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Welcome to school Murdoch?
Murdoch company ‘set to sponsor academy’

By politics.co.uk staff Rupert Murdoch’s News International may sponsor a city academy, according to media reports. The Observer reported this morning that News International executives had discussed sponsoring a school near their headquarters in east London. The move would raise serious concerns among Labour MPs in Westminster about the media mogul’s influence reaching the classroom…. Read more »

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Michael Gove's education reforms have met with stumbling blocks
Gove’s academies ‘poor value for money’

by Peter Wozniak The coalition’s attempts to accelerate the academies programme are at risk of being poor value for money, the National Audit Office (NAO) has claimed. Its report out today suggests that the existing academies started under the previous government have generally been successful in improving standards, though this improvement is mainly coming from… Read more »