RSS Feed
� April 4, 2007 - Arms industry to run UK schools

Francis Beckett and Peter KingstonIn the Cumbrian town of Barrow-in-Furness, we hear, two specialist schools and a community comprehensive with an excellent Ofsted record are to be closed, forcing parents to send their children to a new school owned and managed by an international arms company. The council plans to close all three secondary schools in the main part of the town and replace them with a new academy or trust school for more than 2,000 pupils. The only remaining school will be Roman Catholic. The sponsor will be BAE Systems, whose shipyard dominates the economy of the town. BAE Systems owes the prime minister. Tony Blair is determined to press ahead with Trident and BAE Systems will almost certainly get the work. That's worth an academy, any day.
Guardian source
|
|
|