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26 Mar 2013
School improvement held back by the ‘academy solution’

Ofsted inspectors are raising concerns that forcing schools to become academies is actually undermining their efforts to improve.
Inspectors working for Ofsted have raised concerns that …

10 Feb 2013
Protest at Gladstone Park School

Parents, pupils and staff protest outside Gladstone Park School in Brent. (Video)

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.”

26 Jan 2012
Are Academies ‘proven to succeed’?

Considering GCSE results, Ofsted and exclusions it is clear that while some academies succeed, others fail, and forcing a school to become an academy is no guarantee of success.

16 Jan 2012
Sir Robert Woodard Academy goes into Special Measures

The Anti Academies Alliance does not celebrate when academies are unsuccessful, it is the pupils who are losing out. It is important news because as Michael Gove is driving schools that he considers to be ‘underperforming’ to become academies, this is proof that academisation is not the answer to any school’s problems.

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