I know NASUWT has voiced concerns
about the academies programme right from the outset but let's be clear that this is about creating a system that is school - led; one that puts trust in you — the professionals inside the system, giving you the freedom from government to do your jobs as you see fit, based on the evidence of what you know works.
This has been the source of much contention
about the academies programme and it is quite odd.
Mrs Morgan's speech was met with cries of «rubbish» as she talked
about the academies programme and testing.
Not exact matches
Questions were asked
about why it took the government so long to impose the bar on creationism, given concerns
about it being taught were raised as soon as the
academies programme was introduced.
From my point of view the main embarrassment has been and continues to be Liberal Democrat support for Osborne's economic policies: others may be concerned
about other issues (support for the restructuring of the NHS, or the creation of «free» schools and extension of the
academy programme, for example).
2.57 pm: My colleague Paul Owen has just been to a fringe meeting where David Laws was explaining his worries
about the coalition's expansion of the
academies programme and introduction of free schools.
But the whole
academies programme is
about having a profession - led system, so that the profession is in charge and not local authority officials.
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Schools do indeed change Ofsted categories and it might be as a result of factors completely outside the control of the operator, be it LA or
academy trust — however you only have to look at the trove of SchoolsWeek stories
about how an
academy has dropped a grade or two to see all the comments
about how this shows the
academy programme is to blame.
Proposed budget cuts to councils in England have doubled to
about # 1bn after the government underestimated the growth of its
academies programme.
Local authorities are made up of human beings who react in a human way to being told that they are not good enough — which is effectively what the
Academies programme is all
about.
«The Department for Education needs to be far more open
about the implementation of the
academies programme: it has much to gain from transparency,» the MPs conclude.
Given the impetus of the
academies programme to bring
about rapid improvement, it is of great concern that we are not seeing this in these seven MATs [multi-academy trusts] and that, in some cases, we have even seen decline.»
Janet Downs, co-founder of campaign group the Local Schools Network, said: «The education select committee has previously said the DfE needs to be far more open
about the implementation of the
academies programme.
Concerns of potential conflicts of interests have been raised
about individuals contracted to work as advisers in the government's
academies and free schools
programme in England.
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