Sentences with phrase «number of academy sponsors»
The commissioners are part of the government's middle tier of accountability for academies, brought in last September and tasked with tackling underperformance and boosting the number of academy sponsors.
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Brought in last September, they were told to tackle underperformance and to boost the number of academy sponsors.
Appointed by the Secretary of State, RSCs have a remit of tackling underperformance in academies and boosting the number of academy sponsors.
The task of boosting the number of academy sponsors has been made a priority of the regional schools commissioners.
Not exact matches
The Cleveland Clinic Office of Diversity, in collaboration with the Office of Civic Education Initiatives and Health Legacy of Cleveland, is sponsoring the Saturday Academy to increase the number of African American and Hispanic physicians, scientists and physician leaders.
The IAA is rooted in the sponsored Academy movement but is now attracting increasing numbers of like - minded converters, primary, special and free schools.
«We welcome E-Act's decision to hand over a number of their academies to new sponsors.
I will also be examining the impact this scheme had on the number of university applications, before turning my attention to the subsequent evolution of the academies and how they grew and developed under the Coalition Government with its converter and sponsor academies.
«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.
However, the research did outline that the smaller number of «sponsored» academies which were previously under - achieving, made more progress when they became academies.
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.
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.
A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.
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.
The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.
The number of sponsored academies currently rated as good or outstanding is actually 58 per cent, as previously explained by Schools Week.
But we're also looking at increasing the number of converters that we get in the region, and a major priority is to build our pool of academy sponsors.»
A DfE spokesperson said: «The role of the RSCs is to make decisions on whether schools can convert to academy status, increasing the number and effectiveness of academy sponsors, and tackle underperformance in all schools using academy measures where appropriate.
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.
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.
A growing number of institutions also sponsor Affiliated Fellowships at the Academy.