Sentences with phrase «other academy sponsors»

Struggling academies would be switched to other academy sponsors.

Not exact matches

In The Heart of the Matter, a 2013 report sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a reader is confronted with language like this: «Among other benefits [studying the humanities] strengthens clarity of written and oral expression, critical and analytic reasoning, and the creativity to think outside the box.»

In a meeting sponsored by the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies» Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Fan and 15 other experts in the field described the benefits of using pet dogs with naturally occurring (rather than laboratory - induced) tumors in early cancer drug trials.

Since September 2010, 2,949 Primary Schools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academy trust.

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However, in the studies we looked at, a majority of converter and sponsored academies report that they give support to other schools, and secondary academies, larger academies and converter academies are more likely to do this.

The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then CEO of the multi academy trust created.

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.

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.

Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.

Donations from wealthy sponsors are helping academy trusts to safeguard school trips, breakfast clubs and sports competitions as other schools are forced to axe provision as the funding...

Donations from wealthy sponsors are helping academy trusts to safeguard school trips, breakfast clubs and sports competitions as other schools are forced to axe provision as the funding squeeze bites.

As a NET sponsored academy, the school would therefore have the opportunity to learn from others about how they have improved attendance, for example though high quality mentoring.

I was tasked with thinking through the role of local authorities within this new diverse education landscape where free schools, sponsored academies, converter academies and local authority schools all co-existed alongside each other.

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

On the whole, regional commissioners, who are charged with overseeing standards in the academy system, tried to get involved with struggling academies before they got so bad that there was no other option but to find another sponsor and new management, Sir David said.

Aldridge Education was established as a national multi-academy trust by the Aldridge Foundation in 2016, taking over responsibility from the Foundation for its family of non-selective academy schools and colleges, some of which are part of the MAT whilst others are currently Single Academy Trusts sponsored by Aldridge Eduacademy trust by the Aldridge Foundation in 2016, taking over responsibility from the Foundation for its family of non-selective academy schools and colleges, some of which are part of the MAT whilst others are currently Single Academy Trusts sponsored by Aldridge Eduacademy schools and colleges, some of which are part of the MAT whilst others are currently Single Academy Trusts sponsored by Aldridge EduAcademy Trusts sponsored by Aldridge Education.

The different treatment of surpluses and deficits seems out of line with other aspects of the legal position for a sponsored academy, where it is treated as a new school — for example in terms of performance and Ofsted inspection.

«I've always been passionate about the academies movement, passionate about high quality education, and had been involved in sponsoring other schools and seeing that transformation from special measures to becoming a good school.

Other indicators include the quality of sponsors in the region and the quality of academies in the area.

Other barred sponsors include some of the country's larger chains, such as Academies Enterprise Trust and CfBT Education Trust.

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.

It is therefore of concern that the NAO report highlighted that the DfE «does not yet know why some academy sponsors are more successful than others».

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

Hill's was the funding sponsor and the other dental groups, the American Veterinary Dental College and the American Veterinary Dental Academy voted to join the campaign.

By calling the science «still incomplete,» Bush also lent new credibility to the tiny handful of industry - sponsored «greenhouse skeptics» who have been thoroughly discredited by the mainstream community of climate researchers — including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and ominous.

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