As the momentum grows towards a more fragmented education service, mixing academy chains, standalone academies, a handful of Free schools, community, voluntary aided and all other species, the obsession with structures and process has amost completely overwhelmed the all-important sense of purpose. The introduction of market forces has coincided with opportunities for the larger egos of education to dominate discussion, producing an oppressive and almost bullying climate which brooks no opposition. It will be interesting to see if the party conference season manages to produce some measured reflection on this revolution, in the same way that there has been an increasingly vocal and considered debate around new structures for health provision.
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