The Socialist 4 August 2010 Con-Dem cuts mean: we need ‘biggest movement since poll tax’ 
We need 'biggest movement since poll tax' 'Radical' cuts require serious action Waltham Forest's Labour council faces opposition Coventry campaigners fight cuts of £140 million Swansea trades council leads battle for services Campaigners answer Bristol's 'Big Conversation' Cuts news: Mental health services facing the axe Afghanistan: US strategy in disarray Oppose divisive academies policy Talks resume at British Airways Angry workers strike over pay freeze and bosses' bonuses Witch-hunted Unison activist wins tribunal Unite general secretary election We won't be a lost generation, fight for jobs and education! No to privatisation of our universities For real jobs, not slave labour Profiting from wrecking the environment Daily Mail admits guilt over smearing Tamil hunger striker Socialism 2010 - a weekend of discussion and debate Love Parade catastrophe was entirely preventable Garment workers demand a living wage Tories put profits before patients Rich just carry on getting richer |
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Home | The Socialist 4 August 2010 | Join the Socialist Party Oppose divisive academies policyBLUNDERING EDUCATION minister, Michael Gove, is finding that the realities of life do not match his free market fantasies. Robin PyeHaving claimed that over a thousand schools wanted to become academies, it turns out the actual number is 153. Academies are able to take control of their own admissions policy and ignore trade unions and nationally agreed pay scales. It turns out that far from straining to be released from the bureaucratic shackles of local government, most headteachers and school governors are happy to continue running schools that work together with other schools in their area to provide a good education system for all children. Ed Balls, the New Labour education spokesman and leadership candidate, has criticised Gove's academy expansion policy but his arguments are undermined by the fact that Gove is merely rolling out a New Labour policy. It was Blair's government that launched academies and persisted with the policy despite any evidence that academies improved children's education. All the pro-business parties are keen to create opportunities for big business to profit from a publicly funded education system as happens in Sweden and the USA. Another reason for the Tories' and New Labour's fixation with the academies model is they hate to see a centrally coordinated, publicly accountable system working. It might give people ideas!After years of setting up academies, there is no evidence of broad support for them from parents, teachers or students. Some communities have accepted academies as the price they have had to pay for having new school buildings. Often, they have tried to find ways of keeping academies linked into the local authority school network. Socialists will continue to support parents, teachers and students in opposing academies. The education system does not need artificial forms of competition foisted on it. It needs resources to reduce class sizes, give teachers more time to plan better lessons and provide support for students' individual needs. In this issue
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