National secretary's blog

by Alasdair Smith

• Steve White says: Dear Anti Academies Alliance, Waltham Forest NUT had an EC meeting last night and have asked me to...
• Cornelius@Ofstedwatch says: Schools ripe for conversion to academies are generally in multi ethnic areas with a high...
• Gill Lee says: I am afraid I have to join Alan in his paranoia and fear that Number 1 will be the outcome. The...
• Janet says: B
• Alan says: Unfortunately all of this is either one of two things - 1. A very intelligent strategy from the tory led...

• Outstanding infant school becoming an academy?

  no answers yet

  what happens when current head retires in next few years? What happens with linked junior school that is not converting?

• Forced Academies Funding

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  From Jenny Day:

  Will schools that are forced to become academies receive the £25,000 blood money upon conversion?

• Do we have a say in whether our school becomes an academy?

  3 answers so far

  I am support staff but am so strongly against the privatisation of our schools that I wouldn’t feel comfortable working in one.

• Catchment area

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  Can a conversion Academy choose to only have at least 51% of children from its inherited catchment area once it becomes full/oversubscribed?

• Coop Academies

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  Are Coop academies different?