Summary
[...] the first obvious advantage of a company-run school is that it actually knows how a business works: it's freer to ignore government micro-managing, sack ineffectual teachers and reward success. [...] business knows the value of co-operation as well as competition and almost all academies share their facilities with neighbouring schools, and they have the initiative to seize on excellent new ideas, like the Teach First scheme that recruits and trains top graduates and sends them into difficult schools. At this time of rising unemployment and with real concern about how the British workforce can compete in a global economy it is an understandable elision.
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Education: Just Whose Business Is It Anyway?
Alice Spinner and Mark Hunter debate the pros and cons of letting companies sponsor schools
The case forEvery day as I leave home for work, absent-mindedly, sometimes grumpily, I pass a sight that lifts me out of gloom.In the playground of the school opposite, little rows of primary school children stand in long crocodiles, chirpy but attentive and spic and span in their uniforms. When the children first arrive at this model school, most can't speak English - many are d...See the full content of this document
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