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Originally Posted by Gavin78
I thought this might be better with it's own thread.
Osborne to focus budget on plan to turn all English schools into academies.
Well my wife works in a school and she isn't so sure that this would actually work.
Main focus would be who is the employer? the local councils or the school themselves who pays the staff? will there have to be new contracts and rates of pay. will the schools still be subject to the same holidays or down to the head of the school to set their own.
They also want to make 8 hour days but can kids actually focus for this long?
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Your wife really should know the answer to this by now, an as for kids "focusing" in China the average school day is 7:30am to 5:30pm an their students do a lot better than ours, by a long way.