This week’s top posts: Academies’ privatised secondary schools are putting profit first #Croydon #CronxWatch ⁦Anti Academies⁩ ⁦Fiona Millar⁩ ⁦Harris Beulah Hill⁩ ⁦OasisAcademyCoulsdon⁩ insidecroydon.com/2024/08/19/aca…

Have any lessons been learned from the destructive ideological fixation on academisation? Looking at the make-up of this panel, it doesn't seem so. Children, communities and educators deserve (and need) something much, much better than this. schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-12-me…

Anti Academies And the worse thing On the same day as this Fifty English secondary schools suspended more than a quarter of pupils after pandemic theguardian.com/education/arti… The same old faces from the same places Even those who are failing our kids

Anti Academies Depressing. Had hoped for better. There are many talented educationalists who have not followed the so often wasteful academy route and especially the MAT path with its top slicing of budgets to cite one area of concern. Where are they? Not in this panel.

Anti Academies Same old stuff. Which other European countries have a semi privatised model like ours? Utterly depressing.

Anti Academies Should have drawn on wider, deeper, more representative and contemporary experience.

Anti Academies We need a rejig of our education system, to inspire kids & give them a thirst for knowledge not just exam factories who reject those who didn't hit the accepted marks! This panel would be better looking at the Scandi education system!

You'll have to forgive us for being far from excited about today's announcement that Ofsted one word judgements are to cease (the 5 sub-categories will remain as one word judgements). Though the pace may have slowed a little, the direction of travel looks to be equally awful.

Obviously feeling the heat. But changing names won't change a thing. #EndAcademisation schoolsweek.co.uk/trust-ditches-…

Gilbert review also states: "English schools have far more autonomy than in most other countries." Really? Autonomy from which organisations? Schools within multi-academy trusts can lack that. Is this autonomy from central government, from local government...?

"The most hostile perception of our current system is that it is based on a centralised regime of data, tests and inspection, set by gov and invariably, negative, mechanistic and stressful." Yes, but any solution needs to take into acc fx of fragemented/competitive schs system.

SEND crisis. Exclusions. Pension Raids. Class Size Crisis. PTRs Rocketing. Curriculum Narrowing. Fat Cat Pay. No problem. We'll give everyone a 'Lift' and 'rebrand'. And spend a fortune doing it. Sickening. It really is time for change. schoolsweek.co.uk/academies-ente…

Why the U-turn, Bridget Phillipson Keir Starmer The Labour Party. Heartbreaking for these children, parents, and everyone who trusted you with their vote in the belief that you would keep your promise to curtail the rampage of the MATs.

This is rather shocking.

Solidarity with NEU members at Swanshurst School in Birmingham fighting to keep their school a local community school. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Please sign and share. No to the academisation of Swanshurst School in Birmingham. change.org/p/stop-the-aca…