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16 May 2012

NUT members at Kingsthorpe College,Northampton will be striking on Wednesday 23rd May against the proposal to transfer their employment to the Collaborative Academies Trust , the ‘non profit’ arm of Edison Learning.

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fat cats at the academies show
16 May 2012

Visitors to the Academies Show were greeted by 2 cigar touting Fat Cats inviting them to ‘roll up, roll up, profits from schools this way”.

16 May 2012

NUT members at Downhills school in Haringey are to strike on Tuesday 22nd May against their school being forced to become an academy.

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14 May 2012

About 50 people attended a public meeting on Thursday 10th May at Northfield Baptist Church to discuss the threat to local primary schools being forced into academy status.

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bolton muslim girls school lobby
11 May 2012

Over 300 school workers, parents, residents and students lobbied Governors arriving for a meeting at the Muslim Girls School in Bolton to discuss moving towards Academy status.

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Discuss...

  • Andrea Wilson says: Jane, The new Bolingbroke Academy has a very fair admissions procedure which was consulted on...
  • Stephen Cook says: I’ll try and get there on Wednesday.
  • Jane says: In her last post, Andrea is wrong on several counts. She is well aware of the campaign in Wandsworth to...
  • Musejs says: The poll on Free Schools mentioned above does NOT indicate that most parents are supportive of the...
  • Lucy Cooper says: I am reliably informed that at present there are 80 primary schools in Birmingham being forced into...

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