Publications and Press
Publications
Report:
The Academies Commission Report, ‘Unleashing Greatness: Getting the best from an academised system‘, published on 10th January, 2013. Download report here.
Launch of the Academies Commission final report, RSA, 10/01/2013; 18:00
Listen to full recording including audience Q&A from RSA Events here (to download audio file onto your computer, please right-click link and choose “Save Link As…” )
Watch the edited highlights of the event on this RSA Public Events Programme page.
Articles and blog posts:
Prof Chris Husbands, IOE London Blog, 14/01/2013
If knowledge in education is sticky, how do we get it unstuck and flowing?
Prof Becky Francis, The Pearson Think Tank blog, 17/01/2013
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration
Christine Gilbert, GovToday, 21/01/2013
Creating successful Academies
Press
Our press release is available here.
Responses to the report:
Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS)
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)
Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL)
National Union of Teachers (NUT)
Stephen Twigg MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary
Media Coverage:
Financial Times, 09/01/2013
Success of new academies as yet unproved
Accord Coalition, 10/01/2013
Debate over segregation in schools should not overlook growing religious segregation, cautions Accord
BBC Breakfast, 10/01/2013
BBC News, 10/01/2013
Academies could ‘fuel social segregation’
BBC News, 10/01/2013
Some academies in England ‘covertly’ selecting pupils (video)
BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, 10/01/2013
Christine Gilbert, Commission Chair, and Bill Watkin, operational director for academies at SSAT, discuss potential improvements to the academies system.
Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, 10/01/2013
Unleashing Inequality
Channel 4 News, 10/01/2013
Academies ‘covertly select’ privileged pupils
Conservative Home, 10/01/2013
Academy schools are breaking down social segregation not fueling it
Disability News Service, 10/01/2013
Report suggests spread of academies is undermining inclusion
Education Investor, 10/01/2013
Government should improve academy accountability
King’s College London, 10/01/2013
Academies report published
Modern Governor, 10/01/2013
Governors’ Role in Academies Needs “Greater Attention”
Public Finance, 10/01/2013
Academy schools must select fairly
The Guardian, 10/01/2013
Academies report disguises the damage they are doing to British schools
The Guardian, 10/01/2013
Academies use covert selection methods to skew intake
The Guardian, 10/01/2013
School academies: not all good, or all bad – but all in need of a helping hand
The Huffington Post UK, 10/01/2013
Academies Manipulating Admissions To Exclude Poorer Pupils
The Independent, 10/01/2013
Academies ‘flout admissions rules to select privileged pupils’
The New Statesman: The Staggers, 10/01/2013
How academies covertly select pupils
The Northern Echo, 10/01/2013
Criticism of academies ‘one-sided’ says principal
The Telegraph, 10/01/2013
Academies accused of cherry picking middle-class pupils
The Telegraph Blog: News – Education, 10/01/2013
Contrary to ‘exclusive’ reports in the press, the Tories don’t have any plans to privatise state education
The Times, 10/01/2013
Strip councils of schools power
Independent Schools Council (ISC) blog, 11/01/2013
Collabetition, anyone?
Institute of Education (IOE), University of London, 11/01/2013
Local authorities should be ‘children’s champions’ under an academised school system, says IOE director
NAHT Blog: Education Otherwise – Susan Young, 11/01/2013
Academies, improving the system, and a much-misquoted report
TES, 11/01/2013
Academy status is ‘not a panacea’, experts warn
TES, 11/01/2013
From The Editor – An unfinished revolution in the reign of timidity
SecEd, 16/01/2013
Commission highlights covert selection practices and a lack of transparency in some academies
Socialist Educational Association (SEA) blog, 16/01/2013
Does the Academies Commission provide a new agenda for schools?
TES, 18/01/2013
Why do some feel the need to segregate?
Montrose42′ Blog, 20/01/2013
Collaboration and Interdependence – Is this the key to improve our education system?
edapt, Blog, 21/01/2013
A glimmer of hope from the Academies Commission?
The Guardian, 21/01/2013
Schools work best when they work together
REOnline, 22/01/2013
Unleashing Greatness and RE
Innovation Unit, Blog, 23/01/2013
Why schools need a dating service
Local Schools Network, 23/01/2013
Innovation is inhibited by league tables not by lack of freedom says Commission
Guardian, Teacher Network, 24/01/2013
Academy schools: a flawed system that cannot be sustained
The National Foundation for Educational Research, 31/01/2013
Ways to unleash greatness: key tools for all schools
Twitter @acadcomm #acadcomm
For a selection of tweets discussing the Academies Commission report, please click here.
To view the twitter conversation at the report launch event at the RSA, please click here.