*CGPC*

Has he tried the Cambridge careers service? http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/ They have some very good advisers and can be accessed indefinitely by alumni.

Decisions are very unlikely to be announced until after Purdah now, so I would expect next week at the earliest (and that's assuming that decisions have indeed been made already and we're just waiting for the announcements...).

TE44, hopefully I can clarify the point around "purchasing" places. Alternative provision Free Schools and academies (and, soon, all state APs) are funded at a per place base level by central government. This gives them some financial stability, as obviously the student population goes up and down much more than a mainstream school. Where a school, LA or other referring body wants to send a student there, they "purchase" a place by paying a top up fee. For Harris Aspire, the expectation is that most places will be purchased by Harris schools (presumably because they designed it to be the right size for the approx. number of referrals they make per year for students this school might be suitable for) but other schools, LAs and commissioners will also be able "purchase" places by paying the top up fee. This model of a cluster of mainstream schools running AP is increasingly common, so there's nothing unusual going on as far as I'm aware. I should add that I'm in no way associated with Harris but I work closely with a lot of academies and Free Schools so spend a lot of time looking at this stuff! TE44 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://cds.bromley.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId > =4445 > > I didn't realise Harris Aspire Academy for > alternative education opened last Sept. If you > scroll to 22c on link above. > I find it quite confusing, it seems to be saying > there will be a charge unless children are > referred from a harris academy. Sorry if this has > been discussed already, if so can you tell me > where. Link below for Harris aspire academy. > arris offering alternative schools and moving > children from mainstream, must be closely > monitered in light of the > question around stats. > > http://www.harrisaspire.org.uk/653/your-questions > -answered

Unless there are 2 Harris Academy Peckhams, it's rated 'good' by Ofsted with 'outstanding' capacity for improvement. Absolutely no axe to grind, have just been doing a lot of research on the academy chains recently and that didn't sound right to me, so checked on the Ofsted site: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/134225

The 17.10 left on time, despite claiming that it was going to be delayed. So hopefully things are getting slowly back to normal...