The staff noted significant improvements, which support the idea of small, autonomous schools.

It became an autonomous school in 1994 and was one of the pioneer autonomous schools in Singapore.

St. Margaret was awarded the status of autonomous school by the Ministry of Education from 2009.

And many states, including Wisconsin, are experimenting with autonomous public schools, or charter schools, run by teachers and parents.

The autonomous school is dependent on donations from well wishers.

Today, it comprises several autonomous schools in engineering, education, accountancy, and agriculture.

Commonwealth Secondary has been an autonomous school since 1995, a status given to the school because of its academic success and achievement in co-curricular programmes.

Now rewind, and while we are back to districts, in reality next year we'll have some 1,450 autonomous schools, each an island to itself.

This part of the Act allowed new more autonomous schools to be taken out of the direct financial control of Local Authorities.

The single most inspiring book on the success of autonomous schools in changing the life chances of poor pupils is Work Hard.