He was responding to a question about whether the independent sector could learn about efficiency savings from MATs, and noted that
the new academies minister, Lord Agnew, wants them to have between 10 and 20 schools.
In a letter to education professionals, seen by Schools Week,
the new academies minister Lord Agnew has set out plans to develop new «resources and guidance» for teachers.
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, the largest education union in the UK, comments on the appointment of Sir Theodore Agnew as
the new academies minister...
Not exact matches
Gottfried and Perkins were joined at the Albany press conference today by Laurie Wen, Executive Director, Physicians for a National Health Program — NY Metro; Dr. Paul Sorum, former Chair of the Capital District chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program; Vito Grasso, Executive Vice President of the
New York State
Academy of Family Physicians; Lisa Blodgett,
New York State Nurses Association; Doug Bullock, First Vice President of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor; Rev. Frances Rosenau, Associate
Minister at the Westminster Presbyterian Church; and Mark Dunlea, co-founder of Single Payer
New York and Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network of
New York State.
And in the Commons, Schools
Minister Nick Gibb confirmed that amendments to the bill had given children with special educational needs greater rights to admission to
academies than existed in previous
academies legislation, and that
new requirements for funding for low - incidence special needs had been added.
The Prime
Minister's visit to Archer
Academy, a
new free school in East Finchley, was being seen as a sign of Tory nerves.
As a former Education
Minister who helped the drive for
academy schools in the
New Labour years, it was hoped his appointment might signal Ed Miliband's support for the Coalition's Free Schools programme.
The
new government bills were rejected by the Croatian
Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), which concluded that the proposed changes were «not acceptable» in a 10 November letter to Croatia's science
minister, Radovan Fuchs.
The president of the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Stefan Vodenicharov, has been nominated as the country's
new minister of education and research.
A
new law in Montenegro aimed at strengthening science and innovation for development has sparked a war of words between the country's two science
academies, including a call for the country's science
minister to be replaced.
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Under these
new plans,
ministers could force schools missing government benchmarks and classed as «coasting» to become an
academy.
The analysis arrived as
ministers declared that «enemies of
academies» were «scaring and intimidating» parents who were supportive of
academy policies as they launched a consultation into
new powers to intervene in underperforming schools.
The Prime
Minister is proposing that all schools graded «requires improvement» would have
new leadership imposed on them and be taken over by an
academy trust if they do not have a credible plan to raise them to «good» or «outstanding».
Claims that boarding schools can «transform» the prospects of vulnerable young people have been called into question after the
academies minister threw his support behind the government's
new...
Schools Week can exclusively reveal that Mr Smith has been recruited to become the
new chief executive officer of Future
Academies, set up and chaired by Lord Nash, a junior schools
minister.
Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza, CEO, Inspiration Trust Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay
Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris
Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills, CEO, Burnt Mills
Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan, CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas, CEO, Reach 4
Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver, CEO, Outwood Grange
Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education
Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon
Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary
Academy Jo Saxton, CEO, Turner Schools Multi-
Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity
Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The
New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime
Minister for Education
A non-executive board member at the Department for Education (DfE) has taken a
new role with an
academy trust founded by education
minister Lord Nash, Schools Week can report.
But
academy chains vary in their effectiveness; Reform's
new research attempts to find out why Selection in 2016 looks very different from grammars and secondary moderns, Theresa May insinuated last week at prime
minister's questions.
To date, the commissioners (RSCs), part of the government's
new middle tier of accountability for
academies, only recommend to
ministers which free school projects should go ahead.
If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the National
Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime
Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the
New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the
New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the Big Oil companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?