Pupils win – no strings attached [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 30 May 2010
On June 7 the governors of William Farr comprehensive school, near Lincoln, will meet to discuss revolution. Like hundreds of other schools, it is being offered the chance by the government to take much more control of its own destiny.
Paul Strong, the head teacher, wants to turn the school into an independent academy, freeing it from local authority control. He wants more leeway over what it teaches, how it employs staff and how it spends state funds. Many other schools are looking at the proposals, billed as the biggest change in education for decades.
Sir Robert Balchin, pro-chancellor of Brunel University and an adviser on the plan, said: “This will at last give the kind of freedom to schools that has been unknown outside the independent sector for decades.”
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