Teachers TV film on academies

09 Jun 2010

 The second film in my series 'Need to Know'  - which each week looks at the latest developments in the new coalition government's education policy - is now on the Teachers TV website.

www.teachers.tv/videos/need-to-know-the-new-academies

 This eleven-minute film looks at academies. I visit an, 'outstanding' primary school in London that is interested in taking-up Michael Gove's invitation to follow a fast-track route to academy status. But the school's head has a number of questions: how much extra money will the school get? do academies have to pay VAT? and what will happen to the federation the school belongs to - can it go with it?

I also visit an all-through 5 to 19 academy which is run as part of a group of schools run by the sponsor charity, ARK. Are there benefits in being part of a wider group when taking on academy status? What do the staff there make of being employed by an academy trust?

To watch the film just follow the link above to Teachers TV.

The next film in the series will look at curriculum change and qualifications, with a focus on what is happening to the Rose Review of the primary curriculum, the prospects for the government' s proposed new reading test at age 6, and the new freedom for schools to offer the international version of the GCSE, the IGCSE.

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