Sentence examples for applying academy from inspiring English sources

Michael Gove has fast-forwarded the growth of academies - encouraging the most outstanding schools to switch into becoming academies and then applying academy status as a way of improving the weakest.

A number of schools have already said they will be applying for academy status.

"It would have been far better to have given adequate time for the academies bill to be properly debated, to ensure the legislation was right so that schools knew what they were applying for". Academies have total freedom over their budgets, the curriculum and the length of the school day and term.

Originally called city academies, the Labour government dropped the word "city" to allow for academies in struggling rural areas as well as inner cities. Michael Gove, the new education secretary, hopes academies become "the norm" and is urging all schools in the country to apply for academy status, including primaries for the first time.

As well as continuing to open sponsored academies, the coalition Government has opened up the scheme to allow all schools to apply for academy status.

That school has now applied for academy status.

In June Michael Gove claimed that 1,100 schools had applied for academy status.

Gove suggests that schools that want that funding should apply for academy status.

Mike Welsh, president of the National Association of Headteachers, pointed out that any school could apply for academy status.

Education secretary Michael Gove has written to every school in England inviting them to apply for academy status.

Education secretary Michael Gove has invited all primary and secondary schools to apply for academy status and enjoy the greater freedoms that result.