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Academies success questioned

2 July 2010

Commenting on the latest data showing that Academies rely on vocational subjects to boost their GCSE passes, Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers' union, said;

"The evidence from Civitas confirms the obvious. It is not the status of a school that raises standards but the school community itself.

"It begs the question why the government is persisting with hoodwinking the country into believing that Academies are the best route to improving education. It is time to drop the programme and concentrate on achieving a good local school for every child, operating under the umbrella of the local authority family of schools.

"Continuing down this road of Academies and free schools will destroy fair and equal state provision of education for no reason other than pursuing an ideological goal of increased privatisation of services".



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