James Hargrave's Old Blog: academies

Andy Burnham's Twitter Challenge to Lib Dem MPs

Andy Burnham MP Shadow Education Secretary In the wake of last Thursday's elections Ed Miliband is calling on Lib Dem ministers to q...

I blogged earlier this year on Academy status in a post called Academy Status: The Question that won't go away about how all schools sh...

The author is Chair of Governors of Stradbroke Primary School, Suffolk but this article is written in a personal capacity and all opinions a...

This morning I blogged about Academies and Local control - the great confidence trick? I was secretly hoping that on my way home from work ...

Stephen Pollard writing in The Telegraph today suggests that Gove needs to fight "the enemy within" and "destroy" the e...

So Gove wants to encourage large numbers, quite likely to be thousands of maintained schools to switch to become academies. This is touted a...