Extract from Lords debate on Education and Society - Dec 8
Sunday, 10 December 2017 10:22
Lord Carey of Clifton (CB):...Formed in 1883, the United Church
Schools Trust was created to provide excellent education for girls.
In 1999, the trustees decided that a social conscience demanded
that we, too, should engage with the programme, and we raised
something like £20 million to show our commitment. Now known as
United Learning, our group is one of the most successful
multi-academy trusts, with more than 60 academies. Now led by Jon
Coles, formerly of the Department for Education,...Request free trial
(CB):...Formed in 1883, the United Church Schools Trust
was created to provide excellent education for girls. In 1999, the
trustees decided that a social conscience demanded that we, too,
should engage with the programme, and we raised something like £20
million to show our commitment. Now known as United Learning, our
group is one of the most successful multi-academy trusts, with more
than 60 academies. Now led by Jon Coles, formerly of the Department
for Education, United Learning has taken on failing schools in the
most deprived areas of the country, providing them with the
support, expertise and assistance to transform them into thriving,
popular schools where pupils make excellent progress. Successful
sixth forms in a significant number of our schools are providing
students with life-changing opportunities to go to university. Many
of those students are the first in their families to do so, and a
goodly number of our academies this year have seen students
securing places at Russell Group universities including Oxford
and Cambridge...
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