Sentence examples for academies up from inspiring English sources

There are now 629 independent "academies", up from 203 last May, including one in six English secondary schools.

Sponsors will provide around 20% of the initial capital costs of setting up the academy, up to about £2m, while the Department for Education and Skills funds the remainder of the capital costs.

Four years later, the academy has made scant progress: Oscar voters are 91% white and 76% male, according to a new Times study.

Blacks are about 3% of the academy, up from 2%; Asians and Latinos are each just over 2%, with both groups up slightly.

Only maintained schools and those academies set up between 2008 and 2010 must comply with these standards.

Literary academies sprang up throughout Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries; the most famous of these was the Crusca Academy, founded in Florence by A.F. Grazzini in 1582.

Others point to a string of academies set up by Belgian clubs, like an 18-million-euro state-of-the-art site built by Standard Liège.

Contemporary artists in neighboring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh benefited from art academies set up over the years by the British Raj, but Nepal's isolation stunted development.

The pitch will be a broad appeal about improving urban education, and naming rights for the library, the science labs, even the middle academies, are up for grabs.

Also, academies set up from September 2010 do not need to comply with the standards and are free to promote healthy eating and good nutrition as they see fit.

Sponsors of the first academies contributed up to £2m towards the costs of the new or refurbished school buildings, and the government provided the rest of the funding.