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The final frontier for privatisation: schools

As in the NHS, the government’s structural changes to schools are just the start of a massive privatisation process.

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Mossbourne Community Academy, London, wikimedia

‘The dramatic expansion of the academies programme’ represents a ‘dramatic shift of power from the old educational establishment’.

So said Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, a whole year before last week’s ‘dramatic’, although far less antagonistic, announcement that all schools are to be forced into becoming non-state, education providers.