The academies pledge will be part of a youth strategy to be unveiled in November. “I am afraid I can’t promise that they will all teach Latin and Greek, though it won’t be for want of trying,” he said on Sunday. “But I hope they will offer an educational and vocational discipline that is lacking in so many of our schools.”
Johnson hailed shadow children’s secretary Michael Gove’s bid to usher in 5,000 state-funded independent schools, modelled on a scheme in Sweden. He said: “I welcome the Gove’s radical new thinking about education and we will change London’s planning policies to help the supply of new schools.”
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