Every school should be sent a King James Bible to celebrate the 400th anniversary of publication; the Queen should have a yacht for her diamond jubilee; all schools should be called academies.
This is not part of the Building Schools for the Future programme, but is the result of different Labour policy – the creation of state-maintained but independently run schools called academies, whose construction costs would be partly sponsored by businesses and benefactors.
The day-to-day responsibility for running the schools lies with the headteachers or principals, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies, called academy trusts, and may be part of an academy chain.
Although the day-to-day running of the school remains with the head teacher or principal, they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.
For that reason, they were originally called "city academies".
Knowing of the buy-back rule, auction houses frequently call the academy to check on the status of Oscars offered to them.
A number of Conservative-supporting think-tank have called for academies to be allowed to make profit and ministers in the last government were reported to have drawn up plans for introducing the policy.
Originally called city academies, the Labour government dropped the word "city" to allow for academies in struggling rural areas as well as inner cities. Michael Gove, the new education secretary, hopes academies become "the norm" and is urging all schools in the country to apply for academy status, including primaries for the first time.
The film documents an initiative in India and Africa called "Wikipedia Academies".
Beginning August 5, a group which calls itself Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) is organizing what they call an "academy" to "train young people (as well as older pro-family advocates) how to answer 'gay' activist misinformation and fight the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda".
