Sentences with phrase «sponsored academies report»

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.

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

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.»

Beginning in 2001, the Academy listed 10 food industry sponsors; the 2011 annual report lists 38, a more than three-fold increase;

In the report I recently released, (covered by the New York Times) «And Now a Word from Our Sponsors,» I described the various ways the food industry influences the largest trade group of nutrition professionals: the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

COMPETES codified many of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, including to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA - E) to sponsor «creative, out - of - the - box, transformational» energy research.

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.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

The Sutton Trust report - Chain Effects 2017 - written by Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis, which is now in its fourth year, looks at the results of disadvantaged pupils in academy chains with at least two sponsored academies for at least three years.

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.

Another source found that a third of respondents reported an increased demand for school places since becoming sponsored or converter academies.

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.

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».

More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown.

The Sutton Trust in its fourth annual report on academy chains, Chain Effects 2017 — The impact of academy chains on low income students, reveals the continued lack of impact academy chains are having in turning around the low attainment levels of disadvantaged students, a stated aim of the original sponsored academies programme.

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.

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 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».

However, the report added: «There was tentative evidence of a trend towards greater improvement the longer a sponsored academy is open, which is consistent with previous research.

Sandown Bay Academy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England Primary School to become an all - through academy, the BBC has reAcademy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England Primary School to become an all - through academy, the BBC has reacademy, the BBC has reported.

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.

The ability of RSCs to tackle underperformance is dependent on academy sponsors but the report notes that regions with the greatest need for good sponsors tend to be those with the smallest pool of existing «high potential» sponsors.

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».

Schools Week reported last month how a cash - strapped academy on the Isle of Portland, off the coast of Dorset, was ditched by the new academy trust founded by its sponsor.

Given that the Central Intelligence Agency was one of the main sponsors of the Academy report on atmospheric intervention and a companion volume on carbon dioxide removal from air, there's also plenty of room for conspiracy theories.