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Business-Managed Education

Academy Specialities

The table below shows that academies opened by 2006 mainly specialised in business/enterprise (50 percent of them), sport or ICT (information and communications technology) and their sponsors tend to be either religious organizations, businesses, businessmen or foundations. Even when there were over 200 In 2010, some 40 percent specialised in business or enterprise (see Current Projects).

Academy	Specialism	Sponsor
Business Academy, Bexley	Business and enterprise	Sir David Garrard, Chair Garrard Education Trust
Greig City Academy, Haringey	ICT	The Greig Trust and the Church of England
Unity City Academy, East Middlesbrough	ICT	Amey plc
Capital City Academy, Brent	Sports	Sir Frank Lowe
City Academy, Bristol	Sports	J. Laycock, Bristol Football clubUni. of the West of England, Bristol Business West
West London Academy, Ealing	Sports and enterprise	Alec Reed, founder and chair of Reed Executive plc
Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham	ICT
City of London Academy, Southwark	Business and enterprise	Corporation of London
Academy of Peckham, Southwark	Business and performing arts	Lord Harris of Peckham
Walsall City Academy	Technology	The Mercers’ Company, Thomas Telford Online
London Academy, Barnet	Business, enterprise and technology	Peter Shalson, Chari of SCI Ltd (venture capital)
Mossbourne Community Academy, Hackney	Technology	Clive Bourne, president of Seabourne Group plc
Stockley Academy, Hillingdon	Science and technology	Barry Townsley, Insinger Townsely (stockbrokers) + others
Lambeth Academy,Lambeth	Business, enterprise and language	United Learning Trust (The Church Schools Company)
Northampton Academy, Northampton	Sports and business and enterprise	United Learning Trust (The Church Schools Company)
Manchester Academy, Manchester	Business and enterprise	United Learning Trust, Manchester Science Park
Salford City Academy, Salford	Sport with business and enterprise	United Learning Trust,Manchester Diocese
Trinity Academy, Doncaster	Business and enterprise	Sir Peter Vardy (Emmanuel Schools’ Foundation)
Kings Academy, Middlesbrough	Business and enterprise	Emmanuel Schools Foundation
St Paul’s Academy,Greenwich	Sports and enterprise	Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark
Marlowe Academy, Kent	Business and performing arts	Roger De HaanKent County CouncilPfizer
Harefield Academy, Hillingdon	Sport, health and wellbeing	Four businessmen
Habersdashers Aske’s Knights Academy, Lewisham	Sport, ICT	Haberdashers Livery Company
Dixons City Academy, Bradford	Performing arts, Product design
Academy of St. Francis Assisi, Liverpool	Environment	Anglican Diocese of LiverpoolRoman Catholic Diocese of Liverpool
Macmillan Academy, West Middlesbrough	Science and PE and Outdoor Education

If you have any examples or updates you would like to contribute please email them to me and I will add them here. Please give references for where you sourced the information.

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© 2018 Sharon Beder
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