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Secondary School Review - Birkenhead and Bebington schools
20 May 2011 - TES - Gove banishes creationist groups from free schools
29 December 2010 - Wirral News - Government gives go-ahead for new academy in Wirral
23 December 2010 - Wirral Globe - University Academy to open in Birkenhead next month
17 November 2010 - Wirral News - Prenton High School set to add Latin to curriculum and become ‘fast tracked’ academy
29 October 2010 - building.co.uk - Schools urged to be ‘realistic’ after 40% cuts
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Secondary School Review - West Wirral
25 June 2010 - Wirral Council - New era for Wirral schools
28 September 2009 - Wirral Globe - Two Wirral single-sex schools could merge into one
24 September 2009 - Wirral News - Merger possible for two Wirral single sex schools
24 September 2009 - Liverpool Echo - Pensby boys and girls schools may merge to solve falling pupil numbers
04 January 2008 - TES - Joining forces for a better future
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Birkenhead High School for Girls Academy
22 February 2011 - building.co.uk - Willmott Dixon wins £10.3m Birkenhead Academy deal
11 August 2010 - Wirral News - Ridgeway High remains on Building Schools for the Future investment list after government u-turn
26 November 2009 - Liverpool Echo - Green blueprint for Birkenhead academy
20 November 2009 - Liverpool Daily Post - Wirral's Birkenhead High School Academy told to cater for the poorest
20 November 2009 - Liverpool Echo - Wirral Council says high-flying school must accommodate deprived pupils
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Foundation and Trust Status
07 February 2011 - Wirral Globe - MP asks Government to help resolve Calday grammar school dispute
31 January 2011 - Wirral Globe - Survey shows parents unhappy with Calday school management
07 December 2010 - Wirral Globe - Education watchdogs downgrade Calday Grange Grammar School's 'outstanding' status
11 October 2010 - Liverpool Daily Post - West Kirby’s Calday Grange Grammar School governers come out fighting over criticism of headteacher’s suspension
05 October 2010 - Liverpool Daily Post - Ofsted review into claims of ‘broken governance’ at West Kirby’s Calday Grange school
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Building schools for the Future
08 April 2011 - BBC news - School building system not fit for purpose, review says
25 February 2011 - Telegraph - Michael Gove is accused of breaking promise as funding for school repairs falls by £86,000
25 February 2011 - building.co.uk - Award-winning schools architect fires salvo at government
18 February 2011 - TES - Get your coat, Gove: Labour says he must step away from BSF probe
14 February 2011 - BBC news - Gove school building ruling 'damning' - Labour
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11 February 2011 - Telegraph - Scrapping school building programme an 'abuse of power', judge rules
11 February 2011 - BBC news - Councils defeat government over school buildings
28 January 2011 - building.co.uk - Government plans to cut size of new schools by 15%
28 January 2011 - building.co.uk - Evidence heard in court of councils' challenge to government over schools cull
25 January 2011 - BBC news - Axing of school buildings 'unfair', High Court hears
07 December 2010 - building.co.uk - BSF legal challenge reaches High Court
09 November 2010 - CYP now - New schools unfit for deaf children
25 October 2010 - CYP now - Government looks to make savings on school building projects
17 October 2010 - The Independent - Turn empty shops and offices into schools, says charity
15 October 2010 - TES - Gove pledges to fight BSF action
09 October 2010 - CDS - School environments DO matter
05 October 2010 - BBC news - Legal challenge against axing of school building plans
05 October 2010 - CYP now - Gove faces legal challenge over scrapping Building Schools for the Future
24 September 2010 - CYP now - Billions needed to provide all children with sound classrooms, say LGA and ADCS
24 September 2010 - LGA - £15billion cost of a decent school place for every child
23 September 2010 - LGC - Capital Review team 'will back' prefab schools
23 September 2010 - Construction Enquirer - Prefab plans provide hope for axed BSF schemes
27 August 2010 - TES - Aggrieved LAs ponder joint legal action over 'lost' BSF millions
13 August 2010 - building.co.uk - Academies on danger list ask 'what must we do to survive?'
13 August 2010 - building.co.uk - BSF collapse: Acrimony, angst and anger
06 August 2010 - BBC news - Rebuild plans for 75 schools scaled back
06 August 2010 - CYP now - Gove gives green light for school building projects as two councils threaten to sue
28 July 2010 - building.co.uk - Gove tells MPs why he scrapped BSF
28 July 2010 - CYP now - DfE accused of ignoring advice to check Building Schools for the Future information
28 July 2010 - BBC news - School buildings will still get cash, Gove promises
27 July 2010 - BBC news - MPs told advice to check school building list ignored
21 July 2010 - The Independent - School buildings 'not suitable for learning'
21 July 2010 - BBC news - School buildings 'not fit' for learning, say teachers
21 July 2010 - building.co.uk - BSF debate: experts predict future of school building
20 July 2010 - Local Government Chronicle - Councils' lost BSF spending tops £200m
19 July 2010 - Local Government Association - School building cancellations leave a £200 million bill for councils
19 July 2010 - BBC news - School buildings threaten to cast a long shadow
19 July 2010 - NUT - Questions to ask your MP
19 July 2010 - The Independent - Anger over school building cancellations
19 July 2010 - BBC news - Teachers protest over cuts to school building programme
19 July 2010 - Guardian - School building projects scrapped by constituency: full list
19 July 2010 - building.co.uk - Teachers and construction workers gather for BSF protest
19 July 2010 - BBC news - Teachers and parents demand retreat on school axe
16 July 2010 - TES - Commentary - Gove's mighty mess
16 July 2010 - TES - Editorial - Gove's BSF chop was mishandled, not a mistake
16 July 2010 - building.co.uk - BSF was not just about schools
13 July 2010 - building.co.uk - Hodge to head 'value for money' enquiry into BSF
13 July 2010 - BBC news - £260m 'wasted' in axing school building plans
13 July 2010 - Telegraph - Councils spend £160 million on paperwork for cancelled school building projects
13 July 2010 - Guardian - Gove under fire for £160m wasted on scrapped school buildings
12 July 2010 - Express - Gove grilled over school projects
12 July 2010 - Guardian - How come academies are still getting their new buildings?
12 July 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove embarrassed as he issues fifth school building list
11 July 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove urged to help most run-down schools
10 July 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove 'ignored official advice' in school building row
09 July 2010 - BBC news - Cameron says axing school buildings plan 'unpopular'
09 July 2010 - TES - £4bn saved in one swipe, but has Gove picked well with BSF?
08 July 2010 - BBC news - Gove apologises to council leaders over BSF list errors
08 July 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove attacked by parents, teachers and MPs over axed buildings
07 July 2010 - BBC news - Gove to apologise on school building list chaos
07 July 2010 - Guardian - Tory education cuts are a big mistake
07 July 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove apologises for school building cancellation errors
06 July 2010 - Daily Mail - Gove defends £55bn axe on school building by insisting 'sparkling' classrooms don't mean good education
06 July 2010 - BBC news - Follow the money on school building projects
06 July 2010 - The Guardian - Full list of scrapped school building projects
06 July 2010 - Flywheel - Building Schools for the Future: 5 Lessons for Future Researchers
06 July 2010 - building.co.uk - Cabe to axe staff in wake of BSF cull
05 July 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove: wasteful school building programme to be axed
05 July 2010 - Building.co.uk - Government to announce BSF cuts today
05 July 2010 - Telegraph - School buildings projects scrapped to save £5bn
05 July 2010 - BBC news - School buildings scheme scrapped
03 July 2010 - Telegraph - Building Schools for the Future plans to be scrapped
28 June 2010 - Wirral Globe - Past and present invited to say farewell to old Wirral school building
15 June 2010 - Local Government Lawyer - Where now for BSF?
07 June 2010 - BBC news - Spending cuts threaten plans to build new schools
29 May 2010 - BBC news - Free schools policy 'may hit building work'
15 May 2010 - Telegraph - £55bn school building programme could be cut
14 May 2010 - Guardian - £55bn school building plan faces axe to fund Swedish-style system
12 May 2010 - Flywheel - After the Election, What Next for UK Schools Capital Investment?
06 May 2010 - Building Design online - Conservatives attack architects working on Building Schools for the Future
04 May 2010 - The Telegraph - The future of schools
05 March 2010 - TES - As good as new
08 February 2010 - Local Government Chronicle - Tories would tie councils' hands on new schools
08 December 2009 - The Guardian - Building schools for the future - partnerships are key
08 December 2009 - The Guardian - Newly converted into classrooms
04 December 2009 - TES - Tories and Labour accuse each other over building scheme future
20 November 2009 - TES - Tories will savage building renewal
17 November 2009 - The Guardian - Good schools are made, not built
14 November 2009 - BBC News - Recession to change school design
03 November 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - Tories tipped to scale back BSF
08 September 2009 - Liverpool Echo -Government under fire 'Building Schools for the Future' programme
30 August 2009 - The Guardian - Cost of school rebuilding programme soars
12 August 2009 - The Guardian - School building scheme a sham – MPs
30 June 2009 - The Telegraph - Schools spending will rise despite recession, Ed Balls
12 June 2009 - The Guardian - Report accuses school quango of bullying local authorities
11 June 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - MPs voice new BSF fears
11 June 2009 - Telegraph - More than £11m 'wasted' on consultants as MPs condemn school build plans
11 June 2009 - The Guardian - Poor planning scuppered schools building programme, say MPs
21 May 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - Delays warning over school partnerships
12 May 2009 - The Guardian - Architects to vet new school designs
30 April 2009 - The Telegraph - Billions of pounds earmarked for education 'not being spent'
23 April 2009 - Wirral Globe - Woodchurch High pupils to take part in turf-cutting ceremony for their new £26m Wirral school
07 April 2009 - DCSF News - Building Schools for the Future
05 March 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - BSF verdict: Could do better
24 February 2009 - The Guardian - Take a stand now, or your schools may fall on your heads
23 February 2009 - The Telegraph - 20,000 new apprenticeships by 2010
19 February 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - Pooling skills ‘will boost BSF’
17 February 2009 - The Guardian - Deal, or no deal Why, in order to get up-to-date buildings, must schools throw out excellent ICT systems?
12 February 2009 - Local Government Chronicle - BSF ‘£10bn over budget and late’
12 February 2009 - National Audit Office - The Building Schools for the Future Programme: renewing the secondary school estate
12 February 2009 - The Telegraph - School building plan is 'shambolic' and £10bn over budget
12 February 2009 - The Guardian - Cost of schools building project up by £10bn, says watchdog
12 February 2009 - 24dash.com - Government's Building Schools for the Future programme '£10 billion over budget' - report
06 February 2009 - RM plc - Another BSF One-School Pathfinder
21 January 2009 - The Guardian - School building project could grind to a halt
20 January 2009 - The Guardian - Pay schools to let teachers advise on new buildings, says report
07 January 2009 - The Guardian - Cuts to cause 'austere' future for schools
19 December 2008 - The Telegraph - Airtight classrooms causing pupils to nod off
09 December 2008 - The Guardian - Cut the strings to school design tie-ins
01 December 2008 - PWC LLP report - Evaluation of Building Schools for the Future – 2nd Annual Report
25 November 2008 - CABE Report - New-build secondary school for 1,360 students. Designed by BDP
24 November 2008 - The Guardian - Darling brings forward school building cash
20 October 2008 - The Telegraph - Financial crisis: Alistair Darling vows major building projects will still go ahead
13 October 2008 - The Telegraph - School buildings 'delayed by up to two years'
21 September 2008 - The Guardian - Teachers demand a greater voice in design of schools
18 September 2008 - The Guardian - Design threshold set for new secondary schools
20 August 2008 - Liverpool Echo - High hopes for £125m schools in Sefton
28 July 2008 - The Telegraph - Building Schools for the Future scheme is behind schedule
21 July 2008 - The Guardian - £35bn revamp will produce generation of mediocre schools
21 July 2008 - The Telegraph - New school building designs are sub-standard
18 March 2008 - The Telegraph - Staff hit out at 'unfit' school buildings
02 March 2008 - The Telegraph - Property restoration: School conversion by the book
06 January 2008 - The Telegraph - Popular schools face closure in £45bn scheme
14 October 2007 - The Telegraph - £45bn building programme under review
09 August 2007 - The Telegraph - School building PFIs will cost taxpayer billions
29 April 2007 - The Telegraph - Super-school pupils 'will be disaffected'
16 January 2007 - Guardian - Labour's £45bn school building plan stalls
14 November 2006 - Wirral Globe - £15m to gradually rebuild a school
02 March 2005 - The Telegraph - Pupils teach architects a lesson
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Free Schools and Academies
08 November 2011 - Liverpool Echo - Free iPods for pupils as Wallasey secondary The Oldershaw becomes an academy
17 June 2011 - TES - Union warning on academy switch
17 June 2011 - TES - Gove forces academy switch on primaries
16 June 2011 - BBC news - Worst-performing primaries in England become academies
16 June 2011 - BBC news - Mistakes 'mean some academies overpaid or underpaid'
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10 June 2011 - TES - Cash conundrum at the heart of free schools
20 May 2011 - TES - Academies handed £800m for rebuilds
20 May 2011 - TES - Editorial - With the oddballs off-limits, free schools are beginning to look distinctly normal
20 May 2011 - TES - Gove talks up perks of academy staff
29 April 2011 - TES - Time is running out for defence of indefensible
25 April 2011 - BBC news - Teachers' union: Support staff taking too many lessons
24 April 2011 - BBC news - NUT teachers' union steps up academies battle
22 April 2011 - TES - Academies: are they just white elephants?
15 April 2011 - TES - Editorial - The battle against academies was never about principle. And now dogma has had its day
25 March 2011 - BBC news - 'Free school' application rules
21 March 2011 - Local Schools Network - It’s happening already — the Free Schools policy is causing admissions chaos
18 March 2011 - Telegraph - Headmaster's voice: Are academies and free schools right for our state sector?
17 March 2011 - Independent - The free school revolution: Behind the scenes at the first parent-led secondary
17 March 2011 - Local Schools Network - West London Free School Curriculum “not appropriate for all children”
25 February 2011 - PfS - Free School kit (map)
25 February 2011 - TES - Major LA pins hopes on free schools in face of rising primary population
25 February 2011 - TES - Proposed free school flouted admission rules
25 February 2011 - TES - Gove's favoured academies are failing to meet his own standards
18 February 2011 - TES - Ofsted chair and academy adviser, but DfE denies conflict of interest for Morgan
18 February 2011 - The Independent - Teachers 'will face faith discrimination'
18 February 2011 - CYP now - Government denies claim academies could violate EU employment law
18 February 2011 - TES - Social class still dictates kids' success - study
18 February 2011 - TES - Secularists look to EU to rule on academy conversions
11 February 2011 - TES - Free schools will stay 'minor' without for-profit providers, says chair of key MPs' committee
11 February 2011 - TES - SEN schools take 'leap of faith' with academy bids
07 February 2011 - BBC news - Free school funding plans 'lack transparency'
06 February 2011 - BBC news - Free schools 'divisive' says Manchester anti-extremism tsar
31 January 2011 - Guardian - Academies expansion is worrying for deaf pupils
31 January 2011 - CYP now - Gove confirms eight free schools
31 January 2011 - Guardian - Extra money for free schools that admit poorer pupils
28 January 2011 - TES - MPs warn of academies' 'financial instability'
28 January 2011 - BBC news - New schools 'should be academies' says Michael Gove
28 January 2011 - Telegraph - More parents applying to open 'free schools'
28 January 2011 - TES - Academies outperformed on EBac
27 January 2011 - BBC news - Academies 'lack proper financial controls', MPs warn
27 January 2011 - Telegraph - MPs warn over expansion of academy schools
24 January 2011 - Telegraph - Councils 'face huge cuts to fund academies expansion'
24 January 2011 - LGA - Councils set to have funding cut to pay for academy schools
21 January 2011 - TES - PM hails 16-19 free schools 'incentive'
14 January 2011 - TES - Academy, academy, there's nothing like an academy
14 January 2011 - TES - Signing up with unions thwarts your academy dreams, heads told
04 January 2011 - Guardian - Is the Canadian model right for UK schools?
03 January 2011 - BBC news - Free schools 'not wanted' say teachers
17 December 2010 - TES - The same but different
10 December 2010 - TES - Pisa rejects claim that competition raises results
10 December 2010 - TES - The Issue - Academy status
07 December 2010 - Guardian - Fight Gove's big sell-off of public education
03 December 2010 - TES - Swedish lesson: free schools haven't delivered diversity
02 December 2010 - BBC news - School reforms 'could lead to more segregation'
30 November 2010 - Guardian - Gove's schools policy threatens the whole education service
24 November 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove's education reform: 400 schools could be taken over
23 November 2010 - CYP now - Civil servant defends government's decision to fund the New Schools Network
23 November 2010 - Telegraph - Ofsted: academies 'performing worse than other schools'
23 November 2010 - CYP now - PRU academy status poses problems
22 November 2010 - BBC news - City academy apologises over disabled girl rejection
20 November 2010 - Guardian - Why we are setting up a free school
19 November 2010 - TES - Ka-ching! Free-school cash could bring elites into town
19 November 2010 - TES - First independent gets DfE green light to return to state sector as free school
17 November 2010 - CYP now - Gove announces academies expansion
08 November 2010 - CYP now - Expansion of free school programme would bolster teaching standards, says Reform
01 November 2010 - CEP - Academy Schools: Who benefits?
29 October 2010 - TES - Gove accused of meddling as he backs academy chain's 'hostile' bid
27 October 2010 - Wirral News - What could be Wirral’s first ‘free school’ looks to attract pupil interest
25 October 2010 - Guardian - Councils revolt against free schools
22 October 2010 - TES - Global giant Gems joins the gold rush for academy profits
18 October 2010 - Guardian - Can Gove's American dream work here?
15 October 2010 - TES - Burnham to cast shadow over new breed of academies
15 October 2010 - TES - The world must not go independent crazy, says Ofsted chief
15 October 2010 - TES - Academy sponsor banned from expansion takes over school chain
14 October 2010 - The Independent - The price of freedom: 'Even my mother-in-law opposed my plan to set up a 'free' secondary'
12 October 2010 - Guardian - For schools and headteachers, autonomy can lead to disaster
12 October 2010 - Guardian - True parent power means sticking by your local school
08 October 2010 - building.co.uk - First free school pupils face prefab classrooms
07 October 2010 - CYP now - Government policies will create 'apartheid in our schools', says union chief
06 October 2010 - Guardian - Most of Gove's free schools behind schedule
05 October 2010 - BBC news - Academies call for new school building programme
05 October 2010 - CYP now - Conservative Conference 2010: Academies to open in Department for Education buildings
04 October 2010 - CYP now - Majority of London parents do not want to establish or run free schools
03 October 2010 - TES - Swedish lesson: free schools haven't delivered diversity
03 October 2010 - TES - Pupil referral units must compete with academies
28 September 2010 - CYP now - Labour Conference 2010: Coalition has got academies policy wrong, says RSA director
28 September 2010 - CYP now - Free schools charity faces probe over impartiality
28 September 2010 - Guardian - Free schools might not use qualified teachers
27 September 2010 - Guardian - Pupils 'should be sent to private instead of free schools'
27 September 2010 - Guardian - Coalition's first academies reveal how they plan to spend extra income
24 September 2010 - TES - Focus on 'original' academies not conversions, say major sponsors
20 September 2010 - NUT - Liberal Democrats reject Academies and Free Schools
17 September 2010 - TES - Nearly half of secondary schools 'will consider academy status'
14 September 2010 - Guardian - We have the right to know everything about free schools
10 September 2010 - TES - Academies 'widen the gap' between rich and poor
10 September 2010 - BBC news - Spending watchdog warns over academies' finances
06 September 2010 - BBC news - First 16 'free schools' details set out
02 September 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove: worst primary schools 'will become academies'
02 September 2010 - The Independent - Gove's schools revolution begins with a whimper
01 September 2010 - NUT - School Funding in England Free Schools – Funding issues
01 September 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove defends academies plan
01 September 2010 - The Independent - Academies plan a 'failure', say teachers
01 September 2010 - CYP now - NUT brands academy scheme disappointing as term begins
01 September 2010 - Guardian - 142 schools to convert to academies this school year
31 August 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove's odd schools obsession (comment)
27 August 2010 - TES - College-backed academies triumph in GCSE results
27 August 2010 - BBC news - Barnardo's calls for fairer school admissions
25 August 2010 - The Independent - School that refused to become academy is most improved
20 August 2010 - TES - Heads forsake the beach to fret about switch to academy status
18 August 2010 - Guardian - Academies urged to cut cost of new school uniforms
05 August 2010 - CYP now - Free schools model sparks interest of the Premier League
05 August 2010 - The Independent - Lessons learned: What can the successes – and failures – of the largest sponsor teach us about the academies programme?
02 August 2010 - building.co.uk - Gove accused of exaggerating free school interest
01 August 2010 - Express - Only 62 applications for 'free schools'
30 July 2010 - CYP now - Gove defends academies claims after only 153 schools apply for the status
30 July 2010 - Liverpool Echo - Birkenhead school the only one in Merseyside to apply to become academy
29 July 2010 - BBC news - Academy applications from 150 top schools
29 July 2010 - Telegraph - Coalition 'misled public' over academies
28 July 2010 - BBC news - Gove says he is open to atheist-run free schools
26 July 2010 - BBC news - MPs pass law paving way for school shake-up in England
25 July 2010 - Express - Michael Gove tells parents how to set up schools
22 July 2010 - BBC news - Free schools 'could widen social divide'
21 July 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove's schools could improve education for all children (comment)
21 July 2010 - Guardian - 'Free' schools may widen social gap
20 July 2010 - Local Government Chronicle - Academies Bill will help poorest - Gove
20 July 2010 - The Independent - Tories use terror laws to rush Academies Bill through House
19 July 2010 - Express - Gove backing new Academy reforms
19 July 2010 - The Independent - Gove hoping to push through academies bill
19 July 2010 - BBC news -'Ample time' for academies Bill, says Michael Gove
19 July 2010 - CEP Briefing - A Note on Academy School Policy
19 July 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove defends academies push
19 July 2010 - Guardian - Gove seeks to ram academies bill through parliament
18 July 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove accused of rushing in school reforms
16 July 2010 - Telegraph - Academies 'fail to teach traditional subjects'
16 July 2010 - TES - The free-school pioneers who see only opportunity in our inner cities
16 July 2010 - TES - 'Force us down academy route and I'll quit': threat from the head of a leading state secondary
16 July 2010 - TES - Reform rushed through using anti-terror rules
16 July 2010 - TES - Academies behind rest of state sector in history exam entries
15 July 2010 - building.co.uk - Firms scramble to win work on Tories' free schools initiative
14 July 2010 - Local Government Lawyer - The Academies Bill – The Finer Details
14 July 2010 - BBC news - Shops into schools in five months
12 July 2010 - Telegraph - Privileged schools try to hijack academy system, warns think tank
09 July 2010 - TES - Ministers force academies to declare exam entries
07 July 2010 - LGA - Local freedom or Central Control?
02 July 2010 - BBC news - Academies' success questioned over vocational subjects
02 July 2010 - TES - Wealthy to dominate academies
02 July 2010 - TES - Academies: an issue that's not clear cut
02 July 2010 - TES - Bill has 'hallmarks of Germany in the 1930s'
02 July 2010 - TES - Why we must stop this 'preposterous' bill (comment)
02 July 2010 - Telegraph - Academies 'avoiding tough qualifications'
02 July 2010 - TES - Less than 50% of academies' passes are academic
01 July 2010 - NUT - Free schools: The Evidence
29 June 2010 - CYP now - Gove's free schools under the microscope
29 June 2010 - Telegraph - Coalition 'misled public' over academies
25 June 2010 - TES - Academies veer towards vocational courses
24 June 2010 - BBC news - Governors warn against academies rush
23 June 2010 - BBC news - Grammars are advised against becoming academies
23 June 2010 - The Independent - Sweden's free schools model has 'limited impact'
22 June 2010 - Local Government Lawyer - Preparing for academies and free schools
19 June 2010 - Daily Mail - Office blocks and hospitals could be turned into schools: Law change paves way for parent power
18 June 2010 - BBC news - Teachers are half of free school inquiries
18 June 2010 - BBC news - Free schools: for and against
18 June 2010 - BBC news - Government sets out how to establish 'free schools'
18 June 2010 - Local Government Lawyer - Firing the gun on free schools
18 June 2010 - Guardian - Michael Gove ushers free schools into shops and houses
18 June 2010 - BBC news - Free schools could be set up in shops and houses - Gove
18 June 2010 - C4 News - Funding questions over free schools scheme
18 June 2010 - Telegraph - Houses and shops to become 'free schools' under Government plans
15 June 2010 - Local Government Lawyer - A new future for education
14 June 2010 - Local Government Chronicle - New academies 'could get less cash' than expected
11 June 2010 - BBC news - Academy schools warning over special needs provision
11 June 2010 - TES - Academies expansion in jeopardy
02 June 2010 - Labour List - Replacing schools of the future with 'free schools' - where's the fairness in that?
01 June 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove: firms free to make profits from academies
30 May 2010 - Mirror - Flagship Tory free schools scheme condemned by Swedish education minister Bertil Ostberg
30 May 2010 - The Times - Free schools will mean better schools. Nothing unfair in that
28 May 2010 - TES - 'Outstanding' schools inspection exemption
28 May 2010 - Telegraph - Blow to government as academy is 'failed'
28 May 2010 - TES - Academies Bill paves the way for greater freedoms
28 May 2010 - TES - Working in an academy
27 May 2010 - Guardian - Academies bill is about centralisation not empowerment (comment)
27 May 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove: academies will be norm in England
26 May 2010 - Telegraph - Michael Gove invites schools to become academies
26 May 2010 - BBC news - What will make a school 'free'?
26 May 2010 - BBC news - Schools are promised an academies 'revolution'
25 May 2010 - Guardian - Parents wanting to start 'free schools' have great hopes of the new government
25 May 2010 - BBC news - Opt-out offer for outstanding schools
21 May 2010 - TES - Profit-maker seeks to be 'major player' in Gove's vision of autonomy
21 May 2010 - TES - Call for FoI to be extended to academies as research reveals wide use of 'pseudo' courses
14 May 2010 - Guardian - A disturbing new schools policy (comment)
05 May 2010 - The Guardian - Why the free market can't fix the equality gap
02 May 2010 - The Guardian - Don't trust the Conservative education policy – they want to implement our Swedish failures
30 April 2010 - TES - Teachers lead a third of groups seeking to run Tories' free schools
27 April 2010 - The Guardian - Tory free schools will spread inequality
26 April 2010 - The Guardian - Conservatives under fire amid claims school plan will exclude poor parents
26 April 2010 - BBC news - Tories' warning on 'free schools'
23 April 2010 - TES - Heads rush for Tory freedoms' but is it really safe to cross over?
23 April 2010 - TES - Academy numbers would triple under Tories
20 April 2010 - The Independent - Michael Gove explains his plans for Britains schools
16 April 2010 - TES - Why parent-run schools are my idea of hell (comment)
15 April 2010 - suite101.com - Should the UK Adopt Plans for Swedish-Style Free Schools?
09 April 2010 - The Independent - Tories try to harness parent power
09 April 2010 - TES - Co-operative schools? The reality is a fright
12 March 2010 - TES - Swedish smiles turn sour as rift widens where equity once ruled
07 March 2010 - The Guardian - Conservatives aim to lure private schools into state system
05 March 2010 - TES - 'Secretive', 'illogical': procedure for vetting academy sponsors damned
03 March 2010 - The Telegraph - New dreams, new schools
01 March 2010 - The Guardian - Gove promises best schools an Ofsted-free future
26 February 2010 - TES - These children are at primary, but academy heads want to take over their education
18 February 2010 - BBC new - Swedish schools 'will make little difference'
18 February 2010 - The Independent - Tories' Swedish schools plan 'will not work'
05 February 2010 - Local Government Chronicle - Academies urge ICGSE introduction
04 February 2010 - Telegraph - Academies 'should have more freedom'
29 January 2010 - TES - The debate: Should parents be encouraged to set up schools?
24 January 2010 - Guardian - Should parents set up their own state schools? Discuss
06 January 2010 - BBC news - One in 10 secondary schools is now an academy
01 January 2010 - DfE - Academies Bill Impact Assessment
14 December 2009 - The Guardian - Is academy school success just a sham?
04 June 2009 - Telegraph - Flagship Labour academies 'no better than ordinary schools'
25 April 2009 - Guardian - Tories plan to create thousands of primary academies
03 April 2009 - TES - Taking the Eden out of Sweden
24 February 2009 - Telegraph - Academy schools are under threat
27 November 2008 - The Guardian - Despite sponsors and high pay for teachers, there is no 'academy effect'
03 October 2008 - TES - Tory party rethinks 'free-school' proposals
01 October 2008 - The Independent - The Big Question: What is the Swedish schools model, and can UK education learn from it?
26 September 2008 - TES - Free schools - but someone still has to pay
13 June 2008 - TES - Swedish system will be divisive in UK, say critics
13 June 2008 - TES - A pay rise? That depends on your pupils
13 June 2008 - TES - Here come the schools without classrooms
04 April 2008 - TES - Swedes bring personal touch to academies
23 March 2007 - TES - Academies threatened by legal challenges
30 November 2006 - Local Government Association - LGA responds to government announcement on academy schools
28 July 2006 - TES - Mother loses court battle to block academy
19 May 2006 - TES - Mother to fight academy in court
07 April 2006 - TES - Human rights challenge to new academy
06 January 2006 - TES - Doubts over academies grow
24 September 1999 - TES - Not-so free schools get public cash
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Other News Items
17 June 2011 - TES - Inefficient school sixth-forms should be closed, MPs told
17 March 2011 - Wirral Globe - Wirral students to follow the Inca Trail for Hoylake Cottage
06 February 2011 - Guardian - Coalition's pupil premium plan 'could widen gap between rich and poor'
04 January 2011 - Wirral Globe - Flu virus claims life of gifted Wirral student
13 December 2010 - BBC news - Schools spending 'will not rise in real terms'
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