Sentences with phrase «sponsored academy programme»

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.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

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.

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.

And at least four advisers contracted to work in the sponsored academies programme are also working as Ofsted inspectors, some in apparently overlapping areas.

Not exact matches

Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme, and is chair of governors for all three academies.

In April 2006 Des Smith, a head teacher who helped find sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme, was arrested and questioned.

However it fits in with the Church's previously announced expansion plans, with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury having declared that because of the Academies programme, «We are looking at the middle - term future, where the Church of England will be quite conceivably the largest sponsor and provider of secondary education in this country, which is a rather startling and breathtaking proposal.»

The academies programme started under Labour, targeting low - performing schools that were taken over by a sponsor.

«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.»

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 GoAcademies 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 Goacademies 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 Goacademies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.

A DfE spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

The UK's most prestigious universities are turning down chances to sponsor struggling schools through the government's academies programme, research by the British Educational Research Association has shown.

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.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

It is regularly cited by ministers as a leading light of its academies programme and is regarded as one of the country's most successful sponsors.

Another school commissioner, Rebecca Clark, who oversees the academies programme in the South West, told the committee the need to get new potential academy sponsors on board was a «very real priority» for her and her colleagues.

The capital had interventions, such as the London Challenge, reformist local authorities and, in some areas, the «sponsor academies» programme.

Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and the CfBT Schools Trust (CST) are both on the government's «pause list» — meaning they can not sponsor new schools — after running into trouble following quick expansion in the early years of the academy programme.

«Our academies programme is revolutionising the school system, with converter academies leading the way and sponsored academies turning round schools which previously would have been left to languish.

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.