Poll demonstrates opposition to education reforms (1)

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Poll demonstrates opposition to education reforms
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• Councils should keep responsibilities over
  schools and that teaching profession requires
  dedicated training, the majority says
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• Teaching unions assembling for their annual
  Easter conferences will be emboldened by the
  results of the Guardian/ICM poll suggesting
  strong public opposition to planks of Michael
  Gove's education reforms.
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• The chief single structural modify to English
  education since the coalition came to power has
  been the speedy conversion of secondary
  schools to semi-independent academies.

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• There has been comparatively modest opposition at
  Westminster, not slightest for the reason that
  New Labour initially invented the schools. These
  are independent from local authorities while
  being financed through private contracts.
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• Although poll uncovers that the voters are not
  convinced only 32 say that "it is better for
  schools to become academies, and cut free of
  local councils".
• On the contrary, a majority of 57 states that
  councils have a significant educational role, in
  addition to "should keep responsibilities in
  relation to schools".

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• Academies are typically strongly opposed by the
  oldest, which voters over 65, 63 believe it
  would be improved if councils kept their
  responsibilities, however Gove can relax from a
  fair division from young people 48 of the
  under-25s see town halls as having an important
  role, as against 47 who would rather see schools
  cutting loose.
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• Gove will be evenly happy that Conservative
  voters are at the back of the stampede to academy
  conversion by 56 to 38 they want councils to
  get out of the way. There is a clear majority
  other than amongst voters of all other stripes
  68 of

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• Labour supporters, 58 of Lib Dems and 58 of
  Ukip supporters as well for councils retaining
  their responsibilities towards schools.
• "Effective implementation and not permanent
  revolution" was what the ATL union's conference
  in Manchester that schools needed said the poll
  came as David Laws, the Lib Dem schools minister.
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• In a finely concealed disapproval of Gove, Laws
  said he understood the burden that the rapid pace
  of change

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• in education policy has placed on teachers,
  adding that "some politicians seek consensus, and
  others prefer their "dividing lines" they
  search out controversy and seek to perpetuate
  it."
• Policy change was inevitable when new governments
  come to power after long periods of single party
  government, he said, but "there is a balance to
  be struck between governments having the right to
  introduce new policies for which they have a
  democratic mandate, and the need to avoid an
  excessive politicisation of key aspects of
  education policy."
• Gove's characteristic bends on the academy idea
  is the free school.

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• This rule is yet less popular compared to the
  general move towards academy status overall 63
  of voters say that "teaching is a profession
  which requires dedicated training", nearly twice
  as many as the 33 who say "people with different
  career backgrounds should be welcomed into the
  classroom, to expand the teaching talent pool".
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• REFERENCES
• http//www.goodreads.com/group/show/124683-clinica
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• http//ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1080710
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