Academisation: a balanced, fair, even-handed debate
FORUM - Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171
Volume 64 Number 3 (2022)
Academisation: a balanced, fair, even-handed debate
Terry Edwards, Carl Parsons pages 82‑87
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2022.64.3.82
Abstract
This conversation grows out of the book by Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons – How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps (Zero Books 2019). The book was written as a satire, ostensibly lauding the achievements of academisation whilst revealing the commercialised, scandal-ridden, chaotic and ineffective nature of the academy landscape in England. Continuing in the style of the book, this is a conversation between the (pretend) CEO of a multi- academy trust (P) and a (very real) combative opponent of the academisation project (E), weighing up both sides of the academisation debate as the claim is made in the latest Education White Paper that 100% per cent academisation is the ideal.
To cite this article
Terry Edwards, Carl Parsons (2022) Academisation: a balanced, fair, even-handed debate, FORUM, 64(3), 82-87 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2022.64.3.82