The NAHT is the latest teaching union to express dismay at the government's education white paper published last month, which would see schools currently maintained by local authorities transferred to become academies by 2022, with many taken over by a multi-academy trust. (theguardian.com)
Alongside the controversial Department of Education white paper proposal to encourage all schools to join multi-academy trusts and replace parent governors with professionals, the two new schools — called Livingstone Academies — are typical of the future direction of school governance: more private influence, and less democratic community engagement. (theconversation.com)
As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage. (politics.co.uk)