Sentences with phrase «number of academies»

An event designed to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of academies and schools in the process of obtaining academy status, is set to take place next month.

Instead, their initial focus has been on securing sustainable improvement in a smaller number of academies.

The education secretary would not be drawn on her preferred number of academy conversions, saying instead that she had «no targets».

«There is an urgent need for E-Act to take action to tackle underperformance in a relatively large number of academies in the trust and to ensure that pupils» achievement rises to a good standard.»

The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in England.

Below are the different results by number of Academy Award nominations and Academy Award wins.

The upshot is that a movie that is highly ranked by a large number of Academy voters can wind up beating one that gets more first - place votes.

Areas with large numbers of academies are not able to benefit from the same level of support for pupils with SEND than those with mostly maintained schools, she believes.

However, given the sheer number of academies already operating within England, it is highly likely they will continue to play an integral part in the country's education policy and, as Reform notes, these proposals are important «whether or not more, or all, schools become academies».

However, given the sheer number of academies already operating across England, it is likely that RSCs will continue to be a powerful part of the education system.

The best 11 roster outlined above for example demonstrates possibly the lowest number of Academy & Canadian players since..

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

But with freedom comes responsibility and there is also an expectation that academies will be system leaders and an increasing number of academies play an active role in raising standards in their area.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

RSCs also continued to be judged on the percentage of eligible schools issued with academy orders, number of academies above floor standards and the percentage of approved sponsors active in a particular region, among other things.

The total number of academies has now risen to 704, up from 203 a year ago, with applications submitted by a further 814 schools.

Fears about the availability of good sponsors for increasing numbers of academies has led to speculation that the government may look to the 16 to 19 institutions — 90 per cent of which are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — to lead multi-academy trusts.

She said: «But it is only right that the small number of academies that are struggling to stretch their pupils are held to account to ensure all pupils fulfil their potential.

We recognise that the organisation is facing some big tasks: we have taken on a large number of academies, some of which had faced difficulties historically, but we have been seeing improvement over time.

It's a bit of an understatement to say that Van Gaal has got a lot of things wrong in his time at United, but whether the number of academy debutants has come about by accident or design, youth development is certainly not one of them.

It makes sense as the number of academy graduates getting first team action are a rarity in football these days with the influx of money.

There are also a number of Academy U18s among the matchday 23.

During his 21 - year spell as our manager, the boss has won three Premier League titles, seven FA Cups and seven Community Shields, and has given a number of academy graduates their first - team debuts.

Finally, I move onto the government's plans to increase the number of academies in the system by turning outstanding schools into academies.

Within a year, we will have doubled the number of academies - the fastest rate of education reform in recent history.

Each individual school should have the freedom to shape the whole curriculum to their particular pupils» aspirations and priorities — a freedom already enjoyed by the growing numbers of Academies and Free

We have not resisted Michael Gove's emaciation of local authorities» involvement in education in England with the quangoisation of schools through a massive expansion in the number of Academies.

Cameron rattled out a few platitudes about Gove's qualities and achievements: «extraordinary politician»; «the number of academies»; «reforms that will endure».

A number of the academy's institutes and laboratories face closure.

Over the past week or so, the Telluride Film Festival has unspooled a number of Academy Award contenders, in effect launching the Oscar race ahead of the start of the New York Film Festival as well as Toronto Film Festival.

The film is being cited with an honor for its entire ensemble cast, which is a compliment not just to Tarantino, but to a number of Academy Award hopefuls as well.

Each are beyond deserving of Oscar nods and this installation might just seal the deal with a number of Academy voters.

Contemporary critics were somewhat cool to Caged, but it still received a number of Academy Award nominations in addition to Parker's.

But according to a new report, a number of Academy voters are dismissing the film without having actually seen it.

This week, Susan King writes up the lackluster career choices that followed a number of Academy wins throughout the years.

AET has set itself an ambitious programme to provide the best quality education across a large number of academies.

Common accounting issues Recognising income and expenditure in the correct accounting period has proved challenging for a number of academies.

In its 2017 release, the sixth Kreston Academies Benchmark report, one of the leading reports on the health of the sector, raises concerns about the future viability of a number of academy schools, as the government seeks to encourage even more schools to become academies.

Reaching your audience Jonathan Fingerhut of the Strategic Consultancy for Schools, has helped a number of academies transform their marketing and he believes there are a series of clear components of good marketing strategy.

There seems to have been an increase in the number of Academies looking for professional help, although the proportion using recruitment consultants is relatively small.

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

The Department for Education has written to 29 trusts about high pay in the past, however, the number of academy trusts called on explain pay levels were significantly small.

In multi-academy trusts, comprising a number of academies, it is the responsibility of the local governing bodies or local academy councils, operating on behalf of the academy trust, to provide a clear vision and strategic direction for each school.

As the number of academies has increased and cuts in public sector spending have taken hold local authorities have struggled to maintain central services.

The sixth Kreston Academies Benchmark report raises concerns about the future viability of a number of academy schools

«Cleveland High is also home to a number of academies that we have created based upon what we perceive to be the needs of society in the next 20 years,» explained Weiner.

Currently, there are over 700 academies in the West Midlands and Ms Quinn, advised by a board of headteachers of outstanding academies and experienced educational leaders, will shape the role and priorities of the growing number of academies.

Delivering a ten-fold increase in the number of academies since May 2010 is therefore a significant achievement.