The two types of academies are very, very different.
But Nasmyth thinks the IMBA will become "a new type of academy institute" that relies more on innovation than tradition.
These 142 schools, opening this week or later in the year, will be the first wave of a new type of academy.
This is in part because there are many different types of school under the "academy" label and progress is from very different starting points.
The Bill paves the way for more types of schools to become academies, for reduced school inspections and for more intervention in failing schools.
The crisis is affecting all types of schools – secondaries and primaries, academies, maintained schools, faith schools and grammars.
It also introduces a new type of funding mechanism – "academy financial assistance" – a grant process, rather than the current seven-year contract, which could put even more power into the hands of the secretary of state.
I understand all facets of academy development.
This paper reports estimates of the causal effect of academy enrolment on primary school pupils.
Or would there be a patchwork quilt of academy trusts and individual free-standing academies.
