A report by the Education Select Committee, Academies and Free Schools, has concluded what the NUT has been saying all along – that academy status does not result in raised standards, that schools work best in collaboration with others not in isolation, that sponsors and proposers of academies and free schools have not been properly vetted before being allowed to run taxpayer-funded schools, and that the whole system lacks transparency, oversight and is open to fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
The report is utterly damning. What it portrays is an education system in total disarray with little or no accountability or coherence. It has always been clear to the NUT that the creation of academies and free schools was about creating a market in education, not about school improvement.
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