This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has attracted severe criticism from teachers on her remarks about academies being better than council schools. Morgan made the statement today on the launch of a bid to sack ‘failing’ heads at the same time as cutting education budgets, i.e. a move that has angered teaching unions.
Thereafter during an interview, Morgan was inquired that if ‘all things being equal’ she thought academies were a better type of school than those under council control. In her reply, she stated that “I do. I think we can see in the results that actually, er, students do do better in academies both at the end of Key Stage 2, that’s primary schools, and at the end of GCSEs.” However, the statement has received severe disapproval from several teachers who demanded to see the hard evidence. Quite noticeably, the Commons Education Committee has also stopped short of backing her claims.
More than 4,600 schools are now academies after being freed from council control and given more freedom. According to an official government document unveiled in March, the growing comparison between the two could be ‘spurious’ because successful schools often become academies anyway. The paper pointed out that “simple aggregations of attainment or other measures can lead to spurious conclusions about performance within a chain or local authority,” adding that “they will often reflect the type of schools that have entered into the chain relationship or that remain with a local authority.”
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