Who
is leading this programme?
The Future Leaders programme is supported
by three of the UK’s most forward-thinking educationalists:
the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), Absolute Return
for Kids (ARK) and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT).
National College for School Leadership
(NCSL)
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) exists to help
to make a difference to the lives and the life chances of children
and young people through the development of world-class school
leaders.
The College provides learning and development opportunities and
professional and practical support for school leaders at every
stage in their career. Its core purpose is to develop individuals
and teams to lead and manage their own schools and work collaboratively
with others.
For more information about the NCSL, see the website
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
ARK is a global charity with a mission to transform the lives
of children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness and
poverty. ARK Schools was created in 2004 to help break the cycle
of underachievement by providing high quality education to children
in economically and socially disadvantaged communities in the
UK. It hopes to oversee the development of at least seven new
schools in the UK, and so to contribute to the continuing improvement
of education in inner-city areas.
These schools are all being established under the Academies programme,
either as completely new schools or to replace existing schools.
The first ARK Academy will start admitting students in September
2006, and it hopes to be educating over 4,000 young people in
ARK schools by April 2008.
For more information about ARK, see the website
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
(SSAT)
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is the leading
national body for secondary education in the UK, part funded by
the DfES, delivering the Government's Specialist Schools and Academies
programme. The Government's aim is that by 2008 all schools will
be specialist, except those planned to be Academies.
SSAT’s mission is to raise educational standards across
all English schools and ensure that all children have access to
a good education. Its way of working is based on the principle
'by schools for schools’. The Trust is at the heart of a
growing network of more than 2,900 schools including primary,
secondary, special schools and academies – a network it
believes to be the largest of its kind in the world.
For more information about the SSAT, see the website
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