The GCE results have been announced. The requisite hugging and squealing film clips have been shown on the TV news, and Lord Adonis is rubbing his hands. Several Hull schools have failed to meet his phoney result levels and he can look for privateers to take them over. If he gets his way they will become Macademies of Burger-flipping; or schools of snake juggling and speaking in tongues where the kids will be taught the five thousand year history of the universe.

A good role model for these new academies is getting some well deserved publicity today. This is the College of International Cooperation and Development, Winestead, East Yorkshire, where the students are taught street begging and recycling second-hand clothes (or rag-gathering, as we used to call it). Now the students are complaining about the curriculum, but as it's a private business it seems that the people who run the college and pocket the proceeds of their students' work experience are not breaking any rules.
That's the way to run a macademy - exploitation, exploitation, exploitation.