This is the usual privatisation by stealth - make the public sector fail, so the private sector can appear over the hill like the cavalry, riding in to save the day.

This was likely the plan all along.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 08:11:26 AM EST
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ThatBritGuy:
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

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 09:18:11 AM EST
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Well, I'd go with the Naomi Klein (?) Disaster Capitalism principle. They may have cocked it up by accident, but it's a convenient excuse to privatise and the way the City Academies are arranged looks like a conspiracy to privatise on the quiet.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 09:37:45 AM EST
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Adonis would love to see state funding of schools replaced by the private sector. He has no interest in socialised education at all - in that traditional NuLab quasi-Thatcherite way we all admire so much.

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.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:16:15 AM EST
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