Academies are publicly funded independent schools that provide a first-class education.
Academies can benefit from greater freedoms to help you innovate and raise standards. These freedoms include
- freedom from local authority control
- ability to set your own pay and conditions for staff
- freedom from following the National Curriculum
- ability to change the lengths of terms and school days.
We are also making plans for further freedoms for academies in the way they engage in local partnerships and deliver 14-19 education.