Taxpayers funding high salaries, perks, expenses of academy chiefs
 

So this is a surprise.

I'm shocked I tell you.

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...P=share_btn_tw

Re: Taxpayers funding high salaries, perks, expenses of academy chiefs
 

There can't have been many staff at that Marco Pierre White dinner if the bill come to £471....

The logic behind getting private sector involvement in public sector work is always a bit dubious to me. I can see it working where competition is real but can people really make something run so effectively that not only do they run the service for less money but they also manage to make a profit themselves? It seems the efficiency is at the lower end of the organisation, i.e the staff, but at the top they're even more wasteful than the public sector.

Re: Taxpayers funding high salaries, perks, expenses of academy chiefs
 

We are all in it together of course.;)

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In all the academies I've worked in the changes are usually cosmetic. A name change, some buildings get refurbished,some are new,the uniform alters,maybe a new library. However the intake of children is the same as before and pretty quickly it becomes apparent that little has changed. Grades improve for a while but soon slide back..but that's just my experience.

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A friend of mine is a secondary school teacher. She isn't long out of college (only a few years), and has had a few jobs, including in Academies. Apparently, when one particularly awful school in Kidbrooke was taken over, grades did improve massively. She worked for that school, and then went on to work for the Harris acadamies. She left a couple of years later, saying basically the same as Maggy. She actually now works for my old school, and reckons that is still the best school in the borough. Made even better by the fact the local council recently spent a small fortune building a new school with state of the art facilities for it.

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At least with LEAs there can be proper oversight..Gove is an idiot.