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ScienceScope
partners with Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
To
provide scientific software needed to achieve specialist status
Bath,
UK – 11th January, ScienceScope, a leading science education
provider, are partnering with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT),
the lead body for the government’s specialist schools and academies program.
The arrangement
with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust sees ScienceScope becoming a
stakeholder sponsor – meaning that its products will be available to up to 125
English secondary schools bidding for specialist status. ScienceScope has
entered into a stakeholder sponsorship agreement with the Specialist Schools and
Academies Trust and has agreed that the Trust can make its software available
for up to 125 English secondary schools which submit bids for specialist status
in both the November 2005 and March 2006 bidding rounds and the support will be
offered to schools bidding for specialist status in any one of the following
specialisms where science is a target-setting subject:
Science, Sport, Engineering, or Technology.
Schools who are successful in their bids will then benefit from
ScienceScope software, updates and training over the four years of their
specialist designation. The agreement is to
provide up to 125 schools nationwide with scientific software valued at up to £375,000
worth of funding in the first phase. The successful schools will also benefit by
receiving continued support from ScienceScope with four years of free upgrades
of the software, telephone support, and training on the products.
David Crellin,
Director, ScienceScope: “At ScienceScope we are passionate about introducing
more students to the exciting world of Science. ScienceScope working with the
Specialist Schools trust will enable more students to become the scientists of
the future”. Notes
for Editors About
ScienceScope • ScienceScope
is a leading UK company providing Datalogging for science education. •
In 2002 ScienceScope was formed to provide UK and International education
establishments with the tools to explore, innovate and develop Datalogging and
science within their education institutions.
ScienceScope customers are advancing science and teaching by providing a
solid education for the scientists of the future. •
The latest product advancements in Datadisc Pt has seen an increase in
benefits such as auto plug and play connectivity, easy to use calibration
facility, temperature compensation to name but a few.
•
ScienceScope is a diversified company that provides science tools from
Primary school through to Higher Education. • Finding investigations that work and how best they can be achieved has always been difficult. ‘ScienceScope Electronic Resource Book’, an interactive PC based investigations system, shows how investigations, using fully described and labelled pictures, video sequences and an automatic interface to Datadisc, to set up the recording and load previously recorded data, makes teaching science a pleasure. About
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust •
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is the leading national body
for secondary education in England, 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. •
2,381 of the secondary schools in England now have specialist status. The
schools are maintained English secondary schools which teach the full national
curriculum but give particular attention to their specialist subject, sometimes
through an extended school day. All maintained secondary schools are eligible to
bid for specialist status. •
Specialist schools are nearly all comprehensive schools dedicated to
accepting students with a wide range of ability. Schools specialise in teaching
the arts, business & enterprise, engineering, the humanities, languages,
mathematics & computing, music, science, sports, and technology. •
Specialist schools are required to raise £50,000 of private sector
sponsorship and submit a bid to the Secretary of State showing how, if
designated, they will a) raise their standards overall and b) increase
achievement in their specialist subjects and c) help at least six partner
schools, mainly primary schools, to raise their standards. •
All are committed to building more coherent 14-19 pathways and working
with industry and employers to enhance learning opportunities for young people. •
If successful, specialist schools receive a one-off grant of £100,000
from the Department for Education & Skills plus an annual recurrent top-up
grant of £129 per student. A third of the extra annual recurrent grant must be
spent helping partner schools. •
Specialist schools are required to re-bid to retain their designation
every four years, submitting new targets for achievement. Schools which do not
achieve their original targets for improvement or submit a weak bid may be
de-designated. •
Lists of specialist schools by Government Office region can be accessed
from the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust website: www.ssatrust.org.uk •
There are currently 27 academies. The Trust is confident that the target
of 200 academies open, or in the pipeline by 2010, can be met. The mission of
the academy programme is to replace some 200 underperforming schools in areas of
social disadvantage with new schools or, if student numbers in an area require
it, build a new school, the purpose being to ensure that every child can attend
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