Sentences with phrase «new academy sponsors»

Likewise, if we know why new academy sponsors are not thriving, then perhaps we can avoid frustrations (and wasted cash) in the future.

Advisers work in a range of different roles including identifying and developing new academy sponsors, ensuring academies and free schools open successfully and tackling underperformance.

Schools complained about limited communication from the RSCs, and are often told they will transfer to new academy sponsors but then hear nothing more.

The Department for Education (DfE) has been ordered to reveal how much it paid new academy sponsors to takeover failing schools, after a 12 - month legal battle concluded in favour of transparency campaigners.

The department was ordered to reveal how much it paid new academy sponsors to takeover failing schools after a 12 - month legal battle concluded in favour of transparency campaigners.

As soon as the independent commissioning body approves a new academy sponsor, the sponsor's information could be automatically uploaded onto an online platform.

The local authority and interim executive board are in the process of discussion with the Regional Schools Commissioner to resolve financial and legal issues and to identify and appoint a new academy sponsor.»

Not exact matches

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 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.

However, the NASUWT suggested that the government's proposal for new academy schools to become exempt charities was «a naked attempt to provide a further tax loophole for private sponsors.»

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.

His story was the inspiration for the panel discussion «Crazy or Brilliant: Betting on High - Risk, High - Reward Science,» sponsored by DISCOVER and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.

* Correction, 5 November, 11:48 a.m.: The New York Academy of Sciences is no longer a sponsor of DREAM and did not sponsor this challenge.

The Cancer Research Institute, the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy, the European Academy of Tumor Immunology, and the American Association for Cancer Research will join forces to sponsor the first International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York, Sept..

«The Academy will supplement the traditional process in which current members sponsor new members by launching an ambitious, global campaign to identify and recruit qualified new members who represent greater diversity,» AMPAS said in a press release at the time.

Schools that are already academies will not be exempt from government intervention, as those deemed as failing or coasting could face being forcibly transferred to new sponsors.

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.

These brand new schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

Ofsted has a role in advising the EFA and SCG on the decommissioning of academies (through batched inspections), but is not formally involved in finding new sponsors or establishing new contracts.

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.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municipality.

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.

«We welcome E-Act's decision to hand over a number of their academies to new sponsors.

The Academy Partnership Award, sponsored by ESPO, last year went to Manchester Communication Academy, a new high school and community facility with three principal partners — BT, Manchester College and the City Council.

WCAT has also confirmed that 11 of its 21 academies have now been formally transferred to new sponsors.

We will continue working towards the successful transition of all our academies to new sponsors.»

8 - 9 — Professional development: Workshops on a variety of subjects, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for all educators, to be held in New Orleans, La..

«North Yorkshire County Council supports the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, which already sponsors a number of schools near Catterick and who the DfE identified as a potential sponsor for the new school in Catterick.

Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»

The government's Education and Adoption Bill will give RSCs responsibility for converting coasting and failing council - maintained schools into academies, while finding new sponsors for those academies which are not up to scratch.

«In March it was decided that the additional primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sAcademy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sacademy sponsor.

A proud sponsor Kevin Dewey, Past Master of the Stationers» Company and a Governor Designate of Stationers» Crown Woods Academy, commented: «The Stationers» Company is very proud to be the sponsor of this new aAcademy, commented: «The Stationers» Company is very proud to be the sponsor of this new academyacademy.

While MATs might have substantial experience integrating sponsored academies and getting ready for their first Ofsted, establishing a brand new free school from scratch presents an array of distinctive challenges.

To register your school's interest in the new PPG sponsored Academy masterclasses, visit: nationalspaceacademy.org / ppg

Nicky Morgan announced in November the five academy sponsors given half of a # 10 million war chest to drive up standards, including setting up seven new academy hubs in five targeted northern areas.

Free schools are brand new schools set up by parents, teachers, charities, academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

It said some councils struggled to find sponsors for new schools, while academies, independent of council control, could be reluctant to expand to meet demand for school places.

Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.

As part of the process of securing a positive new future for Jerounds Primary School, the National Education Trust (NETAT) has been proposed as the new sponsor for the school as it changes from being run by Essex County Council to becoming a new academy.

«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.»

-- Threshold for conversion — a guarantee that only academy chains with a proven track record should be eligible to sponsor new academies

More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.

It plans to ask the government to stop poor quality academy chains from sponsoring new schools and to extend academy freedoms, such as lifting the national curriculum, to maintained schools.

The status of the DfE's guarantee has been unclear and as your article says, the new sponsor of any MAT or academy and presumably any FE college will be expected to take on the deficit.

And while the deficit remains with academy trusts, several pension experts said the government would ultimately have to cough up should a trust collapse without a new sponsor — something described as a «extreme circumstance» by John Wright, head of public sector at pensions firm Hymans Robertson.

And Schools Week has been told that taxpayers would have to step in to cover an academy's deficit in the case of closure without a new sponsor.

A local authority has taken the unusual step of pleading with a regional schools commissioner for an inadequate academy to get a new sponsor.

The council said in a letter that a new sponsor must be found for the academy and has stepped in to support the Education Central Multi-Academy Trust (ECMAT), the school's current sponsors.

There are now a few high - profile projects to create new boarding provision: Holyport College, sponsored by Eton College, is due to open in September 2014; Durand Academy, currently a primary and middle school in Lambeth, has plans for a boarding school in Sussex for pupils 13 - 18, although this is facing obstacles in the planning process and criticism from the chairman of the SBSA.

«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.»