A case study describing the formation by a further education college of a multi-academy trust and the impacts on attainment profiles of learners at the academies.
The project emerged from the college receiving a local authority request for them to sponsor an academy to improve secondary school attainment rates. The paper explores the legal and organisational issues, the benefits and costs to each organisation and the structures, resources and processes thought necessary to make the endeavour a success.
The report describes the processes in selecting forms of organisation, including establishing a separate multi-academy trust. It outlines the use of College expertise at executive and governance level. Two academies showed improvements in learner outcomes (e.g.an increase of 17% in A* - C grades at GCSE including Maths and English, and an 11% increase in A - C GCSE grades). The college partnership work was recognised by Ofsted as outstanding. Data was gathered from document analysis.
Emerging Governance Models