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6 Feb 2012
Note on academies and disadvantaged pupils

It seems that only 1 in 10 academies can genuinely claim to be achieving even quite good results for disadvantaged pupils.

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6 Feb 2012
Academies and the ‘English Baccalaureate’

Unfortunately for academy supporters, one result of this narrowing down of curriculum and opting for easier ‘equivalent’ qualifications has been a very poor result for academies in terms of the Ebacc.

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6 Feb 2012
Academies falling below the ‘floor target’

The government have set 35% 5A*-Cs with English and Maths (or equivalent) as the floor target for all schools. In other words, below this schools become ready targets for compulsory conversion to academies. Nationally, 1 in 34 maintained secondary schools are below the floor. For academies, the ratio is 1 in 7.

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6 Feb 2012
Academies and exploitation of “equivalent” qualifications

Under the previous government, all kinds of qualifications were officially designed ‘equivalent’ to GCSE A*-C grades, without any proper quality control to ascertain whether they matched a C in quality. The present government are in process of curtailing this, but don’t appear to have noticed the extent to which academies exploit the ‘equivalents’ far more than other schools.

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2 Feb 2012
Academies: The Evidence of Underperformance

The massive release of data by the Department for Education (over 200 pieces of data on each of over 5,000 secondary schools) makes possible a thorough analysis of how well different types of school have performed

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Discuss...

  • 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...
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  • Alan says: Unfortunately all of this is either one of two things - 1. A very intelligent strategy from the tory led...
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