In a speech and question session at the NASUWT union fringe Tristram Hunt came out fighting — defending Labour's record
on sponsored academies and outing problems with Ofsted.
On Local Government, the second post in our series
on sponsored academies reports on the pursuit of excellence in Nottingham
On Local Government, the third post in our series
on sponsored academies: Brooke Weston Trust - boosting standards in Northants and Cambridgeshire
Not exact matches
The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the
Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and
Sponsors are announce that all Viewers Choice Winners will be announced and livestreamed
on February 21st, direct from California.
The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the
Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and
Sponsors are pleased to announce the 8th Annual TASTE AWARDS will take place
on February 21st in Beverly Hills.
The
Academy has not supported controversial nutrition policies that might upset corporate
sponsors, such as limits
on soft drink sizes, soda taxes, or GMO labels;
Focusing
on the three decade long revolutionary period of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and
sponsored by the British
Academy, this project, has gathered original sources to create a university - level online curriculum through which to teach or learn about the Palestinian revolution through the eyes of the participants.
The agency's Healthy Relationship Training
Academy sponsors workshops
on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.
«Your proposals, and the concomitant encroachment
on the independent status of
Academies, seriously impact upon the ability of
sponsors, governors and principals to lead and manage their institutions effectively and efficiently, placing at risk the transformational change in the education system the programme was designed to facilitate.»
This decision had lasting effects
on the
academy, according to an
academy -
sponsored poster exhibit and a hefty exhibit catalog released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the «Anschluss,» the annexation of Austria to Germany in March 1938.
This article discusses the efforts of the Committee
on Human Rights (CHR)
sponsored jointly by the National
Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
Juday made his remarks at a workshop here
sponsored by the National
Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board
on climate and ecosystem changes at both poles.
The international summit
on gene editing,
sponsored by Britain's Royal Society, the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, and the US National
Academies, has grappled with such thorny questions during three days of sometimes - heated discussion
on editing the human genome that comes to a close today.
His story was the inspiration for the panel discussion «Crazy or Brilliant: Betting
on High - Risk, High - Reward Science,»
sponsored by DISCOVER and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in collaboration with the New York
Academy of Sciences.
Jointly
sponsored by the US National
Academy of Sciences and The Kavli Foundation, the Kavli Frontiers of Science bring together some of the very best young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields in a format that encourages informal collective, as well as one -
on - one discussions among participants.
Leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
on February 26 presented exciting updates
on the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative in a congressional briefing
sponsored by the American Brain Coalition, the American
Academy of Neurology, and the Society for Neuroscience in cooperation with the
Berman faculty have led or served
on committees of the National
Academy of medicine related to human and to animal research and led work for the National Cancer Institute creating model national guidance
on informed consent; Berman faculty have served
on multiple Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for federally and privately funded trials including the recent NIH
sponsored ebola trials.
The nonprofit Independent Film Project, which
sponsors the awards, will present them
on the beach in Santa Monica
on Feb. 26, the day before the
Academy Awards.
The
Academy will be
sponsoring an event call «The Sound Behind the Image III: Real Horrorshow»
on Thursday, Ocotber 29, or one week from today.
The Department should reinforce and consistently apply tests of financial risk and due diligence to all
academies and trustees, building
on those used for prospective
sponsors.
«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest
academy chains viable to take
on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to
sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through
academy status first.
The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting
academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new
sponsors from taking
on underperforming schools.
The report focuses
on the arrangements for converting schools to
academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of
sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to
academies.
These brand new schools are set up by parents, teachers, charities,
academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places
on offer.
Reform recommends a more holistic approach to commissioning, where funding agreements for
academy sponsors include a section
on pupil outcomes in addition to assurances
on financial propriety.
Ofsted has a role in advising the EFA and SCG
on the decommissioning of
academies (through batched inspections), but is not formally involved in finding new
sponsors or establishing new contracts.
Sponsored
academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an
academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent,
on average, since 2014.
Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming
academies on their own (as a single
academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑
academy trusts and particularly for
sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.
* 15 — Accountability: National Conference
on Adequate Yearly Progress: Progress and Challenges,
sponsored by the
Academy for Educational Development, for K - 12 administrators, teachers, and education policy makers, at the AED Conference Center in Washington.Contact: Ashley Carlton or Mairin Brady, Washington Partners, 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20005; (202) 289-3903; fax: (202) 371-0197; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.WPLLC.net.
Focus Education, which is set to host a series of «Becoming an
Academy» events this summer providing insight and guidance
on how to approach the transition, is the
sponsor of the charitable multi-
academy trust, Focus Trust, which was established in 2013.
The
academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a
sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an
on - site primary.
At Bett
Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Go
Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the
academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Go
academies programme has so far made an impact
on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour
sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Go
academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.
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.
Students voted
on their favorite design, and the winner was submitted to the Toys of the Future project
sponsored by the Germantown
Academy in Pennsylvania.
16 - 17, 17 - 18 — Outcome - based education: Conference
on quality schools,
sponsored by the National
Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 at the...
8 - 9 — Professional development: Workshops
on a variety of subjects,
sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National
Academy for School Executives, for all educators, to be held in New Orleans, La..
A focus
on sport The Sports Award,
sponsored by Air Structures International, went to the Harefield
Academy in Middlesex.
«Although happy to support the application from Heathfield
Academy Trust, we understand that it is a competitive process and that a final decision
on the
sponsor will be taken by the Secretary of State.»
There is some evidence that
sponsored secondary
academies have had a positive effect
on pupil performance, as the examples below indicate.
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.
The
Academy is delivered in partnership with a national construction company, which
sponsored the capital build and design costs and has committed to taking all graduates
on as apprentices for the next 2/3 years.
On a floor above the main hall, an expo center had been set up, with companies like McGraw - Hill, Connections Academy, K12 Inc., proud sponsors of the event, providing information on how to work with politicians to make education technology a realit
On a floor above the main hall, an expo center had been set up, with companies like McGraw - Hill, Connections
Academy, K12 Inc., proud
sponsors of the event, providing information
on how to work with politicians to make education technology a realit
on how to work with politicians to make education technology a reality.
Half of
academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt
on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.
Free schools are brand new schools set up by parents, teachers, charities,
academy sponsors and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places
on offer.
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.
Asked how the KPIs would be used, a spokesperson for the DfE said: «The role of the regional schools commissioners is to tackle underperformance in
academies and free schools, taking decisions
on academy conversions and encouraging strong
sponsors into the market to support struggling schools.
It is run by the educational trust CfBT, which already
sponsors two
academies and is working
on two further free school proposals.
2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves
on to smugly pointing out how some of the
academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.
When only those
on roll by year 11 were included,
sponsored academies had a 46.3 per cent pass rate for five GCSEs at A * to C.
Run by the
academy sponsoring chain ARK, this primary school will open
on a temporary site in the Queen's Park area of north Westminster in September.