The word 'academies' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a plural noun that refers to schools or institutions of higher learning. Example: Many prestigious academies offer courses in various fields such as music, art, and science.
He's pouring nearly all our money into his darling academies.
The schools becoming academies were far from random ("outstanding" institutions enjoyed special freedoms to convert; failing schools were sometimes forced), so the department proposed, and identified funds for, a systematic evaluation.
Analysis Teachers are some of the harshest critics of the coalition after Michael Gove's tenure as education secretary, which entailed a radical shakeup of the curriculum, expansion of academies and introduction of free schools.
This goes even further and signals an ideological break with the time of Tony Blair, who was the first architect of academies.
The administration's plan is for universities and community colleges to provide training, but to also rely on high-tech educational academies, some of which have entered into arrangements with cities to train workers in a matter of months and then help place them in jobs.
That leaves some tinkering, like the odd idea about children repeating year 6 in year 7, making the EBacc subjects compulsory, and the incremental expansion of academies and free schools.
In December 2010, the then education secretary, Michael Gove, appointed Agnew to be a non-executive board member at the DfE, chairing the department's academies board.
Truss is understood to be close to Rachel de Souza, and De Souza is believed to have sought the minister's support for a bid by one of her academies to lead a maths hub in her area, which would bring the trust extra funds.
Gove's ambition for all schools to become academies started the transfer of the nation's schools from local authority to ministerial supervision.
Too many former outstanding schools that converted into academies have gone into special measures and a disproportionate number of free schools have problems with standards or finance.
We need many more clubs, academies and scouts helping to feed into a system that recognises talent.
