Education Secretary Michael Gove this week wrote to schools to invite them to become academies as part of the coalition Government’s flagship policy to introduce Swedish-style free schools.
A Financial Times article by David Turner points out that since Swedish free schools were established, overall pupil performance across has fallen and even shown a “steep decline” compared to earlier generations of Swedes.
Jan-Eric Gustafsson of Gothenburg University told the newspaper that the evidence is that free schools do no better than others in academic tests after allowing for the fact that families which send them there tend to be better educated.
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