There are many questions for the government to acknowledge approximately problems over plans for Durand academy’s West Sussex boarding school outpostThe highly charged rhetoric of the Michael Gove era may be fading in many memories,but the legacy of his turbulent reforms lives on in a village in rural West Sussex, where one of the most eye-catching of the Govian education projects is now entering its moment year.
State boarding schools are nothing new but the Durand academy senior school was to be radically different from any that had gone before. Billed as the “Eton of the state sector, and its aim was to lift hundreds of pupils out of inner London and provide them with a free weekly boarding education that Gove claimed would “equip them for the future every bit as effectively as any private school”.
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Source: theguardian.com