The Challenge...

• Britain requires a well educated and highly skilled work force to meet the challenges of the 21st Century globalised world.
   

• Edutrust aims to establish academies as Centres of Excellence to enhance the life chances of young people.
   

• Academies are new forms of inclusive secondary schools designed to meet the needs of students in the 21st Century. The academies programme is a major component of the government’s education reform agenda that encourages sponsors from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors to establish all-ability schools. Each Academy will have a Board of Governors with local stakeholder representation.
   

• Edutrust has a new approach to academies, working in genuine collaboration with all partners to raise educational standards and the aspirations of young people through creative opportunities and innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
   

• Edutrust’s academies are also centres for their communities, forming a focus for activities which relate to family needs and providing lifelong learning opportunities for all.
   

• Diversity, tolerance and equality will be at the core of every activity in the academies in which young people of all races, faiths and cultures will learn and play together, constituting a cohesive society of multicultural Britain.
   

• Edutrust will meet the challenge through partnerships with the government, local authorities, education institutions, corporate sector, trusts, foundations, communities, parents and young people.