The same warning was given last week to England's
biggest academy chain, AET, after tough criticism from Ofsted, which accused AET of «failing too many pupils».
Academies Enterprise Trust (AET),
the biggest academy chain in the country, is migrating to a cloud - based MIS called Progresso operated by Advanced.
New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of
the biggest academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.
Not exact matches
The
biggest of these is very simple - we do not have enough good
academy chains as it is.
Even if
academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a
big expansion in
academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for
academy chains that are underperforming.
One of the
biggest chains of
academy schools in England has been heavily criticised by Ofsted in a letter.