Reaction to academy

EDUCATION bosses are today facing a revolt over their controversial shake-up of Southampton secondary schools.

Their decision to appoint a London-based Christian organisation to run two new secondary schools has provoked widespread condemnation across the city.

The move has angered teachers, councillors, business leaders and even the new Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Southampton Itchen MP John Denham, pictured above.

Some head teachers are calling for a review of the decision by the council's conservative education boss Peter Baillie to closes four secondary schools and replace them with two new acadamies.

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We'll have to see where this takes us now. The school is a slightly happier place today as the news sinks in. Perhaps I ought to say, a slightly less devastated place rather than happier although judging by the reaction of teachers in others schools, they are happy to see Oasis come into the city. The difference is, and this is just my opinion, Oaklands is the one school which is actually a very good school already with plans to move further forward which will be lost when the closure comes.