Sentences with phrase «part of academy chains»

Where free schools form part of academy chains this should be made clear on the DfE's list of free schools, so that any analysis can include all the schools in each chain.

The minister for skills and enterprise told the House of Commons this afternoon he wanted to replicate success stories where the 14 to 19 technical institutions functioned well as part of academy chains.

Milburn also recommended a zero - tolerance approach to failure in schools, saying that they should become parts of academy chains if they do not meet minimum standards.

The day - to - day running of the school is down to the head teacher or principal, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.

The day - to - day running of the school is the responsibility of the head teacher or principal, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain

If you are part of an academy chain, you should consider whether to request places through your chain's central office rather than as an individual school.

She said she was satisfied that inspectors could inspect the constituent parts of academy chains.

Although the day - to - day running of academies remains the responsibility of head teachers or principals, they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.

The day - to - day running of the school is with the head teacher or principal, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.

Not exact matches

In one case examined by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) an academy chain allegedly paid # 424,850 to a solicitors» firm part - run by one of its directors.

One chief executive told Reform they felt their chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or academies requiring sponsors.

The accountability part of this statement is crucial however, and it is this issue that lies at the heart of the criticisms facing the academy chains that have been subject to restrictions.

He also confirmed that only seven of the 973 functioning multi-academy trusts (MAT) had been inspected as part of «batched inspections», which evaluate the standard of an entire academy chain due to concerns over standards.

Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: «Just because they have become an academy or are part of a chain doesn't mean that a school will automatically succeed.

A new free school, part of chain of academies that has been set up in parts of Birmingham, has been opened.

Reform, in its new report Academy chains unlocked, has called for the national and regional schools commissioners and parts of the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which deal with financial accountability, to form a new body that could then merge with the schools wing of Ofsted — should all schools become academies.

But with the expansion of academies, it says that academy chains will play an increasingly important part in helping schools to improve.

Lucy Heller, chief executive of the ARK academy chain, said: «One of the benefits of being part of a strong academy network is the importance placed on monitoring - not just to drive up standards but to ensure financial good practice.

But the report said often a failing school will become part of a chain of academies run by one sponsor with a central management function.

When schools become academies, they are overseen by academy trusts, and increasing numbers are part of chains, otherwise known as multi-academy trusts (Mats).