Another Tory donor, Theodore Agnew, who set up a group of academies in Norfolk, was believed to have been favoured by Mr Gove.
Such schools "lack the capacity" to take on the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by branching out as academies on their own, and thus would need either to remain with the local authority or to join a sponsored group of academies.
The best sides in the Champions League have tended to contain a core group of academy or homegrown players who have progressed together.
Details will be hammered out by a working group of academy presidents or their equivalents from France, India, Germany, and Brazil, says biochemist Bruce Alberts, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The Independent suggested Mr Gove's preferred candidate for the role was Theodore Agnew, the head of The Inspiration Trust - which runs a group of academy schools in Norfolk - and a Conservative donor.
This draft report, obtained by the BBC's Newsnight, is from the Education Funding Agency which can investigate providers running groups of academies.
At the moment, the European academies' networks have limited resources, Johannsen says, but the funding expected from the commission as part of the SAM for ALLEA and four other groups of academies is already helping the academies to work together more closely.
Hunt said that academy chains – groups of academy schools controlled and administered by a single corporate body – should be open to inspection by Ofsted, in the same way that local authority education departments are.
Ofsted should be given new powers to inspect groups of academy schools run by the same organisation, Lib Dem minister David Laws has said.
Gove, the justice secretary, has asked Sally Coates, a director of a group of 16 academy schools and seven independent schools, to carry out the review into how the quality and methods of prison teaching can be improved, including in classrooms and workshops.
In "Rescue Me," Leary plays Tommy Gavin, a fireman who's congenitally spoiling for a fight; in the pilot, he announces that if a shrink comes to his firehouse to try to get the men to talk about their feelings, "I'm gonna kick his ass," and he tells a group of new academy graduates that "my balls are bigger than two of your heads duct-taped together".
