Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of secondary schools are now academies.
Answered by Baroness Berridge
In May 2020, there are 2,675 secondary academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs), out of a total of 3,453 state-funded secondary schools. This is 77% of all secondary schools. Please note that the number of secondary schools includes middle deemed secondary schools, 16+ schools, all through schools and secondary schools.
Academy trusts may comprise of either one phase of education, or multiple phases of education. The table below provides the number of academies within academy trusts that have at least one secondary academy. The number of academies within these trusts also includes primary, special and alternative provision (AP) academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs.
Table 1: Number of academy trusts, by size of academy trust, and number of academies within those trusts
Number of academies in a trust | Number of academy trusts with one or more secondary academy | Number of primary, secondary, special and AP academies within these trusts |
1 | 786 | 786 |
2 | 138 | 276 |
3 | 106 | 318 |
4 | 77 | 308 |
5 | 72 | 360 |
More than 5 | 277 | 3574 |
Total | 1456 | 5622 |
Source: Get information about schools, taken from 1 May 2020.
Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many secondary academy trusts comprise: (1) single academies, (2) two academies, (3) three academies, (4) four academies, and (5) five academies.
Answered by Baroness Berridge
In May 2020, there are 2,675 secondary academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs), out of a total of 3,453 state-funded secondary schools. This is 77% of all secondary schools. Please note that the number of secondary schools includes middle deemed secondary schools, 16+ schools, all through schools and secondary schools.
Academy trusts may comprise of either one phase of education, or multiple phases of education. The table below provides the number of academies within academy trusts that have at least one secondary academy. The number of academies within these trusts also includes primary, special and alternative provision (AP) academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs.
Table 1: Number of academy trusts, by size of academy trust, and number of academies within those trusts
Number of academies in a trust | Number of academy trusts with one or more secondary academy | Number of primary, secondary, special and AP academies within these trusts |
1 | 786 | 786 |
2 | 138 | 276 |
3 | 106 | 318 |
4 | 77 | 308 |
5 | 72 | 360 |
More than 5 | 277 | 3574 |
Total | 1456 | 5622 |
Source: Get information about schools, taken from 1 May 2020.
Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 3 April (HL14848), whether they will provide in the text of their response to this question a list of the members of (1) the Russell Group, (2) Million+, and (3) University Alliance.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
Information regarding a list of members of the Russell Group, Million+ and University Alliance is not held centrally. However, information from the members’ websites is reflected in the following table:
1) Russell Group Membership | 2) Million+ | 3) University Alliance |
Birmingham University | Abertay University | UWE Bristol |
University of Bristol | Anglia Ruskin | University of Greenwich |
University of Cambridge | Bath Spa University | University of Central Lancashire |
Cardiff University | University of Bedfordshire | University of Brighton |
Durham University | University of Bolton | The Open University |
University of Edinburgh | Canterbury Christ Church University | Teesside University |
University of Exeter | University of Cumbria | University of South Wales |
University of Glasgow | University of East London | University of Salford |
Imperial College London | Edinburgh Napier University | University of Portsmouth |
King's College London | Glasgow Caledonian University | Oxford Brookes University |
University of Leeds | University of the Highlands and Islands | Nottingham Trent University |
University of Liverpool | Leeds Trinity University | Kingston University |
London School of Economics | London Metropolitan University | University of Hertfordshire |
University of Manchester | London South Bank | Coventry University |
Newcastle University | Middlesex University |
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University of Nottingham | Southampton Solent University |
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University of Oxford | University of Sunderland |
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Queen Mary University of London | University of West London |
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Queen's University Belfast | University of the West of Scotland |
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University of Sheffield | University of Staffordshire |
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University of Southampton | University of Wolverhampton |
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University College London |
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University of Warwick |
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University of York |
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Notes
Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 7 March (HL Deb, col 717), whether they will set out the bodies representing different groups of universities with which they have dealings; and whether they will indicate in each case the membership of the group.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
The Department for Education (DfE) deals with numerous stakeholders in the higher education (HE) sector. The bodies representing HE providers are set out below.
Universities UK is a membership body that includes the vice chancellors of most UK universities. Its membership can be found at: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/about/Pages/member-institutions.aspx;
GuildHE represents a number of smaller and specialist HE providers. Its membership can be found at: https://guildhe.ac.uk/our-members/; and
Independent HE (formerly Study UK) is a UK membership organisation and national representative body for independent providers of HE (alternative providers) and professional training and pathway providers. Its membership can be found at: http://independenthe.com/members.
The DfE also deal with the following self-organised mission groups:
The Russell Group is an association of 24 long-established universities. Its membership can be found at: https://russellgroup.ac.uk/about/our-universities/;
Million+ describes itself as a university think-tank, whose members are mainly more recently established universities. Its membership can be found at: http://www.millionplus.ac.uk/who-we-are/members; and
University Alliance represents a number of post92 universities. Its membership can be found at: https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/alliance-universities/.