Sentences with phrase «half of the sponsored academies»

«What is clear is that the picture is highly variable across the country and, in the case of sponsored academies, across chains.»

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.

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

NFER reports that the distribution of schools falling below floor standards does not reveal any clear patterns that would explain why some RSCs have a higher proportion of sponsored academies than others, but it does posit that potential reason could be a lack of suitable sponsors willing to take on underperforming schools.

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».

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.

The figures for primary schools make for similar reading, with eight per cent of sponsored academies that were inadequate before converting getting another inadequate in their first Ofsted inspection.

The report said that while large trusts did tend to have a higher number of sponsored academies and so might need to «act more quickly» to remove a head, this didn't explain all the difference.

Ofsted's annual report shows more than a third of sponsored academies, both primary and secondary, are currently rated as requiring improvement, a higher proportion than local authority schools.

The limited nature of the sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».

Many of these sponsored academies were established to boost standards at under - performing schools in disadvantaged areas under Tony Blair's Labour government.

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

Not exact matches

As a sponsor or partner of NACO Academy, your organization will have the opportunity to participate in a module in a way that aligns with your business objectives.

This book contains the proceedings of a conference of the same title sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, and includes forty - two essays by a distinguished group of scholars in the sciences and humanities.

In The Heart of the Matter, a 2013 report sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a reader is confronted with language like this: «Among other benefits [studying the humanities] strengthens clarity of written and oral expression, critical and analytic reasoning, and the creativity to think outside the box.»

Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme, and is chair of governors for all three academies.

Within a year, however, he had moved to Florence, where the grand duke was a great patron of the sciences and sponsored an experimental academy.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are announce that all Viewers Choice Winners will be announced and livestreamed on February 21st, direct from California.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the 8th Annual TASTE AWARDS will take place on February 21st in Beverly Hills.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the VIEWERS CHOICE Winners for the 8th Annual TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are pleased to announce the nominees for the 9th Annual honors, and for the category, for

Doherty said executing the basketball academy wouldn't have been possible without local sponsors and support of the local community.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a lecture sponsored by the Parents» Association of Greens Farms Academy.

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

In the report I recently released, (covered by the New York Times) «And Now a Word from Our Sponsors,» I described the various ways the food industry influences the largest trade group of nutrition professionals: the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Abbott Ross, makers of Similac infant formula, were among the top three corporate sponsors of the AAP in 2002.1 Formula companies historically give money to the academy through renewable annual grants, and also contributed $ 3 million to the construction of the AAP's headquarters in Illinois.2 It is unclear to what extent this has affected the policies of the AAP, however both the use of pacifiers and the separation of mother and baby are impediments to a healthy breastfeeding relationship and increase the chance of mothers switching to formula.

Abstracts submitted by non-physicians must be sponsored (Sponsor Attestation Form) by a member * in good standing of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Atlanta North Dermatology dermatologist Dr. Jihyun «Ellen» Koo, a member of the Academy, sponsored the grant application and participated in the ceremony.

Local sponsors include Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration (HTCC) and the Tarrant County Chapter of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.

Focusing on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and sponsored by the British Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.

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

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

In 2011 it decided to sponsor a failing Church of England primary school, now called Tudor Grange Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birmingham.

However it fits in with the Church's previously announced expansion plans, with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury having declared that because of the Academies programme, «We are looking at the middle - term future, where the Church of England will be quite conceivably the largest sponsor and provider of secondary education in this country, which is a rather startling and breathtaking proposal.»

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

Health, The LGBTQ Community Center, National Association for Mental Health Harlem Chapter, Fierce, Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters School, NYC Council Member Ritchie Torres, and sponsors Essentials 608 Restaurant and Lounge, Metro Click Kiosks, and Spotco Theatrical Design and Advertisement.

Recchia had sent his regrets to the Bay Ridge Community Council, the sponsor of the Sept. 23 debate held at Holy Angels Catholic Academy, according to Alexander Conti, chairman of the council's Public Affairs Committee.

According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

According to the Bishop there are currently no fewer than 34,000 children, «all in areas of significant social deprivation,» being educated in Church of England - sponsored academies.

The agency's Healthy Relationship Training Academy sponsors workshops on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.

In England, there are several types of academies, including sponsored and converter academies and free schools.

On Local Government, the second post in our series on sponsored academies reports on the pursuit of excellence in Nottingham

«Your proposals, and the concomitant encroachment on the independent status of Academies, seriously impact upon the ability of sponsors, governors and principals to lead and manage their institutions effectively and efficiently, placing at risk the transformational change in the education system the programme was designed to facilitate.»

This decision had lasting effects on the academy, according to an academy - sponsored poster exhibit and a hefty exhibit catalog released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the «Anschluss,» the annexation of Austria to Germany in March 1938.

This article discusses the efforts of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) sponsored jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

Juday made his remarks at a workshop here sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board on climate and ecosystem changes at both poles.

The international summit on gene editing, sponsored by Britain's Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academies, has grappled with such thorny questions during three days of sometimes - heated discussion on editing the human genome that comes to a close today.

The kids had won their state science competitions, sponsored by the American Junior Academy of Sciences.

COMPETES codified many of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, including to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA - E) to sponsor «creative, out - of - the - box, transformational» energy research.

Lori started as the director of the Science Alliance, an international career - development program for graduate students and postdocs sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences.