and profile of converter and sponsored academies.

In her time there she has been instrumental in the school progressing from special measures to good and the successful conversion to a sponsored academy as part of a multi-academy trust.

The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then CEO of the multi academy trust created.

Consider the Columbus Collegiate Academy, a «no excuses» school we sponsor, and by most measures one of the best high - poverty schools in the state.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

A DfE spokesperson said: «Academy sponsors are key to making sure every child has a chance to go to a good or outstanding local school.

Academy conversion, particularly with a sponsor, was supposed to be the best route for improvement.

«That is why we are replacing failing schools with sponsored academies, which are proven to raise standards, opening new free schools where parents want them and introducing a more rigorous curriculum, with qualifications that match the world's best.»

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

Three of the four schools run by Midland Academies Trust, which is sponsored by North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, are rated «requires improvement»; two have fallen from «good» since the trust took over and another only recently rose from «inadequate».

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.

Complications may arise for academy trusts that are sponsored, as they may have a corporate member as well as individual member.

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

«With a shortage of academy sponsors and struggling schools currently in the dark about their future the simplest remedy is to give councils the power to turn these schools around where this is the best option locally.»

Inspection ratings for 4,103 converter academies showed 89 % rated good or outstanding but among the 955 sponsored academies inspected the figure was only 65 %, according to the analysis.

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

The number of sponsored academies currently rated as good or outstanding is actually 58 per cent, as previously explained by Schools Week.

There are wide variations within the academy category, with sponsored academies, which are forced into academy status after poor Ofsted ratings, predictably faring worse than converter academies, which must be rated good or outstanding before being allowed to convert.

Those that can improve will be supported to do so by our team of expert heads, and those that can not will be turned into academies under the leadership of our expert school sponsors - one of the best ways of improving underperforming schools.

The ability of RSCs to tackle underperformance is dependent on academy sponsors but the report notes that regions with the greatest need for good sponsors tend to be those with the smallest pool of existing «high potential» sponsors.

«I've always been passionate about the academies movement, passionate about high quality education, and had been involved in sponsoring other schools and seeing that transformation from special measures to becoming a good school.

The Academy of Best Practices is sponsored by CPM Educational Program.

Maintained schools that convert to become sponsor - led academies, whose predecessor schools were most recently judged good or outstanding, are treated as new schools for inspection purposes and are subject to a section 5 inspection as their first inspection; this will normally take place within three years of the school becoming a sponsor - led academy.

As well as financial support, in the form of a # 2million Endowment Trust, the sponsor has also donated its time, expertise and services to help the Academy transform local education opportunities for all.

Of the types of academy, sponsored academies performed the worst across all areas, while free schools were the best - performing.

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.

Due to the turbocharged sponsored academy programme hundreds of thousands of children are now getting a better education - a key driver in our mission to spread educational excellence everywhere.

Fears about the availability of good sponsors for increasing numbers of academies has led to speculation that the government may look to the 16 to 19 institutions — 90 per cent of which are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — to lead multi-academy trusts.

But said: «The Trustees are working closely with the DfE and regional schools commissioner to see if the needs of our students and staff can be best served through rebuilding the capacity at Perry Beeches The Academy trust, or through transferring some or all of the schools to another sponsor or sponsors.

They also said funding is able to support sponsors, and good academy trusts are being encouraged to grow so «every child has the world - class education they deserve».