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Budget 2016: highly questionable whether the academisation of all schools is good policy

16 March 2016

All schools will become academies, announced George Osborne in his 2016 Budget speech. But the impact of such mass rollout on students' performance is uncertain, explain Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin.

This article was published by the LSE British Politics and Policy blog on March 16, 2016
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Related publications
'Academies 2: the New Batch', Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1370, September 2015
'The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education', Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1368, August 2015
Academy schools and pupil outcomes, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin. Article in CentrePiece Volume 20, Issue 2 Autumn 2015

Related links
Andrew Eyles webpage
Stephen Machin webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage

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