The government is poised to radically expand the academies programme to include children as young as four by announcing that it has given the go-ahead for the takeover of three struggling local primaries. Lord Adonis, the schools minister, told the Guardian that he had sanctioned the first so-called "matrix" academy, where three primaries on separate sites will feed into a secondary under a central management system to serve a total of 2,200 children. The plan to involve privately sponsored academies in turning round primary schools comes amid increasing concern that the government's focus on improving struggling secondaries has not addressed fundamental flaws in primary schools.
Lord Adonis, the schools minister, told the Guardian that he had sanctioned the first so-called "matrix" academy, where three primaries on separate sites will feed into a secondary under a central management system to serve a total of 2,200 children.
The plan to involve privately sponsored academies in turning round primary schools comes amid increasing concern that the government's focus on improving struggling secondaries has not addressed fundamental flaws in primary schools.
the Good news : The government is trying to do something about the appalling standards of education in primary schools.
The bad news : The government is trying to do something about the appalling standards of education in primary schools. keep to the Fen Causeway
This was likely the plan all along.
This was likely the plan all along
I really do not think the people in power are that clever.
Certainly not in relation to fucking up primary education deliberately as opposed to by sheer incompetence.
For me, it's "Cock Up" over "Conspiracy" every time, because "they" simply cannot even conspire competently.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
He was also responsible for pushing through the top-up fee legislation for the UK's university sector.
It costs £25m of public money to build a city academy, and unlike state schools, which are penalised financially for excluding pupils, city academies can exclude whoever they want to. Officially they're not allowed to be selective, but the lack of penalties for exclusion is a fine loophole for that.
Adonis escaped the public sector by winning a scholarship to a posh boarding school from a council flat, and I'd guess his idea of equal opportunity is giving everyone else a chance to do the same.
