Policy
Roy Hattersley ("Hidden agenda", The Guardian 13/07/04), for example, notes a couple of important criticisms:
"The idea of specialist schools - the opportunity for pupils and parents to choose a school that places special emphasis on an individual subject - only works in cities where several alternatives are within easy reach. County schools...have avoided changing their status because of the fear identification with a single discipline would destroy their relationship with some students...
Creating 200 academies is more difficult for egalitarians to evaluate. The complaint against them was that they suck resources from other comprehensive schools".