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IES Breckland in Suffolk, the first school run on a profit-making basis, rated ‘inadequate’ by inspectors
A free school that is expected to be placed into special measures has “let down” parents, union leaders have said. Continue reading
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Unprecedented school privatisation would put profits before pupils
UNISON is warning that profits could be put before pupils, and head teachers could lose control of vital services in 80 academies across the country, as part of a proposal for an unprecedented privatisation of school services by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) Continue reading
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Campaigning for Education: Academies, Free schools and privatisation – Gove’s reforms in trouble
Saturday 25th January, 1-4pm, Central London
Guest Speakers include: Christine Blower, general secretary NUT, Rob Kelsall, NAHT (personal capacity), Parent campaigners from victorious Save Snaresbrook School campaign Continue reading
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NUT Edufacts
EduFacts aims to challenge Government and media rhetoric by presenting the facts about what’s going on in our schools, our education system and in the teaching profession. Each EduFacts factsheet presents a series of short factual statements about a topical … Continue reading
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Poor Prospects
Prospects Services, the education firm blocked from taking on more academy schools because of poor performance, managed to persuade a Tory education minister to overrule his civil servants and ignore the firm’s failures, papers obtained by Private Eye under Freedom of Information show. Continue reading