Gill Eatough, principal of Hadley Learning Community in Shropshire, and her governing body are clear that academy status is not for them – at least, not for now.
“We have a group of governors and staff who keep looking at it,” she explained.
“And the main question we keep coming back to is: what is the educational value of becoming an academy? We have a new building; we are a popular school with rising standards. There are no problems recruiting staff. The budgets are okay.
“The school is six-years-old, and it has taken me that long to establish its vision and ethos, to market it and establish its position in the community. The school is now in a very, very strong position. Michael Gove (the education secretary) claims that academies are raising standards across schools. Well, we’re in the top 100 most improved schools in the country.
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