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Tag Archives: free schools
Are giant secondary schools the answer?
by Terry Wrigley The news that a shortage of school places has led to giant secondary schools provides further evidence of the chaos resulting from the Government’s failure to plan. No one can feign surprise at the growing population, but … Continue reading
Posted in Governance
Tagged comprehensive schools, disadvantage, free schools, local authority, PISA, politicians, Shanghai
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If academies are the answer…?
by Terry Wrigley It takes time to transform a secondary school, so let’s concentrate on academies which had been open at least five years by last June’s GCSE. In other words, long enough for the pupils taking GCSEs to have … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Governance
Tagged academies, free schools, local authority, local democracy, privatisation
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Sponsorship mess threatens children’s future
Academy sponsors were supposed to be the magic key to sort out struggling schools. This began with businessmen who supposedly knew more about education than teachers and local education authorities. There were few takers, and among them some dubious sponsors: … Continue reading
Posted in Governance
Tagged academies, free schools, inspection, local authority, local democracy, politicians, privatisation
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Education minister evasive about academy problems
The mounting evidence of serious problems with academies and free schools is clearly causing concern even behind the walls of the House of Commons. The Education Select Committee (a cross-party panel of MPs) reached some very critical conclusions. Drawing on … Continue reading
Free schools increase educational apartheid
Today the Guardian has a feature on two Blackburn free schools, Queens Elizabeth’s Grammar School and Tauheedul Islam Boys’ High School. Below we feature a comment on this article by Terry Wrigley, Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria and … Continue reading
Reclaiming Schools 