Exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain's schools.
Exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain's schools.
1. From Colleges to Academies; 2. Blunkett throws money at Academies; 3. Sponsors in ermine; 4. How they tore up the laws on schools; 5. Faith in Academies; 6. A learning curve in West London; 7. Islington feels the wrath of Downing Street; 8. The schools that fail to fail; 9. Selecting staff, sponsors and children; 10. But does it work?