I suspect that Wilshaw heard himself talking nonsense, so he quickly played his trump card: what these failing academies need he said, is more "monitoring".
Supporters of charters and academies need to focus on how to get a regulatory system that deals promptly with failure and allows successful organisations to expand".
Academies need not hire staff registered with the General Teaching Council, as other state schools do, and they can opt out of national pay agreements.The government wants to see 200 city academies in operation by 2010, up from 27 at present.
Margaret Hodge, the chair of the public accounts committee which will question education officials about the figures, said the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which oversees the finances of academies, needed to get a grip of these "dubious" relationships.
Carragher also suggested that Premier League academies need to focus on English talent.
At the same time, Doležal adds, "the academies need to accept that they are not unique and privileged players on the field anymore, even in basic research".
Backers say moves of that sort reflect Ms. Hudson's conviction that the academy needs new faces, many from underrepresented ethnic or social groups.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, said the academy needs "to do more, and better and more quickly" following calls for an outright boycott of the ceremony over the absence of non-white acting nominees.
But with membership stagnant and the NYAS changing course, executive officer Rodney Nichols said in a 1 June statement, "the board agreed that the academy needs to refocus its energy and budget on its primary mission, which cannot include being publisher of a general science magazine".
I also think that the academy needs to be more engaged in a grass roots way.
