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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