Sentence examples for open academies from inspiring English sources

Liberal Democrat plans to return academies to local authority control could mark the effective abolition of the academies programme (or at least the removal of one of its defining characteristics); Conservative plans to turn ever more schools into academies, and encourage parents to open academies in their area, could mark the effective abolition of local education authorities.

The Open Academy was the idea of Malcolm Whitelaw, head of learning and skills at Swaleside.

Meanwhile, the Open Academy is taking part in the Inside-Out prison exchange programme, founded in the US in 1997.

Swaleside, with 1,100 inmates, is the first prison to create a university-like campus, the Open Academy, which opened last September.

In 2012, Nathan joined forces with Cornwall College to open Academy Nathan Outlaw offering NVQ student chefs and Front of House students enhanced learning opportunities.

"The Open Academy is not only providing a great resource to prisoners – their enthusiasm and that of the staff is attracting more learners to take part in what we know can change lives".

To be clear, Open Academy isn't entirely altruistic.

Open Academy students get paired with mentors and an open source project to which they'll add code.

Editor's note: Jay Borenstein is computer science lecturer at Stanford University and Founder of Facebook's Open Academy.

After a successful pilot at Stanford last year, Open Academy is expanding to a total of 22 universities. .

To help computer science students prepare for jobs (and boost its own recruiting efforts) Facebook today publicly launched Open Academy.