The phrase "admission authorities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to organizations or individuals responsible for overseeing the admission process, typically in educational contexts.
Example: "The admission authorities will review all applications before making their final decisions."
Alternatives: "admissions office" or "enrollment officials".
"The increasing number of schools that will be outside local authority control (including academies and free schools), and which will, therefore, act as their own admission authorities, is especially troubling".
Parents don't have to embark on a series of calculations about their chance of getting into different schools, as happens now in some of the London boroughs, where there is a multiplicity of admission authorities.
Kirsty Williams says "our school admissions code is clear that admission authorities should consider requests for admission outside the normal age group carefully.
"Admission authorities must ensure their arrangements will not disadvantage a child from a particular social group". Top comprehensive schools in England and Scotland also had around half the overall proportion of disadvantaged pupils.
Academies are their own admission authorities - operating outside of the local authority system - and it is expected that in the course of this year a majority of secondary schools will have become academies.
"We are working closely with school admission authorities to make sure they are acting within the rules and we will not hesitate to intervene where this is not the case".
i) Whether the admission authority stuck to its own rules, which were published in its admission arrangements.
ii) Whether the admission authority acted unreasonably - ie completely illogically, or not based on the facts of the case (for instance, the published admission arrangements, the number of applicants, the number of classrooms at the school, and other factors to do with the school or the admission authority).
The admission authority will be either the governing body of the school for foundation, voluntary aided and independent schools; or the local education authority (LEA) for other state schools (community and voluntary controlled).
If there are more children wanting places at a school than there are places available, the admission authority has to follow a set of rules to decide who to offer places to.
If the appeal panel decides that your case is the stronger, it will uphold your appeal and the admission authority is then under a duty to admit your child to the school.
