A court case in 2016 involving Zenna Atkins, former Ofsted chair, revealed
how academy trusts could circumvent rules to make a profit.
Budget monitoring Other entries in the 2015 edition include
how academy trusts must not have de facto trustees or shadow directors, and how Academy Principals (Accounting Officers) must adhere to the «seven principles of public life» — first set out by Lord Nolan and included in the Ministerial code.
Not exact matches
Joined at the event by Dr. Sandra Hassink, president of the American
Academy of Pediatrics, and by Jessica Donze Black, head of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable
Trusts, Vilsack movingly described
how, as the son of a drug - and alcohol - addicted adoptive mother, he was shamed for being overweight which in turn impacted his performance in school.
But more important is the question of
trust and
how that is compromised by the
academy's acceptance of funding from the dairy industry.
The ICGC Prostate Cancer UK group — funded by Cancer Research UK, the Dallaglio Foundation, the Wellcome
Trust, the
Academy of Finland and others — is examining
how the disease evolves in patients to help develop approaches for personalised medicine, tailored to the genetic makeup of each person's cancer.
Episodes include on Part 1 are «
How to Start a Dragon
Academy», «Viking For Hire», «Animal House», «The Terrible Twos», «In Dragons We
Trust», «Alvin and the Outcasts», «
How to Pick Your Dragon», «Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Young Man», «Dragon Flower», «Heather Report Part I», and «Heather Report Part II».
Honor Wilson Fletcher of the Aldridge Foundation says:» The National Literacy
Trust is being really smart; understand
how academies work as a whole and you have the chance to embed lasting, effective strategies for literacy in their DNA.
With informed and practical advice on
how to work within an
academy to achieve a world - class level of education, this is a must - attend session for all
academy and multi
academy trust (MAT) leaders and teachers.
Recommended workshops on Wednesday 18th include: «
How to make cost savings and make your budget go further» by the TES Foundation; «Exploiting the opportunity for change within the Finance Function, when creating or growing a Multi
Academy Trust» by Will Jordan of PD Financials; and» Simplifying procurement - a master class in procuring and practical everyday top tips» by ESPO.
Focus Education, which is set to host a series of «Becoming an
Academy» events this summer providing insight and guidance on
how to approach the transition, is the sponsor of the charitable multi-
academy trust, Focus Trust, which was established in
trust, Focus
Trust, which was established in
Trust, which was established in 2013.
Just over 300 multi-
academy trusts (MATS) and 543 single -
academy trusts (SATs) responded to the survey which looked at reasons for conversion, financial regulation and
how much
trusts charge
academies.
«We work with a number of excellent
Trusts, who are focused on providing a level headed approach to the
academies which they support, so we have seen first - hand
how this process can and does have a positive impact.»
These documents are its constitution and set out the number of rules regarding what the
Academy Trust can and can not do and
how it must operate.
Once this document has been agreed your solicitors, the DfE and your Local Authority will then need to agree the appropriate documentation for
how your chosen
Academy Trust will hold the land.
«I am confident too that in their dealings with parents, schools,
academy trusts, religious bodies, local authorities and others, adjudicators and OSA staff appreciate
how important the matters raised are to those concerned and that they deal sensitively and fairly with all.»
Organisations such as Multi ‑
Academy Trusts to specialist charitable organisations are being called to apply to one of the 19 local authorities, setting out
how they will be able to meet the specification for the project.
Just this week, Schools Week reported
how Harlow - based Sir Charles Kao UTC has changed its name to the BMAT STEM
Academy and joined the Burnt Mill
Academy Trust.
Schools Week reported last week
how the
Academy Transformation
Trust (ATT) is undergoing a major restructure across its 21 schools in the Midlands and east of England.
As is the case for many
Trusts, a core area of focus for NET
Academies has been
how to accurately and consistently measure pupil progress across our schools.
This summer, Forum Education consulted
academy trust CEOs and trustees from across our regional leaders» networks to ask
how the challenges associated with MAT governance could be improved through better trustee recruitment and training.
The Department for Education currently «grade»
academy sponsors but have refused to release information about the grade levels, or
how they are decided, even to leaders of
academy trusts.
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) highlighted
how 102
academy trusts paid some senior staff over # 150,000 a year.
Schools do indeed change Ofsted categories and it might be as a result of factors completely outside the control of the operator, be it LA or
academy trust — however you only have to look at the trove of SchoolsWeek stories about
how an
academy has dropped a grade or two to see all the comments about
how this shows the
academy programme is to blame.
The government stopped judging regional commissioners on
how many schools in their regions were in need of an
academy trust after figures revealed far more sponsors were needed...
How good is a specific
academy trust?
Schools Week previously revealed
how the city's schools were caught by high repayments for buildings procured over a decade ago, making them unattractive to
academy trusts.
There is absolutely no uniformity in
how Multi
Academy Trusts are managing their asbestos, and no standardised procedures followed when schools transfer to academy
Academy Trusts are managing their asbestos, and no standardised procedures followed when schools transfer to academy t
Trusts are managing their asbestos, and no standardised procedures followed when schools transfer to
academy academy truststrusts.
The case of John Madejski shows
how difficult it is to find
academy trusts willing to take over struggling schools or
academies.
Accountability: If all schools were put into
academy trusts, operating across many different parts of the country,
how will individual schools remain accountable to parents and their local community?
But Labour's Ian Mearns questioned
how she could run a school system which could have 10,000 separate
academy trusts.
The Livingstone
Academies demonstrate
how free school policies and multi-academy
trust proposals are now making entrepreneurial influence more possible in English schools.
Another goal of the
academy is to help prospective superintendents learn
how to gain the
trust of local communities as well as communicate effectively with local boards.
Private Eye (2 Sept 2016) revealed
how the two founders of North West
Academies Trust (NWAT), the only two board members, had paid # 100k of schools funds to their own companies before their first free school even opened.
Malcolm Reeve, the executive director of SEND and inclusion at the
Academies Enterprise
Trust, said that pupils with EHCPs have the «protection» of a plan or statement, but those in the other category are forced to rely on
how their schools interpret the SEND code of practice.
Funny
how taxpayers» money seems to find its way to companies and / or relatives connected to
academy trusts.
Or
how about # 40m to Heron Hall free school, a secondary school part of the Cuckoo Hall
Academies Trust which is under a Financial Notice to Improve?
Read Andy Hargreaves and Alan Boyle's description («Uplifting Leadership,») of
how the Learning
Trust, a group charged with turning around a poor - performing school district in the U.K., insisted on a sense of all - for - one among all schools in the district, including the newly formed «
academies» (comparable to U.S. charter schools):
The Department for Education did not say whether they approved or disapproved, saying it was up to
academy chains to decide
how to administer their schools and «we
trust them to decide on the most appropriate arrangements for their
trust».
The 10 areas will also have access to a wider # 75 million «Excellence in Leadership and Teaching Fund», which appears to be the expansion of another proposal from the white paper — the Excellence in Leadership Fund — which was aimed at encouraging
academy trusts and other providers to «innovate» in
how they boost leadership.
Parents could spark a change of
academy trust under proposals in the white paper that give them the right to petition regional schools commissioners if they are not satisfied with
how their school is run.
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.
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With the aim of recalibrating
how we think about art and architecture, it featured interdisciplinary workshops with participants such as Raqs Media Collective, Superflex, Dayanita Singh, among others, and institutional collaborations with leading forces in arts education including Städelschule, Open School East, TBA21 -
Academy, Merce Cunningham
Trust, FHNW
Academy of Art and Design and Harvard, amongst others.
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