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Academies 2: the new batch - the changing nature of academy schools in England

Eyles, Andrew, Machin, Stephen and Silva, Olmo (2018) Academies 2: the new batch - the changing nature of academy schools in England. Fiscal Studies, 39 (1). pp. 121-158. ISSN 0143-5671

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Identification Number: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2017.12146

Abstract

The English education system has undergone large-scale restructuring through the introduction of academy schools. The most salient feature of these schools is that, despite remaining part of the state sector, they operate with more autonomy than the predecessors they replaced. Two distinct time periods of academy school introduction have taken place, under the auspices of different governments. The first batch was initiated in the 2002/03 school year by the Labour government of the time, and was a school improvement programme directly aimed at turning around badly performing schools. The second batch involved a mass academisation process following the change of government in May 2010 and the Academies Act of that year, which resulted in increased heterogeneity of new academies. This paper compares the two batches of introduction with the aim of getting a better understanding of their similarities and differences, and their importance for education policy. To do so, we study what types of schools were more likely to change to academy status in the two programmes, and the impact of this change on the quality of new pupil enrolments into the new types of school. Whilst we do point out some similarities, these are the exception rather than the norm. For the most part, our analysis reveals a number of marked dissimilarities between the two programmes, in terms of both the characteristics of schools that become academies and the changes in pupil intakes that occurred post-conversion.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28...
Additional Information: © 2017 The Authors © CC BY 4.0
Divisions: Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
JEL classification: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I20 - General
I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I21 - Analysis of Education
I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I28 - Government Policy
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2017 14:39
Last Modified: 21 Sep 2024 07:45
Projects: ES/M010341/1
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/79988

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