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Nicky Morgan is wrong – the evidence for academies doesn’t add up

Posted on 5 June 2015 by Sara

The education secretary Nicky Morgan has launched a bill designed to sweep away any obstacles when as many as 1,000 “struggling” schools convert to academies. It is designed to prevent appeals and reviews, and will impose a new duty on councils and governing bodies, whatever they believe is best for their children, to actively support the change to academy status. Continue reading →

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New Education Bill – The democratic right to question academy status

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Sara

When Nicky Morgan took over from Michael Gove there was a sigh of relief from schools across England when she said she was not a forcing type of person. But her first education bill could force hundreds of headteachers on to the scrap heap and their schools into multi academy chains. Continue reading →

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