Sentence examples for towards academies from inspiring English sources

David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.

The stampede towards academy status creates a sense of change.

As reported in this column, these DfE brokers are seeking to push many schools towards academy status.

Perry added: "The announcement that all schools will be helped towards academy status seems to dismiss the fact that over 80% of council-maintained schools are currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.

What we have been tremendously disappointed by is the headlong rush towards academy schools; we believe that local democratic accountability is the way to run an education service, not having 22,000 free-standing institutions.

This policy is even less popular than the general move towards academy status – overall 63% of voters say that "teaching is a profession which requires dedicated training", nearly twice as many as the 33% who say "people with different career backgrounds should be welcomed into the classroom, to expand the teaching talent pool".

The ESG cut will be seen as a further assault on the already hugely diminished role of local authorities in education, mirrored in the chancellor's statement by his assertion that all schools would be helped out of local authority control and towards academy status.

But teachers' unions have warned that the shift towards academy status will break up the traditional state school system, with claims that it could become a form of back-door privatisation.

But the Lib Dems are not likely to call for any reversal in the drive towards more academies and free schools.

No more grammar schools, therefore, as we all turn towards the academy of the future.

The National Association of Head Teachers says that, nationally, at least 200 primaries with low results – lower than Downhills' – are already being moved towards sponsored academy status.