Sentences with phrase «of sponsored academies»

He said the findings were another example of sponsored academies using methods to increase their grades to «prove that sponsorship has made a difference».

NW London and South Central was the worst performing area, with 30 per cent of sponsored academies below expected standards, followed by Lancashire and West Yorks at 28 per cent and East Midlands and Humber with 25 per cent.

The number of sponsored academies currently rated as good or outstanding is actually 58 per cent, as previously explained by Schools Week.

NFER also found wide variation in the proportion of sponsored academies across regions.

«What is clear is that the picture is highly variable across the country and, in the case of sponsored academies, across chains.»

As of August 2015, 24 per cent of sponsored academies received an inadequate inspection or were below the floor standard in the first two years after opening.

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».

The DfE response states that, for primaries, 92 % of sponsored academies improve on becoming a sponsored academy.

Education Datalab recalculated the GCSE results of sponsored academies so that all former pupils were included in the results, rather than just those still in year 11.

Ofsted's annual report shows more than a third of sponsored academies, both primary and secondary, are currently rated as requiring improvement, a higher proportion than local authority schools.

The limited nature of the sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».

Many of these sponsored academies were established to boost standards at under - performing schools in disadvantaged areas under Tony Blair's Labour government.

A Department for Education official said it was «extremely disappointing that pupils in a number of E-Act schools are not receiving the excellent education found in the majority of sponsored academies».

Meanwhile, 19 per cent of sponsored academies in the west Midlands are more than 50 miles away from their sponsor, and there are few sponsors located near underperforming northern primary schools which may need to convert in the future.

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.

NFER reports that the distribution of schools falling below floor standards does not reveal any clear patterns that would explain why some RSCs have a higher proportion of sponsored academies than others, but it does posit that potential reason could be a lack of suitable sponsors willing to take on underperforming schools.

To support the fact that councils are doing a good job at keeping standards high in schools, the report reveals that 89 per cent of council - maintained schools are rated as good or outstanding, compared to 62 per cent of sponsored academies; 88.5 per cent of convertor academies; and 82 per cent of free schools.

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.

The figures for primary schools make for similar reading, with eight per cent of sponsored academies that were inadequate before converting getting another inadequate in their first Ofsted inspection.