Amazingly flaky DfE document on academies
Friday, June 25th How long did Department for Education officials and ministers spend cobbling together the official document they have published assessing the likely impact of their new academies policy? Not nearly long enough, to judge from what looks like the thrown-together character of this paper, and some truly heroic assumptions on which some of the calculations it comes up with appear to be based. The paper is an “impact assessment” of the academies bill, which is currently going through Parliament. The idea behind this sounds sensible: when policies come out, the government is supposed to show that it has thought through the implications ofRead More →