Two Cheers For Academies

When the idea of Academies was first mooted, my first thought was that we’ve been here before. Twenty years ago we had the Grant-Maintained Schools, which had control over their own lives to a large extent. The same sort of issues will be faced by Academies as was faced by GM schools (whether they realised it or not). However, it seems to me that

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Is Freedom Always a Good Thing?

As you may know, there’s a bit of a revolution going on in the UK as far as education is concerned. Schools can apply to become

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