Academies.
Tony Blair may be long gone, but his education legacy lives on in the form of that most controversial schools policy: the academy programme. Despite the departure of the most passionate advocate of these new schools, academies remain a source of bitter disagreement and division. Are privately run an...
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| Format: | Streaming video |
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| Language: | English |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Department of Education,
2007.
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| Series: | Jonathan Dimbleby big debate ;
3 Education in video |
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| Online Access: | Click to access this resource online |
| Summary: | Tony Blair may be long gone, but his education legacy lives on in the form of that most controversial schools policy: the academy programme. Despite the departure of the most passionate advocate of these new schools, academies remain a source of bitter disagreement and division. Are privately run and autonomous schools in the state sector the way to bring much needed innovation into the system? Or are they a dangerous dilution of the principle of state education, unfairly attracting resources which would be better spent on deserving comprehensive schools? Jonathan Dimbleby brings together a panel of authoritative voices from both sides of the argument in front of an audience of parents, teachers and pupils for the latest Big Debate. Panellists include anti-academies campaigner Fiona Millar and former Blair policy advisor Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a body which itself sponsors and works with academies. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (43 min.). Previously released as DVD. |