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8 Feb 2012
Ofsted give damning report into Birkdale High School Academy

“This is an extremely worrying report for everybody concerned with Birkdale High, parents, pupils and staff. Even more worrying because it is without precedent, this is the first of Michael Goves Academy convertor schools to fail in the North West.”

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8 Feb 2012
Academy chains: No case for expansion

Of the 249 schools listed in the DfE data as ‘sponsor-led’ academies, almost a third are run by chains. So how are the chains performing?

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6 Feb 2012
Academy figures for February 2012

55% of secondaries are not academies – 1735
15,000 primary schools remain as community schools – 96%

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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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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...
  • Janet says: B
  • 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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