Sentences with phrase «to sponsor academies»

Latest government figures, released last week, show that eight schools set to become sponsored academies in the next few months are still yet to find a sponsor.

Overall, GCSE pass rates in sponsored academies fell 5.2 per cent compared with a 4.1 per cent drop in maintained schools.

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

Like further education colleges, sixth - form colleges can sponsor academies as independent external organisations, but under the rule change they will be able to form and head their own trusts.

The report found that differences between sponsored academies open for between two and four years and maintained schools with similar intakes were «generally small and mostly not statistically significant».

Of the types of academy, sponsored academies performed the worst across all areas, while free schools were the best - performing.

The department said work is underway «with an expectation that schools will become sponsored academies and join the hubs» throughout next year.

For black pupils the fall was 5.7 per cent in maintained schools compared with 4.3 in sponsored academies.

For sponsored academies, it might be possible to jump - start improvements in a failing school, but can that be sustained over time?

In the early sponsored academies, this was all very easy: the preceding governing body was simply replaced.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Due to the turbocharged sponsored academy programme hundreds of thousands of children are now getting a better education - a key driver in our mission to spread educational excellence everywhere.

«It is also worth noting that converter academies were all good or outstanding schools before they became academies, and the Government has not chosen to highlight the results in sponsored academies which are significantly lower, with only 44.7 % of children achieving five or more good GCSEs (including English and Maths) compared to 63.3 % in converter academies.»

On Local Government, the second post in our series on sponsored academies reports on the pursuit of excellence in Nottingham

«That is why we are replacing failing schools with sponsored academies, which are proven to raise standards, opening new free schools where parents want them and introducing a more rigorous curriculum, with qualifications that match the world's best.»

The Department for Education (DfE) has claimed that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies.

Black and Chinese pupils at sponsored academies were hit less hard by a dip in GCSE pass rates last year than their peers at converter and local authority schools, according to information released by the Department for Education (DfE).

He added: «We know that for some academies there is more to do - which is hardly surprising when many of these are most likely to include sponsored academies which have a history of low performance in their former schools.»

«Before any more schools are converted, the DfE needs to investigate whether it is just certain chains (and what to do about them) or whether the entire sponsored academy model is flawed.»

Gibb's handling of «evidence» is suspect: he confuses «systematic» and «synthetic» phonics using both words as if they mean the same thing; he constantly asserts that sponsored academies improve at a faster rate than all other schools (conveniently ignoring the fact that the former start from a lower base) and just six days ago he repeated the discredited data that the UK had plummeted down league tables between 2010 and 2000.

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.

Due to the turbocharged sponsored academy programme hundreds of thousands of children are now getting a better education - a key driver in our mission to spread educational excellence everywhere.

«Secondary sponsored academies that have been open for three or more years have results that are above those of their predecessor schools, even against these new, tougher, standards.»

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

The latest inspection results show 350,000 children now study in sponsored academies rated «good» or «outstanding».»

In joining the Harris Federation, Garrard Academy becomes a new sponsored academy, which means it will not be inspected again until its third year of operation — unless Ofsted sees good reasons to visit beforehand.

As National Director for Strategy and Quality Improvement for Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT)-- which has sponsored academies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate governance.

For Church of England sponsored academies, the memorandum states that the Secretary of State and the National Society both expect a diocesan or strong church school - led academy trust will be the sponsor for any church academy.

According to government statistics, there were 17 sponsored academy trusts established by universities with 38 schools as of October 1 last year.

A number of universities have already sponsored academies or agreed to partner new trust schools but universities secretary John Denham today launched a new drive to increase participation.

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.

In addition to this, seven warning notices were issued to secondary academies, three of which were converter academies, while four ere sponsored academies.

While sponsor academies tended to have a higher proportion of poorer pupils, these figures raise concerns that if the government pushes forward with its focus on academies and free schools it could lead to increased educational inequality across the country and limit the life chances of children from poorer families.

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.

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.

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 Government.

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

While MATs might have substantial experience integrating sponsored academies and getting ready for their first Ofsted, establishing a brand new free school from scratch presents an array of distinctive challenges.

Converter academies are less prevalent in this group, with more sponsored academies, foundation schools and community schools.

«Yet Nicky Morgan is persisting with driving through Parliament a Bill that will force more and more schools to become sponsored academies whilst depriving parents and governors of any say in the matter.

Now, it could be the researchers didn't include the 1,200 post-2010 sponsored academies in this inadequate category and so the lack of positive effect reflects the oddness of an exclusive small group.

For Catholic sponsored academies, the presumption will be that the diocese's preferred sponsorship arrangements will be accepted.

Critics say that the downfall of two of the largest for - profit education firms sponsoring academies marks the death knell for such companies in the English state system.

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.

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.