As well as the different types of academy, there is
the question of the academy chains which run groups of academies.
Not exact matches
Sir David (pictured), who started the job at the beginning
of February, was unable to answer
questions about his plans to introduce a new tier system for
academy chains and repeated requests from Schools Week for further information about transparency — and why it was now missing from his plans — were also refused.
The element
of compulsion could aggravate parents and there might be difficult
questions about the merits
of successful local schools being handed over to an unfamiliar
academy chain.
Instead, the media is now rightly asking
questions about the performance
of those
academy chains with poor or middling results.
There are also many
questions to be asked about how
Academies and
chains of Academies go about there procurement
of goods and services.
The rapid expansion
of GAT again raises
questions about
academy chains being allowed to grow rapidly.