So what exactly is an academy?

摘要

As an academy, rather than a Local Education Authority (LEA) school, Evelyn Grace has a high degree of autonomy to pursue its key objectives and receives funding from the Department for Education (DfE) and a sponsor who provides 10 per cent of this, up to a limit of ￡2 million. Academies are governed by education trusts, which brief design teams and review their proposals, although these must also be approved by the DfE at each stage of the project. This process involves reference to capital cost models, which govern net, gross and non-net areas and their inter-relationship, which may be modified by mitigating factors, known as 'abnormals'.