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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In this timely and relevant book, Francis Beckett exposes the flaws inherent in the Government's City Academies programme. Beckett begins by describing how academies are little more than City Technology Colleges under a different name, and ends with his own manifesto for the future of state education. In between, Beckett describes how academies have been imposed upon unwilling communities, often involving the closure of popular and successful schools. Beckett also draws the reader's attention to badly designed buildings, with the case of a special needs school that was incorporated into an academy being particularly sad. He looks at the sponsors who have become involved in the academies programme, examining their motives and exposing how some have avoided their expected financial contributions while retaining almost complete control of their sponsored schools. All in all, this is a book that must be read by anyone who is concerned with the future of Britain's schools. Highly recommended.
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Brilliant survey of a policy that Labour opposed when in opposition, then promoted when in office
5 Oct 2007
Format:Hardcover
In this brilliant book, journalist Francis Beckett exposes Labour's destructive `city academies' programme.
In the 1980s, Thatcher introduced City Technology Colleges, which opted out of local authority control and had local management and local pay. This caused great inequality and injustice in educational provision. Avon County Council, for example, spent £8 million on 900 pupils at Kingswood in Bristol, leaving just £4.5 million for the county's other 150,000 children.
Labour, when in opposition, denounced this policy, then when in office promoted it. If a local council opposes an academy scheme, Labour deprives it of any money for education. So however the local people vote, for or against academies, they get academies.
The government is ending all democratic control of schools by elected local government. The academies are accountable only to the sponsor. All schools are to be `independent', destroying our education service.
There are 46 academies now, and the government hopes for 200 by 2011 and 400 later. Those great charities, the `public' schools, are starting to sponsor them. Half of these academies are `faith schools' -divisive and sectarian. Half specialise in `enterprise'. In one, every Friday is given over to lessons in `enterprise'.
The government is spending £5 billion on its academies programme. It puts an average £25 million into each city academy, the average sponsor just £1 million. In Lewisham, a CTC was turned into a city academy. The Haberdashers' Livery Company put in less than £300,000; the taxpayer paid the rest - £37.7 million. Guess who gets the control.
The government tells us that academies are about putting private money into public education, but really, as in the NHS, public money is going, not into a public service, but through it, into private companies. Sponsor your local capitalist!
In the 1980s, Thatcher introduced City Technology Colleges, which opted out of local authority control and had local management and local pay. This caused great inequality and injustice in educational provision. Avon County Council, for example, spent £8 million on 900 pupils at Kingswood in Bristol, leaving just £4.5 million for the county's other 150,000 children.
Labour, when in opposition, denounced this policy, then when in office promoted it. If a local council opposes an academy scheme, Labour deprives it of any money for education. So however the local people vote, for or against academies, they get academies.
The government is ending all democratic control of schools by elected local government. The academies are accountable only to the sponsor. All schools are to be `independent', destroying our education service.
There are 46 academies now, and the government hopes for 200 by 2011 and 400 later. Those great charities, the `public' schools, are starting to sponsor them. Half of these academies are `faith schools' -divisive and sectarian. Half specialise in `enterprise'. In one, every Friday is given over to lessons in `enterprise'.
The government is spending £5 billion on its academies programme. It puts an average £25 million into each city academy, the average sponsor just £1 million. In Lewisham, a CTC was turned into a city academy. The Haberdashers' Livery Company put in less than £300,000; the taxpayer paid the rest - £37.7 million. Guess who gets the control.
The government tells us that academies are about putting private money into public education, but really, as in the NHS, public money is going, not into a public service, but through it, into private companies. Sponsor your local capitalist!
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Brilliant survey of a policy that Labour opposed when in opposition, then promoted when in office
5 Oct 2007
Format:Hardcover
In this brilliant book, journalist Francis Beckett exposes Labour's destructive `city academies' programme.
In the 1980s, Thatcher introduced City Technology Colleges, which opted out of local authority control and had local management and local pay. This caused great inequality and injustice in educational provision. Avon County Council, for example, spent £8 million on 900 pupils at Kingswood in Bristol, leaving just £4.5 million for the county's other 150,000 children.
Labour, when in opposition, denounced this policy, then when in office promoted it. If a local council opposes an academy scheme, Labour deprives it of any money for education. So however the local people vote, for or against academies, they get academies.
The government is ending all democratic control of schools by elected local government. The academies are accountable only to the sponsor. All schools are to be `independent', destroying our education service.
There are 46 academies now, and the government hopes for 200 by 2011 and 400 later. Those great charities, the `public' schools, are starting to sponsor them. Half of these academies are `faith schools' -divisive and sectarian. Half specialise in `enterprise'. In one, every Friday is given over to lessons in `enterprise'.
The government is spending £5 billion on its academies programme. It puts an average £25 million into each city academy, the average sponsor just £1 million. In Lewisham, a CTC was turned into a city academy. The Haberdashers' Livery Company put in less than £300,000; the taxpayer paid the rest - £37.7 million. Guess who gets the control.
The government tells us that academies are about putting private money into public education, but really, as in the NHS, public money is going, not into a public service, but through it, into private companies. Sponsor your local capitalist!
In the 1980s, Thatcher introduced City Technology Colleges, which opted out of local authority control and had local management and local pay. This caused great inequality and injustice in educational provision. Avon County Council, for example, spent £8 million on 900 pupils at Kingswood in Bristol, leaving just £4.5 million for the county's other 150,000 children.
Labour, when in opposition, denounced this policy, then when in office promoted it. If a local council opposes an academy scheme, Labour deprives it of any money for education. So however the local people vote, for or against academies, they get academies.
The government is ending all democratic control of schools by elected local government. The academies are accountable only to the sponsor. All schools are to be `independent', destroying our education service.
There are 46 academies now, and the government hopes for 200 by 2011 and 400 later. Those great charities, the `public' schools, are starting to sponsor them. Half of these academies are `faith schools' -divisive and sectarian. Half specialise in `enterprise'. In one, every Friday is given over to lessons in `enterprise'.
The government is spending £5 billion on its academies programme. It puts an average £25 million into each city academy, the average sponsor just £1 million. In Lewisham, a CTC was turned into a city academy. The Haberdashers' Livery Company put in less than £300,000; the taxpayer paid the rest - £37.7 million. Guess who gets the control.
The government tells us that academies are about putting private money into public education, but really, as in the NHS, public money is going, not into a public service, but through it, into private companies. Sponsor your local capitalist!
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