One of the biggest chains of academies in England is to lose control of 10 of its schools

[Philipnet]

One of the biggest chains of academies in England is to lose control of 10 of its schools.

The decision was made after Ofsted inspectors raised serious concerns about the performance of some schools run by the E-Act academy chain.

E-Act will remain in control of the further 24 academies in its chain, while officials work to find different sponsors for the 10 schools affected.

E-Act, which now faces the loss of a third of its schools, was subject to a mass inspection of its schools by the Ofsted watchdog, with almost half being recently inspected.

Mr Gove told the BBC that it's "right that they should be held to account - and both academy trusts and local authorities have, in the past, been ineffective, at times, in bringing about the rate of change and the speed of change required.

"So where they have been less than effective, we've decided that it's appropriate that action be taken."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-26335206

[SiHart]

Interesting thread title!

As for the report, I can't say I'm surprised, since Academies are not under the same obligations as proper (!) schools.

[Rob McCow]

What does he mean 'Speed of change?' - what is so awful about schools that they need rapid, speedy change all the bloody time? Changing into what exactly?

[Philipnet]

Interesting thread title!

Copy and paste for the win

Obviously I must have half asleep when I posted that.
Just like I'm half asleep now!

[Jon Masters]

You're all very wrong - Michael Gove is a God and a giant of the education system.

Do not mock the Gove.

[SiHart]

Jon, are you feeling OK? I think you might need a little lie down.

[Rob McCow]

S***. They've got to Jon. If they can get him, they can get anyone. Tinfoil hats!

[Stuart Wallis]

Stop giving me ideas! (Starts the brain manipulators...)

[Jon Masters]

S***. They've got to Jon. If they can get him, they can get anyone. Tinfoil hats!

I was posting from work - Govey spends all day monitoring teachers' email accounts (at least I assume he MUST spend his day doing something )

I'm just back from a meeting where our lovely academy provider has announced it needs to make redundancies because of another 'unexpected black hole' in our finances

[Rob McCow]

another 'unexpected black hole' in our finances

"But FIVE of them? How can you be ambushed by five black holes?"[/reddwarf]

[Dirk Gently]