The Independent:
Daily catch-up: in other, non-Corbyn, news, here be idiots and other research findings
14 August 2015
More evidence of the success of the academy schools programme was published yesterday. A new paper by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE finds that ''the first round of academy conversions that took place in the 2000s generated significant improvements in the quality of pupil intake and in pupil performance''.
This article was published online by The Independent on August 14, 2015
Link to article here
Related publications
'The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education', Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1368, August 2015
Related links
Andrew Eyles webpage
Stephen Machin webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage