Sentences with phrase «to set up free schools»
Perhaps it's also too soon to recommend another remedy: setting up free schools which may actually threaten the viability and improvement of existing schools.
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Setting up a free school board A free school is, by its very nature, borne out of a need identified by parents and community members.
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The party wants to lift the ban on new grammar schools and make existing selective institutions, universities and independent schools set up free schools.
Journalist Toby Young, who helped set up a free school in west London, said Mr Hunt had been «less than candid» about Labour's policy as it was considering granting councils the power of veto over free schools in their boroughs.
«I'm sure plenty of management companies would be prepared to bear some of the capital cost of setting up a free school in return for a 10 - year contract.»
In his personal film for BBC1's This Week, Mr Kennard spoke of turning his skills from the turntable to the timetable, by setting up the free school, a scheme championed by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
«Without the proper involvement of local authorities throughout the process of setting up a free school, it is less likely to offer value for money or a good quality education for local children,» a spokesperson said.
«There are many good examples of local authorities working in partnership with groups setting up free schools, but too often authorities perceive these schools as a threat and end up being an unnecessary obstruction to a solution which would work for all.»
The underrepresentation of the county's best universities in academy sponsorship challenges the Conservative Party's recent election manifesto and a green paper published last year, which both suggested that universities should all get involved in sponsoring academies or setting up free schools if they want to charge the highest tuition fees.
Henry Stewart, from Local Schools Network, a campaign group that supports locally maintained schools, said it was «absolute nonsense» to claim free schools would increase social cohesion, and added: «These are spurious claims for setting up a free school.»
The latest application window to set up a free school opens on 28 September and runs until 7 October, with pre-application registration opening today.
The New Schools Network, which helps set up free schools across England, believes co-locating could help address what they see as a lack of suitable sites in London.
«When this government sets up free schools in places where there are already surplus places supposedly to create more choice, it does so by taking money away from other kids in real need of a school place,» he will say.
The University of Birmingham set up the free school with # 20m investment from the Department for Education.
In his personal film for BBC1's This Week, Mr Kennard spoke of turning his skills from the turntable to the timetable, by setting up the free school, a scheme championed by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
The New Schools Network, a charity that helps set up free schools, put the proposals forward to the Education Select Committee, claiming that parents should have a legal right to force intervention in underperforming schools.
Perhaps local Labour parties could set up free schools in less deprived areas.
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News that party members who voted against the coalition government's plans to set up free schools have misunderstood what the policy is about.
Subject to the secretary of state's approval, parents, teachers, charities and other groups will be able to set up a free school.
On 21 June 2011, the BHA submitted an FOI request, asking for the names, locations and religions of all 604 groups that had then applied to set up Free Schools.
On Tuesday, the British Humanist Association (BHA) made its final written submission in an ongoing Information Tribunal case over whether the Government must publish a list of all groups which have proposed to set up Free Schools — including their name, location and religion.
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North)(Lab): Does the Secretary of State think that granting a licence to one of the Chuckle Brothers to set up a free school was one of his better ideas, and now that it has been rescinded how much did it actually cost to progress the project?
We continue to be concerned about pseudoscientific groups proposing to set up Free Schools — as well as about pseudoscience at existing maintained schools and Academies.
We offer a range of support to groups interested in setting up a free school and I hope that we will be hearing from more and more people ready to set up new schools where they are wanted and needed the most.
Elected police and crime commissioners should be given powers to set up free schools to help support troubled children, according to Home Secretary Theresa May.
However, although challenging, setting up a free school is achievable.
Make no mistake, setting up a free school is not easy.
Support will include drawing on the experience and the expertise of independent schools in leadership, teacher training, curriculum support, school improvement and sponsorship, or setting up a free school.
It takes something special to set up a free school.
Asking universities to set up free schools is «insulting» to teachers and heads, the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has claimed.
In September 2016, Schools Week reported on comments made by Oxford's vice-chancellor, who had claimed that asking universities to set up free schools was «insulting» to teachers and heads.
Prior to being elected, Suella helped set up a free school, Michaela Community School in Wembley, and is currently working closely with schools in Fareham to set up a free school providing A levels in the town.
Pearson, the mighty global edu - business, is «in discussion» with groups wanting to set up free schools.
Applicants included the journalist Toby Young, who went on to set up the West London Free School and Katharine Birbalsingh, the teacher who strongly criticised the state education system at the Conservative party conference in 2010 and who went on to set up a free school in north London.
Most of the legal changes needed for the expansion of the academies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in the summer.
Christine Blower, NUT general secretary, said: «This survey clearly shows that parents are not clamouring to set up free schools, have no issue with schools being accountable to the community through democratically elected local authorities, and absolutely reject the premise of their children's education being handed over to private companies.
Asked about union concerns over the separation of free schools from councils» democratic structures, he added: «If unions wanted to set up free schools and build in these accountability processes involving the local council they have got the opportunity to do that.»
And while there might be teachers wanting to set up free schools, the teachers» unions are among the fiercest critics, saying they are a backdoor way of dismantling the state system.
Most applicants wishing to set up a free school are rejected; only those with relevant experience and a viable plan are accepted.
It also says applications to set up free schools are not emerging from areas with the greatest forecast need and calls on the government to set out «how and by when it will encourage applications» from these areas.
Other parents wanting to set up free schools have turned to groups behind existing academy chains to help make their dreams a reality.
As a result, it applied to set up a free school, the Swan, which will open in 2019.
A quarter of applications to set up free schools in England over the past two years were from faith - based organisations, official data shows.
Natalie Evans, director of the New Schools Network, which advises groups wishing to set up free schools, said: «The tribunal's decision is very disappointing.
Speaking on the day of the deadline for groups applying to the Department for Education to set up a free school, Natalie Evans, Director of the New Schools Network, commented:
In order for the DfE to approve your application, you need to be able to show that your governing body will have the necessary skills and expertise required to set up a free school.
This page contains links to data sources that can be useful to groups applying to set up a free school.
This document will help groups looking to set up a free school in their multiacademy trust (MAT) or existing schools that need to create a MAT in order to establish a new free school.