academisation Stuart Kime Director evidencebasededucation This session Set the scene around Education Excellence Everywhere and the academisation programme The current direction of education policy ID: 830373
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Setting the scene: the White Paper and academisation
Stuart Kime
Director,
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Set the scene around Education Excellence Everywhere and the
academisation
programmeThe current direction of education policySome of the key changes announced in the White PaperSome updates to the White PaperSome thoughts on the future
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Slide4Shifting philosophies: from Gove to Morgan
Autonomy is the driver of improvement
A thousand flowers bloom
Schools earn more autonomy if they want it
MATs are the drivers of improvementAutonomy, but in a managed, supported wayAll schools should be academies
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Slide5Where are we? And how did we get here?
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2002 - 2010
2010 - 2013
2013 - 2016
Educational Excellence Everywhere
System-wide scale-up
‘Sponsored academies’ introduced as a system measure to address failure
Complete autonomy initially
Intro of ‘Converter academies’ to enable high-performing schools to earn their autonomy
‘Borrowed’ the sponsored academy model
Multi Academy
Trusts;Teaching
School Alliances; Regional School Commissioners
Slide6Recent developments
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2015 Education Festival
16
th
March 2016
25
th
April 2016
6
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May 2016
NiMo
: U-turn / ‘Z-turn’
NiMo
: new powers introduced to trigger conversion of all schools in an area if a council is underperforming or if it is no longer financially viable for it to run schools
NiMo
: we have “seen the unleashing of some truly excellent practice”…” building on Andrew Adonis’s fledgling academies programme”
Budget announcement: “Every school will be an academy by 2022”
NiMo
: no U-turn, only ‘next steps’…
Gibb: “devolution in its purest form”
Slide7Inconsistencies in policy language
This…
Freedom for frontline professionals
Local authorities don’t have enough schools to be financially sustainable
Schools need freedom and autonomy
Becomes this…
We need tightly managed MATs
We need lots of small MATs
Schools should teach E-
Bacc
, teach synthetic phonics, follow national food standards, advertise 6
th
form options, promote national citizen service
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Slide8Ultimate goals (relating to academies)
DfE
to ensure sufficient supply of good academy sponsors – unclear how
LA roles redefined:Ensure all children have a school place, pupil needs met, parents’ advocateStep back from maintaining schools and school improvementMATs to take a prominent role in organisation of the system
MAT performance will inform their growth or shrinkage (MAT performance tables)TSAs will perform increased improvement delivery functionRSCs will create support plans for underperforming schools (where none exists)
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Slide9How far are we from the academisation goal?
Further away than
DfE
hoped…60% of secondary schools are academies (<50% in NE) – but only 15% of primary schools are 5% of MATs have more than 10 schools; most are much smaller
Teaching Schools is not a well-developed resource (e,g, Sunderland has a Teaching School for every 1,000 pupils, but Middlesbrough has one for every 4,000 pupils)
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Slide10How will the Government increase the number of academies?
Sponsored academies programme , including those who are ‘coasting’ (based on Progress 8)
New schools are (almost always) academies
Forced academisation for all schools in ‘underperforming’ or ‘financially unviable’ local authorities (definitions pending)
?Underperforming?: A local authority is unviable if less than half of pupils in the area attend local authority maintained schools
?Underperforming? A local authority is ‘under-performing’ if the performance of its maintained schools at either key stage 2 or key stage 4 is below the (current) national average for state-funded mainstream schools.
Source: Centre Forum, 2016
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Slide11Things to consider
Government has raised concerns about local authority size being a significant factor in their not being viable.
What concern is there over the viability of MATs?
Whitepaper suggests 10-15 academies in a MAT leads to benefits of scale…Average MAT size is c. 4 (3.7)
Currently, there are 973 MATs. More needed, but what about speed of growth?RSC capacity: 1 RSC + 2 Deputies (19 new Deputy posts announced)
Major consideration: how will all this impact teaching and learning?
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Slide12If you are NOT already an academy…
Slide13If you are already an academy…
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