Academies

(asked on 7th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the academies programme for the next five years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 14th January 2020

The Government's vision is to continue developing a world-class school-led system by giving school leaders the freedom to run their schools in the way they know best. The academies programme can provide opportunities for this through its key principles of autonomy, accountability and collaboration.

Academies will continue to be the at the core of the Government's flagship schools reform policies. Over 7 in 10 sponsored academies that have been inspected by Ofsted are now judged 'Good' or 'Outstanding'. Prior to converting to academies, only 1 in 10 of these schools were judged ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’.

The Government wants to ensure that the opportunities afforded by the academies programme are spread to those areas that are not currently benefitting.

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