Compulsory Academies

[Mattym]

Good point but one massive advantage the rmt has is that strikes cost the rail companies huge amounts of money. A school strike doesn't cost the schools money does it? If anything it saves them money - it's parents who lose out when they have to take time off to look after the kids.

The school doesn't pay the teacher for strike days- the union might pay the teacher- depending on which union & whether the strike is a national union strike or particular to the school itself. The NASUWT pays for the latter, dunno about the NUT?

 

[brogdale]

The school doesn't pay the teacher for strike days- the union might pay the teacher- depending on which union & whether the strike is a national union strike or particular to the school itself. The NASUWT pays for the latter, dunno about the NUT?

In my experience, there is no strike pay at all amongst the teaching unions; members just take the hit to their pay packet and pension service days.

 

[Mattym]

In my experience, there is no strike pay at all amongst the teaching unions; members just take the hit to their pay packet and pension service days.

I've been paid every time- when it's a single school in question.

 

[brogdale]

I've been paid every time- when it's a single school in question.

Ah, I see. This won't be single school.

 

[brogdale]

This...

This is what happens when you try to hold an academy school to account...

 

[killer b]

This...

This is what happens when you try to hold an academy school to account...

This is the purpose of academisation (or one of them anyway) - the removal of accountability.

 

[Fez909]

Academy 'superhead' fiddling the books to pay himself twice. He was praised by Cameron for running "one of the most successful comprehensive schools ever in Britain"

Tories sneak out damning report on Academy trust just before Easter holiday

 

[scifisam]

Academy 'superhead' fiddling the books to pay himself twice. He was praised by Cameron for running "one of the most successful comprehensive schools ever in Britain"

Tories sneak out damning report on Academy trust just before Easter holiday

£1.3million! Conscienceless bastard.

 

[Lord Camomile]

He said while he had a “fantastic salary” it was not high given the context of the schools’ budget of £30 million.

Otherwise it would have just been wasted on educational resources...

 

[stethoscope]

According to this, the academy is now to be 'stripped of its schools', however..

The five Perry Beeches schools are expected be “rebrokered” by the DfE and pass to a new chain, the West Midlands academies trust, which is headed by David Kershaw, a Labour cabinet member of Coventry council.

It's just going to be a passing game from one academy 'chain' to another.

 

[brogdale]

Already in the tory civil war thread, but I think for continuity the story also deserves to go here...

Tory backbench rebellion threat over Osborne’s academies plan

The leader of the backbench Conservatives at Westminster has raised serious concerns about plans to force all state schools to become academies by 2022 in a blow to the government’s hopes of forcing the proposals on to the statute book.

In a sign of the depth of Tory unrest, Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, said the proposals announced in George Osborne’s budget last month could lead to the creation of “new and distant bureaucracies” rather than delivering greater freedom and autonomy for schools. He also said they could have the unwelcome effect of removing parents from governing bodies and reducing accountability.

Good.

 

[brogdale]

Another U-turn.

 

[Mattym]

What the country's largest council has voted on academy plans

If more councils were to do the same, will it make a difference?

 

[brogdale]

Trouble ahead for the Government...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Heartbreaking stuff, and undoubtedly not an isolated incident.

 

[brogdale]

 

[Libertad]

Push back and they fall over.

 

[brogdale]

Push back and they fall over.

Good day to bury bad policy.

 

[Libertad]

Good day to bury bad policy.

You're probably right.

 

[DotCommunist]

failing schools still to be compelled though, backdoor remains.

 

[Libertad]

failing schools still to be compelled though, backdoor remains.

Though they will be seen as less of a "profit centre" and harder to sell to the academies corps. (Unless they have land and buildings that can be asset stripped.)

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Corbyn gets it wrong again! Why does everything he touch turn to shit?

Forcing schools to become academies could be the junior doctors' dispute, Jeremy Corbyn has signalled as David Cameron refused to U-turn on his hated plans.

The Labour leader made the stark comparison at Prime Minister's Questions just hours after teachers and doctors joined forces to march on Downing Street.

Experts, Tory MPs and Tory council leaders have begged the PM and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan not to force every school in England to become an academy by 2020.

Today the PM confirmed he will mimic Jeremy Hunt by forcing through his plans by law in the Queen's Speech.

He signalled a climbdown by not committing to doing it by 2020 - but insisted ALL schools will still become academies.
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Cheers - Louis MacNeice

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[redsquirrel]

These wonderful academies

The trust’s governing board is also to step down, leaving the management of the trust’s five schools in the hands of the Department for Education (DfE) until new academy sponsors can be found.

The Perry Beeches trust’s financial difficulties, including debts estimated by one member of staff as reaching £1.8m and rising by tens of thousands of pounds each month, have deterred potential sponsors, meaning that the trust will probably be divided up and individual schools taken over by different sponsors.

 

[two sheds]

Corbyn gets it wrong again! Why does everything he touch turn to shit?

We're being ironic?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

We're being ironic?

With the way much of the media reports on Corbyn (and anything even remotely Corbyn related) there is increasingly little room for irony...but yes I was giving it a go.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[stethoscope]

Smash academies now.

Unqualified daughter of minister teaches in his academy schools

An academy chain set up by the schools minister Lord Nash is allowing his unqualified and unpaid daughter to teach history and help draw up a new curriculum, prompting concerns from parents and a teachers’ union.

Future Academies in Pimlico, central London, was set up by the minister in charge of academies and his wife, Caroline. They both maintain prominent roles in the organisation.

Since September, their daughter Jo Nash has taught four classes between the ages of 10 and 16. She is also advising on a new curriculum to teach history and is involved in the recruitment of staff.
The role of Jo Nash, 32, who has no teaching qualifications but does have a degree in history, has been questioned by teachers and staff.

Since 2012, academy schools have been able to hire unqualified teachers, angering many in the profession. Until then, they could only employ people with qualified teacher status.

Two parents made complaints about Jo Nash, but a lawyer speaking on behalf of Lord Nash, his daughter and the academy said these were minor, that the overall response had been positive and that she was not paid for her services.

But some teachers have questioned why she has been given a teaching role. They say her role reinforces the impression that the Nash family is treating the four-school chain as a private fiefdom.

Michael Parker, the Westminster branch secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said he was baffled by Jo Nash’s role at the school.
“I find it extraordinary that an unpaid, untrained and unqualified volunteer is being allowed to teach children. This is an example of what parents need to be prepared for if the deregulation of education continues.

“Teachers and parents need to be able to trust the system of governance at Future Academies to oversee an untrained and unqualified teacher. It is difficult to maintain faith when the academy trust was set up by an unqualified teacher’s parents and her father is the minister for schools,” he said.

A spokesperson for Future, two of whose four schools have been judged as outstanding by Ofsted, said: “All of our teachers either have qualified teacher status or have a degree relevant to the subject they teach.”

 

[DotCommunist]

venture capitalists, just the people we need in schools. Or saltmines

 

[StoneRoad]

venture capitalists, just the people we need in schools. Or saltmines

yes to the latter and no to the former ...

 

[stethoscope]

That whole 'chain' thing is so very wrong when it comes to schools. It's not a retail brand.

 

[DotCommunist]

That whole 'chain' thing is so very wrong when it comes to schools. It's not a retail brand.

yeah but all teachers are secretly left wingers and local authorities facilitate their marxist indoctrinaiton of our children, and for some reason we've got a huge system proccesing millions of future workers every day and nobody is MAKING A FUCKING PROFIT OUT OF THEM

it can't go on like this etc