Friday, 11 June 2010

Academies expansion in jeopardy

Official assessment finds just 200 can be created this year, throwing flagship Government schools policy into doubt

The government will be forced to slash the number of academies it had hoped to create by September due to a lack of time and resources.

The Department for Education (DfE) had anticipated that the number of academies would triple by the beginning of the new academic year once the Academies Bill has become law.

But doubts have been cast on the Department’s capacity to manage the conversion of so many schools in such a narrow time frame over the summer, particularly with a recruitment freeze in the civil service.

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