LES "MODÈLES"
ANGLO-SAXONS :
(libertés, justice,
système scolaire, éducatif, marché de l'éducation,
homeschooling...aux USA et en Angleterre)
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Angleterre
L'opinion d'un ancien banquier de la City,
journaliste
(Financial Times, the Far Eastern Economic Review...):
"Les
enfants sont mieux éduqués à la maison"
Les
écoles anglaises pourront être gérées par des
"trusts".
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Le "modèle" anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste... En
Grande Bretagne, modèle, patrie, phare, Paradise, Eden,
leader
du home schooling en Europe,
One in four parents
who home-educate children
according to inspectors, prompting
calls for a change in the law."
provides little or no teaching. "AS MANY as 35,000 "home-schooled" children in England are not receiving even a basic education from their parents,
Beuark.
AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... |
Angleterre
:
Rentrée scolaire 2008 à l'anglaise : Il manque 1000 directeurs d'écoles. Recrutés par de coûteuses agences privées, mais sur fonds publics, les plus "performants" filent à l'anglaise, pour prendre la direction de l'une des "academies", écoles-pilotes à petits effectifs, sponsorisées par de grosses entreprises. Et avec un salaire deux fois plus élevé que dans une école "ordinaire" ... à gros effectifs ! D'où l'hémorragie.
Schools in crisis hunt for 1,000 new heads ·Teachers urge action on unfilled posts
Teachers' leaders alarmed by the growing number of vacancies in both primary and secondary schools have told ministers in the Department for Children, Schools and Families they must act now to avert a potential disaster. The concern comes as it emerges that the government has drawn up a secret list of heads and senior teachers, screened and approved, who will quit their jobs to help run its flagship academies when positions arise. Headteachers are furious about the move, which they say exacerbates the crisis for other schools. 'It's a tremendous own goal by the DCSF to dilute the availability of good headteachers,' said Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, has warned that almost half the leadership workforce is due to leave within the next few years. He has written to the Training and Development Agency for Schools calling for urgent action. 'Arguably the key objective for the DCSF and its agencies is the retention, supply and recruitment of headteachers,' he wrote. Brookes pointed out that applications for the post of headteacher were at an 'all-time low' in primary and special schools and revealed that between 600 and 1,000 schools were now running without permanent leadership teams. New figures released later this month will show a sharp increase in the number of secondary schools forced to rely on temporary heads while they readvertise the posts - a problem once confined to primary schools. Mike Stewart, headteacher of Westlands school in Torbay, Devon, and chair of the NAHT's secondary committee, said staff who would once have wanted to become heads were choosing not to because of rising levels of stress. 'Schools are now compared using 173 ranking methods - and if it is at the bottom on one of them the headteacher is sacked,' said Stewart. 'It's crackpot.' He argued that lots of schools now had to advertise two or three times for a headteacher - something that would have been 'unheard of' five or six years ago. Governors at schools based in areas where academies are being built are particularly concerned about their staff being 'lured' away by six-figure salary offers that they cannot match. They have reacted with anger to the news that the government has paid Veredus, a management recruitment agency, to headhunt the most successful heads and senior teachers, interview and screen them, and then place their names on a list for academies. Other schools are not allowed access to the information. A headteacher who has been approached several times said 'astronomical' salaries of up to £130,000 were being offered to run academies smaller than the large comprehensives which pay around £75,000 to £80,000. Secrecy surrounds the list of candidates, who are not obliged to tell their governing bodies of their intentions. Henry Stewart, chair of governors at Stoke Newington School in Hackney, east London, where a number of academies have been built, said it was not a 'level playing field'. He lost a headteacher through the Veredus system. 'My previous head told me he had been through the process and I expect most ambitious heads have,' said Stewart. 'When I rang Veredus to ask if they would circulate my headship they said, "No, it is only for academies". We would have to pay £20,000 for their services.' Fiona Millar, the education campaigner and former aide to Cherie Blair, said: 'The department should be helping all schools to find headteachers.' The doubling of the government's target for academies, now 400 by 2011, has resulted in a rush of adverts for principals to run them and skewed the recruitment market, said John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders. Peter Walsh, the head of Forest Hill boys' school, a performing arts college in south east London, said he has been approached by recruiters several times to run an academy, the last time by Veredus last week. 'The money they are offering - figures of £120,000 and £130,000 - is totally out of proportion when you think that it comes out of the pockets of the pupils,' he says. The DCSF described the pool as 'a list of those
who expressed an interest in becoming a principal who are informed of vacancies
in academies as and when they arise'.
Since 2000, academy in England can mean a type of secondary school which is independent but publicly funded and publicly run. As such, academies are outside the control of the Local Authorities in which they are situated. This type of school was known as a city academy for the first few years, but the term was changed to "academy" by an amendment in the Education Act 2002 City academies were legally created by the Learning and Skills Act 2000, which amended the section of the Education Act 1996 relating to City Technology Colleges. They were first announced in a speech by David Blunkett, then Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in 2000. One of the chief architects of the policy was Andrew Adonis (now Lord Adonis, a junior Minister at the Department for Education and Skills) in his capacity as education advisor to the Prime Minister in the late 1990s. Academies are intended to address the problem of historic and entrenched failure within English schools with low academic achievement, or schools situated in communities with little or no academic aspirations. Often these schools have been placed in "special measures", a term denoting a school that is "failing or likely to fail to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education" Whilst still in the fairly early stage of development (although there are over a hundred academies, only a handful have been open for more than four years), the emerging evidence so far is positive, with substantial rises in attainment results at Key Stage 3 and GCSE occurring each year. Academies are currently subject to an independent five-year evaluation by the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers who have to date published three annual reports consisting of both "hard" and "soft" data concerning the open academies. In the Department for Education and Skills' Five Year Strategy (published
in 2004), the Government committed to there being 200 academies open or
in development by 2010.
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Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
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| Le
nouveau sirop-typhon : déplacements de populations ? chèque-éducation
? ou non-scolarisation ? |
| Pluralisme
scolaire et "éducation alternative" | Jaune
devant, marron derrière : du PQ pour le Q.I. |
| Le
lycée "expérimental" de Saint-Nazaire |
Le
collège-lycée "expérimental" de Caen-Hérouville|
| L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Freinet
dans (?) le système "éducatif" (?) |
| Changer
l'école | Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop !|
L'école
Vitruve |
| Colloque
Freinet à ... Londres | Des
écoles publiques "expérimentales" |
| 68
- 98 : les 30 P-l-eureuses | Et
l'horreur éducative ? |