Sentences with phrase «taking academy status»

Schools taking academy status will become independent schools, with their assets becoming the responsibility of trusts, which will be run as charitable companies.

By taking academy status, schools will receive their funding directly from central government and will have greater autonomy over how they are run.

Not exact matches

Our Academies Act takes the existing programme further by allowing any publicly - funded school to convert to academy status.

copies of any correspondence - electronic or otherwise - which took place between the local authority and the school and the DfE and the school regarding academy status;.

minutes / notes of any internal meetings which took place to consider, plan or prepare for proceeding to academy status;.

Subjects whose role - playing raised their status in their own eyes took twice as many candies as those who compared themselves to «The Donald,» the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

An event designed to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of academies and schools in the process of obtaining academy status, is set to take place next month.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

«We have got to persuade another trust to take on a school that has already been brokered once [converted to academy status].

Challenges However, coming from the local authority sector it can take time to realise the full potential of academy status.

Education legislation states that this may take place before an application for academy status is made and must be completed before a funding agreement is entered into with the Secretary of State.

Further to consultation taking place, if the governing body feels that it is in a position to decide to convert to academy status, it will need to be documented within minutes of a meeting.

Thirty per cent of academy senior leaders who took part in a poll on the additional autonomy that comes from academy status said it had «no effect» at all in the classroom, while 18 per cent said it had a negative impact.

Over the past year, 1,120 schools converted to academy status and the number of multi-academy trusts registered to take over schools increased from 800 to around 1,000.

Taking a sample of schools which converted to academy status between 2010 and 2012, there were 3.6 % more pupils achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths than comparable local authority schools.

The status of the DfE's guarantee has been unclear and as your article says, the new sponsor of any MAT or academy and presumably any FE college will be expected to take on the deficit.

«We want as many schools as possible to take advantage of the significant benefits academy status brings because it means more schools run by great heads and teachers, not local authority or Whitehall bureaucrats, and more children getting a first - class education.

The combination of the regulations and statutory guidance means that schools that convert voluntarily to academy status always take their balances with them, whether they are in surplus or deficit.

strong leadership, and how you will take on the extra responsibilities of academy status such as HR and contract management

The changes also allows special schools and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) to become academies and sets out the conditions for faith schools to take on this status.

Studies like this usually take time to get published, but Emanuel «decided to use his status as a member of the National Academies of Science, which let him pick his own peer reviewers, who were likely to be friendly and get the review done quickly,» Ars Technica reported.