How will academies make a difference to pupil achievement?
The PricewaterhouseCooper 4th annual report on academies suggests that the unique combination of their independent status, governance arrangements, sponsorship, leadership models, buildings and the specialisms adopted is a key contributor of their success: ‘Whilst other schools have access to some of these enablers, the unique feature for academies is, in a sense, that they have the capacity to utilise them all.’