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Academy leadership - the importance of academy context

Author: National College and PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Subject: Academies
Audience: Headteachers, Governors, Stakeholders and partners, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers, School business managers
Date of publication: May 2011   |   File format and size: PDF, 93 Kb

By examining the local context of academies, we can gain a better understanding of the particular implications of conversion for leaders in different school types.

This extract looks at what motivates schools to apply for academy status and the challenges they face. It also provides a summary of what schools need to do to convert. This is a chapter taken from the publication Acadamies: research into the leadership of sponsored and converting academies