This is a story by someone who has studied what sorts of people sponsor academy schools, and it shows how flawed the theory of academy schools is. Highlights include:
"While diversity is an explicit aim of educational policy, diversity of sponsorship is limited. Over half of academies (53%) are sponsored by business (mostly individual business people)."
"This is not to question the motivations or the appropriateness of particular sponsors giving their support to education. But sponsorship tends to reflect the existing pattern of social and economic power: the people and organisations who already have advantages and influence will have most sway over the future education of our children - there is an inherent conservatism in the system."
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