Academisation of state schools was always going to end like this.
Pay at the top of some multi-academy trusts has spiralled out of control. £220k salaries and £50k pensions cannot be justified while classrooms are under-resourced.
#EducationFirst #AcademyAccountability
#EducationFirst #AcademyAccountability
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Academisation of state schools was always going to end like this.
#Streeting is stealth privatiding the NHS, just like Blair stealth privatised education with academisation.
#SaveOurNHS
#SaveOurNHS
Streeting’s NHS plan: the deadliest corporate cuckoo yet placed in the health service - In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stre...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stre...
Streeting’s NHS plan: the deadliest corporate cuckoo yet placed in the health service
THE publication of Wes Streeting’s 10 Year Plan for Health in England removes any doubts that Health Secretary is dead-set to hammer the final nails into the coffin of the NHS.Rather than support a se...
morningstaronline.co.uk
March 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
#Streeting is stealth privatiding the NHS, just like Blair stealth privatised education with academisation.
#SaveOurNHS
#SaveOurNHS
Wait Sam, I thought that Ofsted, Gove and academisation had eliminated crap schools and a lack of reading.
September 25, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Wait Sam, I thought that Ofsted, Gove and academisation had eliminated crap schools and a lack of reading.
Academisation hasn’t exactly been a disaster but neither has it led to the market in education and shrinking of the state envisaged has it?
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Academisation hasn’t exactly been a disaster but neither has it led to the market in education and shrinking of the state envisaged has it?
A striking non-answer in education questions: Bridget Phillipson asked if she thinks academisation drove up school standards, did not reply.
November 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A striking non-answer in education questions: Bridget Phillipson asked if she thinks academisation drove up school standards, did not reply.
There needs to be an urgent large scale study of how academisation has impacted on England’s state education system, and action taken based on the results. Small scale studies are turning in quite alarming findings. @yorksbylines.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
November 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
There needs to be an urgent large scale study of how academisation has impacted on England’s state education system, and action taken based on the results. Small scale studies are turning in quite alarming findings. @yorksbylines.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
I’ve spent a decent amount of the last two days researching primary academies and the general process of school academisation.
It’s been about a joyful as you can imagine.
It’s been about a joyful as you can imagine.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’ve spent a decent amount of the last two days researching primary academies and the general process of school academisation.
It’s been about a joyful as you can imagine.
It’s been about a joyful as you can imagine.
MATs, the anti-gift that goes on giving, while Labour tinkers around the edges. #EduSky
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
MATs, the anti-gift that goes on giving, while Labour tinkers around the edges. #EduSky
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
I said this was the goal *years* ago, even before LLMs were a thing. They’ve been deskilling teachers for the last decade - we’ve been ‘facilitators to learning’ since academisation was rolled out and our classroom autonomy was taken away. This is fucking terrifying. Absolutely NOT.
June 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I said this was the goal *years* ago, even before LLMs were a thing. They’ve been deskilling teachers for the last decade - we’ve been ‘facilitators to learning’ since academisation was rolled out and our classroom autonomy was taken away. This is fucking terrifying. Absolutely NOT.
Zack Polanski tells NEU teachers' union Greens oppose academisation and would abolish 'toxic, failed' Ofsted - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
March 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Zack Polanski tells NEU teachers' union Greens oppose academisation and would abolish 'toxic, failed' Ofsted - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Says the man who rode shotgun on the privatisation of publicly funded schools for over a decade. 🙄 @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Says the man who rode shotgun on the privatisation of publicly funded schools for over a decade. 🙄 @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
If you're not aware of the levels of punishment now flooding our secondary schools (since academisation), read this. It is scaring a generation of children. 472 kids have had to leave this school in three years - but it's not just this school.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If you're not aware of the levels of punishment now flooding our secondary schools (since academisation), read this. It is scaring a generation of children. 472 kids have had to leave this school in three years - but it's not just this school.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
Definitely. Too many MATs are corporate child prisons run by CEOs and business managers who have never taught anyone in their lives. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Definitely. Too many MATs are corporate child prisons run by CEOs and business managers who have never taught anyone in their lives. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social’s speech to @neunion.bsky.social conference today:
➡️ Government’s White Paper ‘will entrench failings’
➡️ Academy trusts ‘another failed model’
➡️ Ofsted is ‘toxic, failed institution’
➡️ Government’s White Paper ‘will entrench failings’
➡️ Academy trusts ‘another failed model’
➡️ Ofsted is ‘toxic, failed institution’
Polanski: White Paper will ‘entrench failings’ in school system
Green Party leader Zack Polanski headlines the NEU teaching union’s annual conference, speaking out against academisation, Ofsted and current school funding
www.tes.com
March 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social’s speech to @neunion.bsky.social conference today:
➡️ Government’s White Paper ‘will entrench failings’
➡️ Academy trusts ‘another failed model’
➡️ Ofsted is ‘toxic, failed institution’
➡️ Government’s White Paper ‘will entrench failings’
➡️ Academy trusts ‘another failed model’
➡️ Ofsted is ‘toxic, failed institution’
Critics of privatisation have been pointing this out this would happen since the days of Thatcher. Oh the irony of being preached at on privatisation by one of the main architects of the accelerated academisation (privatisation) of our state schools during the Gove years
July 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Critics of privatisation have been pointing this out this would happen since the days of Thatcher. Oh the irony of being preached at on privatisation by one of the main architects of the accelerated academisation (privatisation) of our state schools during the Gove years
Academisation = Privatisation
Letters challenging notion that academisation has driven up standards www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Defend the children’s bill from academy lobbyists | Letters
Letters: Alasdair Macdonald says the last 14 years were not a success for the schools system, while Michael Pyke thinks the government is right to rein in academies. Plus, a letter by Paul McGilchrist
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Academisation = Privatisation
2/ His project was clear; a knowledge-rich curriculum, tougher examinations, and rapid academisation. These reforms were presented as “rigour”, but they centralised authority and intensified pressure on schools.
August 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
2/ His project was clear; a knowledge-rich curriculum, tougher examinations, and rapid academisation. These reforms were presented as “rigour”, but they centralised authority and intensified pressure on schools.
What happened is academisation and the dominance of the brand.
September 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
What happened is academisation and the dominance of the brand.
A thinly veiled diatribe about the dangers of academisation?
August 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
A thinly veiled diatribe about the dangers of academisation?
Education has been privatised by the back door under the guise of 'academisation'.
Where once we had accountable governors & LEAs, now we have shadowy 'trustees' and Multi-Academy Trusts
Where once we had accountable governors & LEAs, now we have shadowy 'trustees' and Multi-Academy Trusts
In Rip off Britain, education has been treated as yet another commodity.
And those who work in education are treated badly over and over again.
Awful for educators and awful for students.
I'll be speaking tonight at the University and College Union 👇🏼
And those who work in education are treated badly over and over again.
Awful for educators and awful for students.
I'll be speaking tonight at the University and College Union 👇🏼
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In the latest example of @zackpolanski.bsky.social bid to develop ties with unions, he is expected to tell UCU govt should stop treating uni students like customers
+ expected to warn that academics nationwide are facing "shattered morale, crushing workloads, and stifled innovation"
In the latest example of @zackpolanski.bsky.social bid to develop ties with unions, he is expected to tell UCU govt should stop treating uni students like customers
+ expected to warn that academics nationwide are facing "shattered morale, crushing workloads, and stifled innovation"
May 28, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Education has been privatised by the back door under the guise of 'academisation'.
Where once we had accountable governors & LEAs, now we have shadowy 'trustees' and Multi-Academy Trusts
Where once we had accountable governors & LEAs, now we have shadowy 'trustees' and Multi-Academy Trusts
Schools following academisation have been made abruptly less accessible to students with much more focus on getting rid of kids who don't fit the mould than before. This increases the cost of providing specialist support to those children outside of mainstream or even inside it.
£100 million spent TO BLOCK SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT. Think how much good this money could have done if it had actually been invested in it instead. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Schools following academisation have been made abruptly less accessible to students with much more focus on getting rid of kids who don't fit the mould than before. This increases the cost of providing specialist support to those children outside of mainstream or even inside it.
As the @neunion.bsky.social says, ending forced academisation is welcome — but it’s only a half U-turn. Too many schools remain trapped in multi-academy trusts. I propose a new “academy reversal order” to give communities a way forward.
Full debate here: bit.ly/41OBRCj
#Education
Full debate here: bit.ly/41OBRCj
#Education
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As the @neunion.bsky.social says, ending forced academisation is welcome — but it’s only a half U-turn. Too many schools remain trapped in multi-academy trusts. I propose a new “academy reversal order” to give communities a way forward.
Full debate here: bit.ly/41OBRCj
#Education
Full debate here: bit.ly/41OBRCj
#Education
Nailed it Pam. Privatisation (because that's what academisation is) has recreated the wild west.
February 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Nailed it Pam. Privatisation (because that's what academisation is) has recreated the wild west.