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What I think has actually happened is this and if anyone knows any different then please feel free to enlighten me.

Thanks to commenter Eric I took a tootle over to TES jobs and lo and behold I found...

It now looks like the wheels are coming off all across the Labour Governments education system, if this BBC story is to be trusted.

I am not convinced that the BBC is an impartial news service these days but if it has been cleared to report on this there has to be some truth in it.

Having now read this document available on the Academy Company website it is clear in my mind that this consultation is simply a PR exercise for a single site Academy.

Have a read for yourself and see what conclusion you come to.

PS
MC2 and Mouchel are nowhere near as good as concocting a biased consultation document as Cumbria County Council and CN Group Research are!

To save the Labour diploma.

Turns out that maybe, just maybe the Diplomas are not all that Ed Balls and Co have said they are "the qualification of choice."
Universities don't like them.
Business doesn't like them.
Even the kids don't like them.
But none of that opinion was ever going to sway Ed Balls.

What has become clear from the comments on the MC2 Have Given Up post is that there are a lot of disgruntled people wanting to be heard.
I have also asked for positives and none have been forthcoming. So I have looked slightly further afield to see how another Cumbrian Academy, Richard Rose Central, is doing and straight away you can see a big difference in approach.

It's amazing what you can find out on this interweb thingy. There is all manner of information available even if it's found by some seemingly obscure routes.

I was reading through the proposed changes to education in the UK contained within the Education Bill announced in the Queens speech. Much of it is hot air and I doubt any of it will actually become law unless the entire population sit on their hands at the next election and Blinky, Banana Boy, El Gordo and co get back in. However what was really annoying is that Ed Balls has accepted Graham Badman's fatally flawed review of home education chapter and verse even though the results of the select committees investigation haven't been published yet!

Is an insult to the pigs!
The humans with their noses in the trough are far worse than any pig.

Furness Academy like all it's sister Academies exists today because some grinning mulit-millionaire born again Catholic listened to people like this man. Graham McAvoy.

Mr McAvoy is the 'designer' of the Academy school and surprise, surprise he is now a millionaire after 'advising' the DCSF and the DCSF approved sponsors in 30 Academy projects How To Open An Academy. Who pays?

Sadly it would seem so.
It has missed every single target it has been set and missed every single target it has set itself.

It's been a very quiet week Academy wise other than yet more evidence that it is struggling to implement the new way of carrying out their Duty of Care. The only other thing of note to emerge is the strong rumour that a certain vice-principal may well be going after the headship at Dowdales when Mrs Moffat retires. If Mr X' would care to knock this one on the head please contact me by e-mail at the usual address.

Vickerstown Junior school is going to be demolished and replaced with a state of the art 21st century primary learning environment otherwise known as a 'new school'. What this means for the other junior schools in it's vicinity is anyones guess because Moira isn't saying.
So that leaves us time to have a look at other 'Education Matters' such as the iconic Furness College new build,