Sentences with phrase «with academisation»

Nothing to do with academisation, they were already good schools under the LA system.

This timely transfer was matched by two other primary schools, with academisation already underway during the inspection.

This suggests that Labour is happy with academisation so long as it is not forced.

Not exact matches

«Tomorrow, armed with the provisions of the Education and Adoption Bill, the Government will use these statements as the justification to ride roughshod over the views of parents and local communities and embark on a programme of academisation.

Yes, I am willing to talk tactics of how we do this (I would start with restoring LA oversight and local democratic accountability over all state funded schools), but until we get to grips with the disaster of academisation we don't deserve to be taken seriously on anything else.

Sadly, most of the attacks on us made by the Tories, such as creeping privatisation of the NHS, academisation of schools, and PFI, originated with recent Labour governments.

Academisation is a relatively new education structure for schools and with this comes need for schools, academies and multi academy trusts (MATs) to share experiences and advice.

The risks involved with signing up to construction contracts, and the ongoing complexities arising from academisation plans, require a legal perspective.

Bett Academies, a new event developed in consultation with senior education leaders in the UK, launches this week to provide advice, guidance and inspiration to academies, MATs and schools exploring academisation.

Based on extensive research with schools, academies and MATs across the UK, Bett Academies has been designed to address key challenges and considerations relating to academisation.

With changes taking place across the UK school system at an almost unprecedented pace, from academisation to assessment changes, it is essential that school leaders have a space to come together, debate ideas and share their experiences and best practice.

The event has been designed to address key challenges and considerations relating to academisation and aims to bring together senior members of academies and MATs with other forward thinking solution providers in the education market.

«We would urge the Government to re-consider its plans for full academisation and to focus on working with councils to ensure all our children get the excellent education they deserve.»

The data identified widespread regional variations in the spread of academisation, with areas such as Bournemouth, Darlington and Middlesborough containing a high percentage of converted schools, compared with West Berkshire, Camden and Brighton and Hove, where there are no converted academies.

2016 has left us with a number of crucial issues to consider and address, including: the impact that Brexit may have on education; the government's plans for academisation and the subsequent U-turn on the plans; the reintroduction of grammar schools; and the continuing teacher recruitment and retention crises.

Academisation is a relatively new education structure for schools and with this comes the need to share experiences.

In addition to The Education Show, this year, Bett Academies was also launched with the aim of providing the best advice and guidance for academies, MATs and schools considering academisation.

«The LGA opposes both forced academisation, and giving significant powers relating to education to unelected civil servants with parents and residents unable to hold them to account at the ballot box.»

He also spoke of his desire to see council education staff set up and run multi-academy trusts, but said conversations would have to happen «quite soon», with primary schools that looked to local authorities for support facing a change in that relationship as a result of forced academisation.

There will be many outstanding schools in areas with a high proportion of underperforming schools that would rightly be outraged if they were forced into academisation for the sin of being located in a such a local authority area.

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

But Croydon said the process of academisation had already begun, and two months later the school was with Oasis Academy Trust.

We will then have a situation where schools with a religious association will have a veto on Academisation and other schools will not have such a veto.

Coasting and floor standards will be scrapped, and replaced with a «single, transparent» accountability measure that will prompt government «support» for schools, but not academisation.

With so many secondary schools already converted, and with the many primary schools unsuitable for conversion, it's «unclear» how feasible further academisation of large numbers willWith so many secondary schools already converted, and with the many primary schools unsuitable for conversion, it's «unclear» how feasible further academisation of large numbers willwith the many primary schools unsuitable for conversion, it's «unclear» how feasible further academisation of large numbers will be.

It rather sums up very neatly why mass academisation is such a disastrous policy and has absolutely nothing to do with raising standards.

«If the government is to pursue the goal of further academisation, it will need to work with local authorities and allow those councils with a track record of strong educational performance to use their expertise within their education department to create MATs,» said Mr Carmichael.

«The LGA opposes forced academisation and giving significant powers relating to education to unelected civil servants with parents and residents unable to hold them to account at the ballot box.»

«How the government can plough ahead with the wholesale academisation of all schools in light of his evidence beggars belief.

In follow - up reports, Ofsted inspectors have sometimes noted that dealing with the pressures to agree to academisation has itself been a conflicting pressure on a headteacher's time when the school was dealing with the issues raised by the initial unsatisfactory Ofsted report.

There are evident parallels with the push for total academisation and the removal of the local authority role in school improvement.

Speaking later, Ms Powell suggested she would attempt to form an alliance with Conservative backbenchers opposed to forced academisation in their constituencies.