Tag Archives: Councils

Council scores first on Education Secretary’s plans for academy

Posted on 21 January 2014 by AAA office

The High Court has ruled in favour of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham halting the Secretary of State’s decision to convert The Warren Comprehensive School into an academy against the wishes of local residents. Continue reading →

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Crying Middle Tiers

Posted on 17 December 2013 by AAA office

The monitoring of free schools and academies continues to cause misery for the DfE but more importantly for the children, parents and staff at Discovery – ordered to close less than two years after opening; at Al-Madinah described by Ofsted as chaotic; Kings Science Academy, Lincoln Priory, Barnfield … the list goes on. On 2 December the DfE refused a FOI request saying ‘recent press claims about the creation of regional regulatory bodies were speculation and based on out of date information’ , but just three days later adverts for the £140,000 commissioners appeared in the TES. Continue reading →

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Education, Justice and Democracy – The Struggle over Ignorance and Opportunity

Posted on 23 October 2013 by AAA office

By Stephen J Ball FBA AcSS
Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education
The history of English education is very much a history of social class. The 1944 Education Act, the wartime government’s response to the great evil of ignorance, did little to interrupt that history. Rather it brought about a very modest loosening of the relationship between social class and educational opportunity. This was partly in relation to the raising of the school leaving age and partly by allowing some working class students access to grammar schooling via the 11+ examination system Continue reading →

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Labour to allow academies to opt into LA control?

Posted on 5 October 2013 by AAA office

For immediate release: Tweets from today’s National Governors Association NGA conference suggest that Stephen Twigg, Shadow Secretary of State for Education,  in a marked shift in policy has announced that a Labour government would allow academies to convert back to local … Continue reading →

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Roke – even the Tories think it’s wrong.

Posted on 19 February 2013 by AAA office

Email from Conservative Counsellor for Kenley, Steven Hollands Continue reading →

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