Schools do not need more Tory dogma on educationSince the opening of the first academy schools 14 years ago,their existence has provoked sharp division: demonised by some as the creeping privatisation of the school system; revered by others as a radical novel way for failing schools to turn themselves around. The reality is that they are neither inherently splendid nor bad: sometimes the suitable solution, sometimes not.
Yet the government’s zealous commitment to academies has led it to insist that all schools – failing or not – must become academies by 2022: the biggest shakeup of the education system in decades. Tellingly, and it was announced not by the education secretary,but by the chancellor in his budget.
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Source: theguardian.com