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The impact of academies on educational outcomes - the Education Policy Institute

Jon Andrews, Natalie Perera, Andrew Eyles, Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Olmo Silva


The expansion of the academies programme has been one of the biggest changes to the English education system in a generation. 3.4 million children are now taught in either a sponsored or a converter academy. Those children will have been educated in schools with different governance arrangements, potentially a different curriculum and different approaches to teaching practices, structures and qualifications.

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a paper examining the impact of academies on educational outcomes. The comprehensive report brings together EPI?s own analysis, along with research undertaken by the London School of Economics.


1 July 2017

This paper is published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI)

The impact of academies on educational outcomes - the Education Policy Institute

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This External report is part of the centre's Education programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: School performance: Institutional environment