Former education secretary baffled by proposals to reform school approachFormer education secretary David Blunkett has warned that government plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 are doomed to fail and could turn into a fiasco similar to Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms.
Writing in the Observer,Blunkett, who was the first to develop plans for academy schools under the Labour government in 2000, and accuses Tory ministers of seeking “permanent revolution” instead of biological change,in a way that could discredit the entire academies programme.
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Source: theguardian.com