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Jul 30, 2007 · 30 July 2007. Following a meeting of Camden Council's executive on 25 July 2007, it has been announced that UCL has been chosen to manage a new school academy in the borough. The decision comes two years after UCL first approached Camden with the proposition of adapting the government's academy model to a special partnership with the university.
The UCL Academy is a high-achieving, non-selective secondary school established in 2012 by University College London (UCL), one of the world’s leading universities, with a mission to support students of all ability levels to higher levels of attainment and enthusiasm for further study.
The UCL Academy is a secondary school located in Swiss Cottage in the London borough of Camden, London, United Kingdom and sponsored by University College London (UCL). [1] It opened in September 2012 with 180 students in Year 7 and reached full capacity as of September 2017.
- What Are Academy Schools?
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In the English education system, academies are publicly-funded schools which operate independently of local authorities, doing so in a framework which the government claims is designed to promote innovation and raise school standards. Academies have greater autonomy than traditional maintained state schools in areas such as the delivery of the curr...
Academy schools come in a variety of different forms, albeit a distinction can be made between existing schools that move to academy status, and entirely new schools (free schools). Existing Schools – Academies Most academies are existing schools that have converted from a previously maintained status (under the auspices of the local education auth...
The ways in which academies operate, and how they typically differ from the maintained sector overseen by the local authority, are laid out below: Curriculum Where maintained mainstream schools must follow the national curriculum; academies don’t have to follow all aspects of the national curriculum and can chose to follow it in full or in part. Pr...
The academies programme was controversial when it was launched and continues to be so today. Why do schools become academies? The academy programme retains a large number of supporters. The Labour Peer, Lord Adonis, the programme’s original architect, has claimed that academies are the best way to “breach the educational Berlin Wall between private...
Labour Government – 1997 to 2010 Academies were launched initially as City Academies by the Labour government in 2000. Andrew Adonis, who was a Downing Street education policy adviser at that time, and who subsequently became Lord Adonis and a Labour Cabinet Minister. He is widely credited as the architect of the programme. In a bid to tackle the h...
Of the free primary schools that had been inspected by Ofsted in 2019, 37% had been graded as outstanding and 53% had been graded as good. Across all primary school types, 18% were outstanding and 69%, good. Of the free secondary schools that had been inspected by Ofsted in 2019, 27% of secondary free schools were graded outstanding overall, and 55...
Sep 12, 2013 · A FLAGSHIP academy hailed as “the future of education” by Labour peer Lord Adonis has launched an internal review after the “majority of students” were forced into exam re-sits.
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The UCL Academy opened in September 2012 with 180 students in Foundation and 125 students in Level 3. It reached its full capacity of 1,150 students in the autumn of 2016. The academy is based in Adelaide Road in Swiss Cottage, north London.
