Debate about the degree to which English education is being privatised:

Debate about the degree to which English education is being privatised:


The Guardian's original piece by Seumus Milne: Crony capitalism feeds the corporate plan for schools (February 2012).
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/14/crony-capitalism-corporate-schools?commentpage=all#start-of-comments 

Followed, the morning it was published, by a response from Toby Young in the Telegraph:Left-wing journalist gets almost every fact wrong in hysterical attack on Michael Gove.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100137539/left-wing-journalist-gets-almost-every-fact-wrong-in-hysterical-attack-on-michael-gove/

And then followed up by Janet Downs on Local Schools Network: Academies, free schools and profit – blog fails to debunk “hysterical” article with facts.

http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2012/02/academies-free-schools-and-profit-%E2%80%93-blog-fails-to-debunk-%E2%80%9Chysterical%E2%80%9D-article-with-facts/