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Morgan said in parliament this week because of the «pace of academisation in some areas, it will become increasingly difficult for local authorities to offer schools the necessary support».

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.

Not exact matches

Concealed by the wider process of «academisation» of state schools in England is the biggest surge of religious influence in our education system in a generation

On education, Michael Gove's alacrity for supply - side reforms has taken shape in a comprehensive programme of Academisation of secondary schools and some primary schools.

In the early years of academisation — under both Labour and coalition governments — the academy chains that ran into trouble were those that expanded too fast, taking on too many schools.

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.

For many people in education and beyond, the grand Goveian plan of mass academisation still grates.

The event has been designed to address key challenges and considerations relating to academisation and aims to bring together senior members of academies and MATs with other forward thinking solution providers in the education market.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

The data identified widespread regional variations in the spread of academisation, with areas such as Bournemouth, Darlington and Middlesborough containing a high percentage of converted schools, compared with West Berkshire, Camden and Brighton and Hove, where there are no converted academies.

Bett Academies has been developed as a national centre of excellence, providing information, guidance and inspiration for senior leaders in academies, MATs and schools exploring academisation.

We know that academisation in and of itself does not improve education.

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In addition to The Education Show, this year, Bett Academies was also launched with the aim of providing the best advice and guidance for academies, MATs and schools considering academisation.

Lucy Powell, shadow education secretary, said: «There is no evidence to suggest that academisation in and of itself leads to school improvement... In some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.&raquin and of itself leads to school improvement... In some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.&raquIn some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.»

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.

Kevin Courtney, the union's joint general secretary, accused the government of pursuing «a reckless and evidence - free policy of academisation of schools» at the NUT section's conference in Brighton on March 31.

He also spoke of his desire to see council education staff set up and run multi-academy trusts, but said conversations would have to happen «quite soon», with primary schools that looked to local authorities for support facing a change in that relationship as a result of forced academisation.

There will be many outstanding schools in areas with a high proportion of underperforming schools that would rightly be outraged if they were forced into academisation for the sin of being located in a such a local authority area.

If now there's more compulsory student enrolments in «hard» STEM subjects than earlier, while academisation of the sector is occurring, academic results will (initially) take a dip, regardless of schools being academies or foundation schools.

But Mr Shaw added: «In an era of universal academisation and tight local government budgets, it is far from clear that local authorities are best placed to monitor the quality of SEND provision in schools.&raquIn an era of universal academisation and tight local government budgets, it is far from clear that local authorities are best placed to monitor the quality of SEND provision in schools.&raquin schools.»

I was fortunate to teach in strong science departments, that were well equipped for practical work, as were all UK schools until the recent Academisation (your Charter Schools) and increasing marketisation of our education system on the US model.

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.

The secretary of state was asked whether the «speed and process of academisation» had played a major part in what had happened in Birmingham.

She denied this: «I would strongly push back on the suggestion that any of this situation in Birmingham is caused either by academisation or because of changes in local government finance.

A fierce opponent of forced academisation, Barton wrote in TES magazine in March that he would have to be «dragged kicking and screaming» to become the head of an academy.

The teachers and parents at the Bridge Special School, Ipswich and at St Philip's Church of England Aided Primary School in Romsey, who both fought brilliantly and where we won successful campaigns against academisation.

Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, we have had 30 years of a political consensus in this country that standardised tests, competition between schools, market methods like performance pay and academisation are the way to improve education.

However, it is naive to think that the government has abandoned the goal of full academisation, given the extra money involved in running two funding and accountability systems.

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».»

They have a remit of monitoring the performance of academies in their area, making recommendations on free school applications and supporting academisation.

«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 BoarIn 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 Boarin 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 Boarin 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 Boarin 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 Boarin itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

She says she was angry to think that her school, which was found to have serious weaknesses, rather than being in the more critical category of needing special measures, was already being talked of as a candidate for academisation before she had been properly informed about what Ofsted had written in its report.

«How the government can plough ahead with the wholesale academisation of all schools in light of his evidence beggars belief.

Lucy Powell, the shadow schools minister, said there was «no evidence to suggest that academisation in and of itself leads to school improvement».

This begs the obvious questions of whether the national policy commitment to structural change is likely to bring about a transformation in outcomes and whether any improvements that may follow are worth the expense, effort and (in the case of forced academisation) the turmoil that are entailed.

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?

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has previously said that he wants local authorities to play a bigger role in the oversight of schools, but steady academisation makes it look less likely that Labour could turn back the clock on the programme.

«This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school's] legal status.»

There are evident parallels with the push for total academisation and the removal of the local authority role in school improvement.

«Full academisation will mean that all schools will be part of a dynamic self - improving system in which underperformance can be addressed decisively,» he said.

Raised in a family of teachers and talking often of her three school - aged children Powell took to the role well, winning plaudits for her boisterous opposition to government policies, including forced academisation and teacher shortages.