Sentences with phrase «maintained schools and academies»

She added: «The more that [local authorities] can share data, work collectively to share data, and monitor and intervene the same things as a consistent data set across maintained schools and academies, the better.»

You can read the full documents and guidance for inspections of maintained schools and academies.

Rev Leach is one of six headteachers — from both local authority maintained schools and academies — committed to the three - tier system.

The National Governance Association (NGA) is an independent charity representing and supporting governors, trustees and clerks in maintained schools and academies in England.

It also suggests changing the phrase «maintained schools and academies» to «state - funded schools» in order to simplify the language.

The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) is changing and this matters for both maintained schools and academies.

Most maintained schools and academies in chains with an annual payroll of # 3 million or more will be forced to pay up.

While maintained schools and academies each have a separate legal framework for disciplinary policy, they are both ultimately subject to general public concepts of acting lawfully, reasonably, rationally and in a procedurally fair way.

Each local authority has a schools forum — a group on which there are representatives from both maintained schools and academies in the area.

A Department for Education spokesperson said the emergency funding had been «used for its intended purpose — to help maintained schools and academies which are in urgent need of support to ensure pupils receive a good level of education.»

On 12 September 2013, Ofsted released new subsidiary guidance supporting the inspection of maintained schools and academies.

How Ofsted inspects maintained schools and academies, non-association independent schools, further education and skills provision and early years settings.

Maintained schools and academies are required to comply with the new Equality Duty.

There are currently estimated to be 721,000 tablets for use by pupils in classrooms across UK maintained schools and academies and a forecast that by the end of 2016 the number will have increased to over 946,000.

There are 1.8 million more pupils attending good or outstanding maintained schools and academies today than in August 2010.»

The Department for Education has recently revised its Governors» Handbook which now includes a new section on cultural education, emphasising the legal requirement for both maintained schools and academies to promote the cultural development of their pupils.

Finance Lease restrictions For both maintained schools and academies, the use of finance leases continues to be prohibited without the consent of the Secretary of State for Education (SSE).

The Local Government Association (LGA) says that the money should be used to maintain improvement capacity within the schools system, which will be beneficial to both council - maintained schools and academies.

High needs places for post-16 students in mainstream maintained schools and academies, including those in SEN Units, will be funded through the sixth - form grant for elements 1 and 2.

On 12 September 2013, Ofsted released new subsidiary guidance supporting the inspection of maintained schools and academies.

Not exact matches

They will be mandatory in all maintained schools, and new academies and free schools.

From the academic year 2015 to 2016, the DSG can not be used to fund places for or incur other expenditure (ie top - up funding) on 19 - to 25 - year - olds in special schools (maintained and non-maintained) and special academies.

Funded hospital education places can be found in maintained special schools (usually a particular type of special school known as a hospital school), maintained PRUs (sometimes known as medical PRUs), special and AP academies and free schools.

Post-16 places in maintained special schools, special academies and non-maintained special schools are funded at # 10,000 per place, the same as pre-16 high needs places.

High needs places, pre-16 and post-16, are funded at # 10,000 per year at maintained special schools and special academies.

In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

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.»

* Allows maintained primary and special schools to apply to become an academy in their own right for the first time.

* Requires the Secretary of State when deciding whether to enter into academy arrangements in relation to an additional (free) school, to take into account the impact of the additional school on existing maintained schools, academies and FE institutions in the area.

Lord Hill also assured peers that the academy funding agreements will require academies to comply with the school admissions code and law, as with all maintained schools, noting that «the code and related legislation outlaw additional selection and require the highest priority to be given to looked - after children.»

Parents and staff at Arturo Toscanini were livid roughly two years ago when the city proposed having a Success Academy charter school expand into the building, and Donohue maintains that closing his school is just a way to give more space in the building to Success Academy.

But only one of the schools in each place is maintained by local authorities — the remaining schools in Birmingham are academies and independent Muslim schools in Tower Hamlets, outside of local authority control.

«Unlike maintained schools, academies have substantial discretion over the ways in which governance is undertaken and some schools and multi-academy trusts have used this freedom to establish opaque and ambiguous governance structures that undermine effective internal school accountability.

The annual lobby day is hosted by the New York City Charter School Center and Northeast Charter Schools Network, two groups that maintain a decidedly less confrontational political posture than Moskowitz's Success Academy and a group that lobbies on its behalf, Families for Excellent Schools.

In the face of multimillion dollar negative ad campaigns from Success Academy Charter Schools and its CEO Eva Moskowitz, Hawkins maintains that the mayor could have pointed out that public school children - some disabled - face being displaced - but chose not to.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

This confused system is made up of state schools that continue to be maintained by Local Education Authorities (LEAs), as well as academies and free schools, which are free from LEA control.

State maintained schools included were academies, city technology colleges, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled, and foundation schools.

«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.

Specifically it should set out how it sees academies, maintained schools and local authorities working together to provide an integrated, efficient and effective school system across all parts of the country.

«Tapping into the expertise that already exists in the system, and encouraging all schools, whether academies or maintained, to work together, will allow us to spread excellence and have a real impact on children's lives.»

While the standards apply to all local authority maintained schools, academies and free schools set up before 2010 and created from June 2014, they don't apply to academies founded between 2010 and June 2014.

The aim of the funds is to drive up standards, and the programmes will take place at academies and maintained schools across the country.

Those responsible for designing, building, maintaining and funding our schools, academies, colleges and universities face huge challenges.

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.

He said: «Free schools and academies are already more accountable than maintained schools.

At route of the event is the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with your colleagues from academies, maintained schools, local authorities and education charities across the sector — something that can be done in abundance at the brand new «Central Networking Area».

NAHT believes that some local agency should have the strategic role in the planning of places, able to commission new schools and places in both the academy and maintained sectors.

Similarly, as soon as school is deemed «inadequate» and is eligible for rebrokerage, the school's information could be uploaded to the platform, which would also give maintained schools considering academy conversion the option to voluntarily upload their information.

When schools become academies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered into «academy arrangements» (pursuant to the Academies Aacademies, the legal responsibility for maintaining the school (both in physical terms and in relation to funding) passes to the academy trust with whom the Secretary of State has entered into «academy arrangements» (pursuant to the Academies AAcademies Act 2010).