Conference Blog: Anti-Academies Alliance
Derek McMillan:
Memberrs of WSTA attended the meeting of the Anti-Academies Alliance at Conference.
Paul Holmes MP revealed that one of the great advantages of Academies from a business point of view was that "teachers could be paid less for more work." The otherr advantage quoted to him by supporterrs of the academy policy was that "schools could be released from the restrictions of the national curriculum." As he said, the government could choose to release all schools to innovate rather than restricting that right to the academies.
It will interest teachers in West Sussex that Alice Mahon referred to the "blackmail" in Halifax where teachers were told that academies were "the only game in town". does that ring any bells? She also detailed how debate in the Labour Party was closed down on this issue with critics of the academy programme like herself being censured for speaking out.
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Memberrs of WSTA attended the meeting of the Anti-Academies Alliance at Conference.
Paul Holmes MP revealed that one of the great advantages of Academies from a business point of view was that "teachers could be paid less for more work." The otherr advantage quoted to him by supporterrs of the academy policy was that "schools could be released from the restrictions of the national curriculum." As he said, the government could choose to release all schools to innovate rather than restricting that right to the academies.
It will interest teachers in West Sussex that Alice Mahon referred to the "blackmail" in Halifax where teachers were told that academies were "the only game in town". does that ring any bells? She also detailed how debate in the Labour Party was closed down on this issue with critics of the academy programme like herself being censured for speaking out.
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