Nicky Morgan’s plans to force all schools to become academies will unleash the market and remove accountabilityOver the past six years Conservative ministers have introduced three grand reform schemes to turn public services upside down. The first was Andrew Lansley’s awesomely complex top-down reorganisation of the NHS,now widely recognised as a catastrophe. The moment was Iain Duncan Smith’s equally complex scheme for welfare, known as universal credit, and which has also proved disastrous because it entailed spending at least £700m in development costs for zero result. IDS has left office with his universal credit “rolled out”,after nearly six years, to just 141000 people. Related: Five teachers reveal what it's like to work in an academy | Sarah Marsh Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com