NASUWT: ‘Academies widening educational inequality’
Commenting on the publication of the National Audit Office report into the Academies Programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“Taken as a whole, these results show academies are doing no better and no worse than maintained schools. “Some academies are improving quickly but from a low starting point. “However, the most disturbing evidence is of widening social and educational inequality in academy schools.
“The Coalition Government’s ideological obsession with academy schools is not based on sound educational evidence that those schools deliver higher educational outcomes for pupils. In fact, academy schools risk worsening the outcomes for the most disadvantaged pupils.
“In the face of this report and a wealth of other evidence, if the Coalition Government proceeds with its obsessive promotion of academies and free schools, it will clearly demonstrate that it is hell-bent on wrecking a state education system that provides entitlement to high quality education for all children and young people.”
ENDS
Stuart Gannon
NASUWT Press Office
Tel: 020 7420 9681
Mobile (and out of hours contact): 07966 198894
Address: 5 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8SD
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