ATL leader Mary Bousted tells conference forced academisation will not boost educational standards Nicky Morgan’s plans to force all schools in England to become academies is an attempt to turn education into a trade and raze the public service ethos of teachers,according to the head of one of Britain’s teaching unions.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, and said the changes set out in the governments education white paper,which would lead to 17000 maintained schools being taken over by multi-academy trusts, contained a “big whopper – that the forced academisation of all schools will improve educational standards”.
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Source: theguardian.com