Sentences with phrase «not academisation»
Coasting and floor standards will be scrapped, and replaced with a «single, transparent» accountability measure that will prompt government «support» for schools, but not academisation.
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This suggests that Labour is happy with academisation so long as it is not forced.
Yes, I am willing to talk tactics of how we do this (I would start with restoring LA oversight and local democratic accountability over all state funded schools), but until we get to grips with the disaster of academisation we don't deserve to be taken seriously on anything else.
A new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) and the London School of Economics (LSE) has advised that academisation «is not a panacea» and «does not automatically raise standards».
Wanting to take the step towards academisation on his own terms, he joined other schools in Northampton who started working together to form NPAT as equal partners, not built on the back of a top - down sponsor.
Academisation «does not automatically raise standards» and many local authority run schools are outperforming academies, according to new research published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).
The research also found that academisation continues to vary by region and phase, but suggests that these variations «do not appear to be due to the number if underperforming schools».
Schools where 11 - year - old children don't meet the scores expected in reading, writing and maths, can still be deemed «above the floor» — and so exempt from interventions including forced academisation — if those children have made sufficient progress.
However, the source maintained that the government would not alter its position on the academisation deadline of 2022.
Brian Lightman, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, has responded by warning that «academisation is not a magic wand».
We know that academisation in and of itself does not improve education.
However, this is not due to increased rate of academisation in primary schools, as growth in the proportion of schools becoming academies has been steadily falling across both phases in recent years, but the decline in growth in the secondary sector has been steeper.
In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results.
A freedom of information request to the Department for Education (DfE), however, shows that one of the eight key performance indicators (KPI) for RSCs relates to the number of academies in their region — including among schools not normally targeted for academisation.
Her claims have today been shot down by unions who say the new figures prove academisation isn't a silver bullet for failing schools.
Primary school academisation stalled for very good reasons, and the data simply does not support the notion that it raises standards in the primary sector.
So the inference that «poor» local authorities should be stripped of all schools is another bit of weaselly nonsense aimed at getting to full academisation by stealth if it can not be achieved though direct means.
This bill must not have a presumption that intervention and academisation are what's needed.»
The same report was at pains to point out that «academisation is not always successful nor is it the only proven alternative for a struggling school.
Writing in The Guardian last month, Warwick Mansell pointed out that of the 447 schools rated inadequate, more than one in four — 123 — had failed their Ofsted a year or more ago and had not yet converted to academy status, or been recorded by the DfE as planned for academisation.
We will then have a situation where schools with a religious association will have a veto on Academisation and other schools will not have such a veto.
«It's not universally the case that academisation creates good or outstanding schools.
CofE and RC churches should be fighting mass academisation not seeking concessions for themselves.
So I want to move away from forced academisation being seen as this punitive threat that can also hang over schools that are not failing.
The government still has not given any consideration as to how to drive up standards in those schools where academisation has not brought about any improvement.
The answer is a pragmatic, jump - before - you're - pushed one: «What we didn't want to do was to get to a stage where full academisation was in the offing, and the regional schools commissioner said, «You've got two years to convert, and this is the list of multi-academy trusts you can join,» and I would look at it and go, «You must be joking».»
«In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.
«Academisation casts no fairy dust on schools and doesn't improve school performance» (Mary Bousted, TES)
Under DfE policy, for a school that is in special measures or has «serious weaknesses», conversion to academy status is the preferred way forward, but it is not the only solution to a school's problems, and there is no legal requirement for academisation until an enforcement notice has been served.
The school, she says, is now improving and had been recognised as improving by Ofsted — proof that academisation was not the only way to proceed.
«But we were quite certain in this school that, while we knew we had issues to address, academisation was not the best way to do this.
Mr Brennan said at the committee stage: «If accountability measures are influential for schools, why are they not influential for you in relation to coasting schools and your accountability measures relating to the academisation of schools?
«The shift to universal academisation will probably not produce the benefits that the Chancellor hopes for and the price paid for the change will be high.
Knight said that one of the major problems was that the middle tier created to oversee academisation, including regional school commissioners (RSCs) and their deputy directors, did not have any special schools expertise.