Sentences with phrase «more academy sponsors»
So we will make it a priority to recruit more academy sponsors and support more great headteachers in coming together in academy chains.
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Beginning in 2001, the Academy listed 10 food industry sponsors; the 2011 annual report lists 38, a more than three-fold increase;
«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.
The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.
Reform recommends a more holistic approach to commissioning, where funding agreements for academy sponsors include a section on pupil outcomes in addition to assurances on financial propriety.
In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.
Tom Atwood, chairman of the schools sponsor Atwood Academies, said: «The people of Bexhill and more particularly the children of Bexhill have in recent years been let down badly by an ill thought out building design and worse a dreadful implementation of the new build.
Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.
However, the research did outline that the smaller number of «sponsored» academies which were previously under - achieving, made more progress when they became academies.
However, in the studies we looked at, a majority of converter and sponsored academies report that they give support to other schools, and secondary academies, larger academies and converter academies are more likely to do this.
Furthermore, Ofsted inspection ratings were more likely to increase in schools that became sponsored academies 2002 - 2009 which corroborated Key Stage 4 performance gains.
Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.
Converter academies are less prevalent in this group, with more sponsored academies, foundation schools and community schools.
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.
«Sponsoring an academy helps UCL to understand more about secondary education and ensures we continue to adapt and develop our approaches to teaching and learning to meet the needs of all of our students,» said a UCL spokesperson.
KPI 7: The percentage of approved sponsors that are active (i.e. that are sponsoring one or more academies).
However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.
The DfE said, «sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.»
«Yet Nicky Morgan is persisting with driving through Parliament a Bill that will force more and more schools to become sponsored academies whilst depriving parents and governors of any say in the matter.
More than 30 teaching posts are reportedly under threat across schools sponsored by the University of Chester Academy Trust (UCAT).
The figures therefore indicate that 49,000 more children would remain in schools designated «inadequate» for longer if all such schools become sponsored academies.
Internal government figures, released after a freedom of information request, show more than one in four inadequate secondary schools that became sponsored academies were rated inadequate again.
«I wanted to help make a more direct contribution to raising standards, and that is something that this role allows me to do because I'm in and out of schools, meeting sponsors and talking to academies constantly,» he said.
Rather than look at these two types of academy together, this analysis treats the sponsored academies separately, and this finds a more positive impact.
Test results in sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.
«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.
Schools complained about limited communication from the RSCs, and are often told they will transfer to new academy sponsors but then hear nothing more.
More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.
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.
Even after accounting for sponsored academies, more heads left MATs with between six and 30 schools than in single academy trusts.
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.
«Secondary sponsored academies that have been open for three or more years have results that are above those of their predecessor schools, even against these new, tougher, standards.»
More than a quarter of all applications to become academy sponsors were either deferred or rejected over the same period.
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...
The difference for sponsored academies was slightly more nuanced in 2014, when the findings were also affected by changes to the way GCSE performance is measured.
Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the study revealed that the push for more free schools was not really «parent - led» but was now «dominated» by academy sponsors.
Nearly # 13 million in pledged capital funding is still owed to the government by eight academy sponsors, with two trusts owing more than # 10 million between them.
«We are already working with many excellent academy sponsors and are recruiting more to pair with struggling schools so every child has access to the excellent education they deserve.»
He added: «We know that for some academies there is more to do - which is hardly surprising when many of these are most likely to include sponsored academies which have a history of low performance in their former schools.»
The Local Schools Network says that pupils» results improved by 6.4 % more in non-academy primary schools than in similar sponsored academies between 2014 and 2015.
RSCs should continue to sharpen and make more transparent sponsor accountability processes, acting to remove academies from failing chains and closing those chains with poor records
Ms Renou said that she would be looking for more academies, and more businesses and charities with educational experience, to consider becoming sponsors.
As sponsor of the Academy, New Charter Housing Trust Group has done much more than lend the Academy its name.
It is therefore of concern that the NAO report highlighted that the DfE «does not yet know why some academy sponsors are more successful than others».
The government's reforms will offer new and existing grammar schools the choice between admitting more pupils from a deprived background, setting up free schools or sponsoring underperforming academies.
2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years
Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.
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