UK GOVERNMENT PLANS TO TURN SCHOOLS INTO ACADEMIES

The schools minister Nick Gibb has been heckled by teachers as he defended government plans to turn all schools in England into academies.

To jeers of "rubbish", Mr Gibb told the Association of Teachers a fully academised education system would be "profession led".
The schools minister was taking part in a question an answer session at the ATL's annual conference in Liverpool.
Mr Gibb said schools that had already become academies had flourished.
But his comments failed to win over his audience.
Under the plans almost 17,000 schools which have not already converted to academy status - mostly primaries - must do so by 2020 or have committed to do so by 2022.

The plan has drawn criticism from teachers, unions and Tory local councillors.
Asked to defend it, Mr Gibb said: "I'm spending time talking to colleagues who have expressed a concern.
"But the whole academies programme is about having a profession-led system, so that the profession is in charge and not local authority officials. That's the system we're moving to.
"If you talk to head teachers who become heads of academies, they have flourished."
One audience member shouted "rubbish" while a handful of others jeered and some laughed at the minister's suggestions.
At its conference over Easter, the National Union of Teachers voted to ballot for strike action over the academies plan.
But, speaking at the NASUWT conference over Easter, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan ruled out a change of heart on the government's education reforms.
Labour has said its own analysis of official figures suggests the plan could cost £1.3bn with a shortfall in funding over £1.1bn - a suggestion dismissed by the government as "completely untrue".

source:  BBC News