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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 02:17 AM
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10. Schools are being invited to become academies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10159448.stm

Education Secretary Michael Gove is writing to all primary and secondary schools in England inviting them to become academies.

Schools which are rated as outstanding by inspectors can be fast-tracked into academy status for the autumn. The proposals could mean thousands of schools leaving local authority control.

The NASUWT teachers' union claimed the policy would "disenfranchise democratically-elected local councils".

The Academies Bill, to be presented to Parliament later, allows for a rapid increase in schools operating outside the planning and organisation of local authorities.
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  -Questions on education policy for the new Con-Lib Dems LeftishBrit  May-18-10 01:26 PM   #0 
  - The most common complaint I've heard from teachers (and I know quite a few) is  Hopeless Romantic   May-18-10 01:56 PM   #1 
  - I hear the same...  LeftishBrit   May-18-10 02:02 PM   #2 
     - Education is one of the "protected budgets".  TheBigotBasher   May-18-10 03:24 PM   #3 
     - Very well indeed. Especially the time he visited a primary school ....  non sociopath skin   May-18-10 03:45 PM   #4 
        - Promoted to secondary school?  tjwmason   May-19-10 03:07 AM   #7 
        - Oops.  Nihil   May-19-10 04:28 AM   #8 
        - Wow, just wow n/t  Anarcho-Socialist   May-26-10 06:08 AM   #13 
  - Their gift to students  Jeneral2885   May-18-10 05:36 PM   #5 
  - Labours?  TheBigotBasher   May-18-10 05:57 PM   #6 
  - Aside from the change for grammar schools to comprehensive  dipsydoodle   May-19-10 05:45 AM   #9 
  - Schools are being invited to become academies  T_i_B   May-26-10 02:17 AM   #10 
  - The 'opt-out' policy of the 1980s under a new name  LeftishBrit   May-26-10 02:32 AM   #11 
  - I imagine another has gone out to the private sector Education Companies ...  non sociopath skin   May-26-10 04:46 AM   #12 
  - Well, I guess we should give Gove some kudos for being honest ....  non sociopath skin   May-31-10 02:36 PM   #16 
  - I've been watching this with increasing horror -  enlightenment   May-27-10 02:13 AM   #15 
  - Interesting to see how the government will respond if hundreds of teachers cooperatives  fedsron2us   May-26-10 05:50 PM   #14 
  - Soccer and study? Premier League aims to score big with 'free schools' plan  T_i_B   Aug-04-10 02:29 AM   #17 
     - See also  non sociopath skin   Aug-04-10 04:09 AM   #18 
     - Panem et circenses  Nihil   Aug-04-10 05:22 AM   #19 
 

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