Sentences with phrase «of academy schools»

He will be guiding attendees through the evolution of the academy schools programme, and the impact it has had on various areas of performance and achievement.

The performance of academy schools has been a subject of much conversation and debate in the education world, and understandably so.

Hundreds of academy schools, including the largest academy chains, have already done so.

The total number of teachers and other school staff working in academy schools continues to increase, reflecting the progression of the academy schools programme.

The former head of a group of academy schools has denied six charges of fraud by abuse of position.

There is a wealth of evidence on the impact of academy schools, but remarkably little of it investigates policy from the point of view of parents.

The guide presents the findings from a rapid review of evidence on the performance of academy schools.

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.

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.

The rapid expansion of academy schools has seen increased demand for high - calibre governors with management and professional skills.

A spokesperson for the chief statistician said the growth of academy schools in England meant could not make consistent comparisons.

65 per cent of academy school leaders told us they are concerned about the impact of cuts to ESG.

«One Billion Rising» campaign's aim to draw attention to the level of domestic violence worldwide - Baroness Gale Progress of the academy school programme - Baroness Seccombe

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

I am delighted that the Labour candidate for the Liverpool mayoralty, Mr Anderson, has endorsed the extension of academy schools in Liverpool and I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in working to ensure that those schools transform outcomes for young people.

The out campaign suffered a blow when Lord Harris of Peckham, the carpet millionaire who has funded a series of academy schools, announced he was leaving Business for Britain, its sister body.

He was an unremittingly traditional leftwinger, a fierce critic of high defence expenditure, the hereditary membership of the House of Lords and the establishment of academy schools.

It also details «lurches to the left» including higher taxes, ending of the fiscal rules, nationalising Northern Rock, the Agency Workers Directive and restricting the freedom of Academy schools.

It creates the first of a new wave of academy schools, free from local authority control, and also paves the way for parents, charities and other organisations to set up controversial Swedish - style «free schools».

Adonis is the architect of the Academy schools programme and the only person who could seriously lay a glove on Michael Gove.

He guided attendees through the evolution of the academy schools programme, and the impact it has had on various areas of performance and achievement.

Teachers at the annual NASUWT conference have stated that some academy school leaders are receiving excessive salaries and that there needs to be «greater transparency» on the finances of academy schools and MATs.

A further 10 per cent said they didn't know what effect the autonomy of academy schools had in the classroom, according to a poll of 143 academy leaders carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research.

And, until recently, oversight of thousands of academy schools was concentrated in a building in Westminster, and was most definitely not school - led.

Finally, in breaking down the power of local authorities, promoting the spread of academy schools, and reducing the influence of organisations such as the National College, we are in danger of boosting autonomy while creating not a self - improving school system but a collection of 24,000 largely independent and self - focused schools, without the necessary glue to hold them together and to drive progress.

Scrutiny of academy schools is «confused, fragmented and lacking in transparency», say MPs in a report.

One of the biggest chains of academy schools in England has been heavily criticised by Ofsted in a letter.

As recently as June this year, the then shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg pledged that if Labour won the next election it would end the building of free schools and reassert local oversight of academy schools.

Later in life, Blow joined the increasing numbers of artists who previously would not have been seen, alive or dead, at Burlington House and who now gladly became Royal Academicians; but it was the deadly dullness of the academy schools, as she saw it when she was a student, that drove her to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.

Examples include the issue of whether employers in the local government pension scheme may obtain a discount on their contributions by paying them early; and whether the executive head of a federation of academy schools is eligible for membership of the teachers» pension scheme.

There are two types of academy schools.

«The Conservatives» policy on the expansion of academy schools has more to do with «breaking the monopoly of state education» by severing the links with local authorities than with raising standards of education,» she said.

David Simms of the National Foundation for Eductional Research believes that future policy should focus on learning the lessons from the growth of academy schools.

29 per cent of academy schools and 32 per cent of non-academies purchase in a chain or cluster.

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

I would be interested to know what the proportion was of academy schools is in the next 30 schools that you said would have been included if the 5b level had been excluded.

The Coalition Government continued and borrowed the 50 % policy when it introduced its free schools programme in 2010 (free schools are a type of academy school).