EdisonLearning has been awarded a place on the Department for Education’s (DfE) Academies and Free Schools Project Management and Educational Services Framework – one of few to be placed on both frameworks.
The purpose of the new framework is to ensure that academy sponsors and proposers of ‘Free Schools’ have access to specialist advice and support to guide them through the process of opening a new school.
The range of tasks to be completed in this process is remarkably broad and diverse, balancing complex legal, financial and capital demands alongside the educational principles and goals of the sponsoring group with an aim of raising standards and opportunities for all students. EdisonLearning is one of a very small group of organisations, approved by DfE, with the experience and expertise to fulfil this demanding brief and ensure that sponsors successfully realise their distinctive vision for a great school.
EdisonLearning’s Academies and Free Schools Programme Manager, Scott Walker, commented:
“EdisonLearning has earned an outstanding reputation for its work in supporting the creation of Academies and has built a great team of project managers and education advisers with the skills and experience to deliver the most demanding academy and free school projects. Our starting point for any project is the vision of the sponsoring group – that drives everything, and it is great that we will be able to offer a truly integrated and coherent solution under this new framework.”
EdisonLearning’s work in the UK is enhanced by the company’s experience in the USA as a pioneer in supporting the formation of more than 100 Charter Schools – one of the key influences behind the formation of Free Schools - including most recently a group of entirely online ‘Virtual Charter Schools’.
EdisonLearning’s Director, Tim Nash said:
“We are delighted to have earned a place on the new framework and look forward to making a telling contribution in the coming years to ensure that the ambitions and aspirations of sponsors and proposers are translated into the reality of strong and successful schools. Every child gets just one opportunity of a great education, and it is our job to ensure that any new academy or school we work with delivers exactly that.”
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Notes to editors:
The Academies and Free Schools Project Management and Educational Services Framework
The Framework has been set up by the department to ensure that academy sponsors, and proposers of Free Schools, University Technical Colleges and Studio Schools have access to high calibre support. In general this involves providing core project management services in addition to providing educational challenge and advice.
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