thm – Heres for all us half a brainers 😉
He wanted to do it initially when the whole Free Schools experiment in ‘Creative Chaos’ was conceived in his warped little 1950’s throwback mind
The Free School programme is enormously over budget, and is hoovering up funding from the rest of the education system. As we’ve seen over the years, the Tories only ever plough money into things for one reason – when they’re about to hand it over to their mates in the private sector. At which point the soon-to-be-privatised is now exempt from austerity and has limitless taxpayers money hurled at it
The second, more radical, route is towards fundamentally shifting the basis of our relationship with academies through reclassifying academies to the private sector, possibly coupled with a change in the legal framework such as adopting a licensing or FE-like statutory corporation approach
How do you lot with full brains perceive that then?