howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
courtesy of kent online, seems that mr carter and mr gove do not see eye to eye on more than one issue.
Schools have been urged to think twice before applying to become academies by the Conservative leader of Kent County Council.
Cllr Paul Carter said extra government cash provided to schools who did convert to academies was drying up and those that now did would end up with lower budgets.
He also said many of the advantages claimed for academies by the government could already be achieved by schools and warned a future government may not continue with the same policy.
Mr Carter, who outlined his views in an end-of-term letter to Kent headteachers, acknowledged he had previously believed all schools should become academies.
Kent already has 32 and a further 34 in the pipeline.
In his letter, he said: "Over a year later, we are looking at a radically different position."
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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#2
Great to hear that Mr Carter understands education rather than just toeing the party line.
It has to be said that Mr Gove is just continuing the agenda set by Mr Balls: more to do with politics than education. Wonderful that Mr Carter is not as ignorant as either two of the former/present ministers of education.
Academies fit political agendas not educational. I also found the architectural merits of the 'New Labour' academies dubious.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
i suspect it is deeper than that darren.
up until now money from central government was sent to county councils to be spent on education, some of it was used on other things though.
with the new academy thingamejigs money goes direct to them and they are at liberty to purchase services cheaper than the county council did.