The phrase "academy sector" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the part of the education system that includes academic institutions, such as schools, colleges, and universities.
Example: "The academy sector plays a crucial role in shaping the future of education and research."
Alternatives: "educational sector" or "academic field".
Morse said: "I recognise the importance of not placing unnecessary additional burdens on the academy sector.
She said the academy sector has been naive about money, failing to take proper account of impending cuts.
The NAO also found that the department spent £166m more than authorised by parliament, mainly because of an underestimate of increased pension costs in the academy sector.
The public now have real clarity on the size and scale of the academy sector which is so critically important to the delivery of our educational goals".
"It has demonstrated, however, key and continuing risks to the department's ability to exercise strategic financial management of the academy sector and to the sustainability of the department's current approach".
"Schools requiring improvement will be compulsorily transferred to the academies sector.
In his first keynote speech on education during the current "phoney" election period, Mr Cameron indicated that up to 3,500 schools that rated as "requiring improvement" or "inadequate" by Ofsted would be transferred to the academies sector.
Academies unlocked private sector funding.
Michael Gove, in leaked minutes from his department, has begun to parrot suggestions that a more "radical route is towards fundamentally shifting the basis of our relationship with academies through reclassifying academies to the private sector".
It adds: "The second, more radical, route is towards fundamentally shifting the basis of our relationship with academies through reclassifying academies to the private sector, possibly coupled with a change in the legal framework such as adopting a licensing or FE-like statutory corporation approach".
The shallow pretence that academies could unlock private sector money would be abandoned, and we would find out what academies were really for; which was, quite simply, a means of privatising schools.
