Sentence examples for on the academies from inspiring English sources

Another program that is placing strain on the academies is an unofficial affirmative-action preference in admissions.

Tensions are set to remain high tomorrow when MPs vote on the academies bill, which would allow schools to break free of local authority control.

Adonis told the annual conference of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents the top independent schools including Eton, that he wanted to see the private schools "educational DNA" imprinted on the academies programme.

It's the end of a discussion session on the academies bill at the Teaching Awards regional final for the south-west; Baroness Shirley Williams, chair of UK judges, asks if she might take a straw poll of the 40-odd nominated teaching staff now gathered in the graceful Georgian setting of Bath's Assembly Rooms.

Watts estimates the cost of universal free school meals for all primary children in England at about £1bn, which, she says, represents just 1% of the DfE's current budget, plus 0.4% of the Department of Health's budget – "far less than the government is spending on the academies conversion programme or NHS reorganisation," says Watts.

In his book A Good School for Every Child, out today from Routledge, Sir Cyril Taylor, former chair of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and - with the former schools minister Lord Adonis - the biggest influence on the academies programme, argues passionately that they are a success.

And, radical or not, it apparently caught on at the academy.

How pleasing to find some surprises--sort of--on the academy members' lists!

There he became a gifted rider and starred on the academy's polo team, one of the best in the country.

Bunting also sits on the academy's governing body.

Where previous coaches have fixated on the academy's weaknesses, Ellerson has concentrated on its strengths.