Anti Academies Alliance



The Great City Academy Fraud



This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government’s city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain’s schools. It brings together existing research, by the author and others, and adds new research, to build up a picture of a deeply flawed idea, which is educationally disastrous and inherently corrupt. In his provocative yet fascinating tour de force, Francis Beckett pulls the plug on the most high-profile educational scam for decades.



Report on the MPs Committee of enquiry into academies and trust schools
We pay the piper – they call the tune


The report prepared by the Anti Academies Alliance and its supporters, aims to bring about a change in government thinking about secondary education. The report pulls together the insights and understandings of the practices of operational academies gained by teachers, parents, educationalists, trade unionists, pressure groups and campaigners through their experiences in professional and voluntary roles.

Francis Beckett’s ‘We pay the piper – they call the tune’ tells the story of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, probably the most powerful organisation in British Education.

We believe these two documents are an important and timely examination of the government’s education policy.

The reports cost £3 each or £5 for both.

You can order them by sending a cheque made out to 'Anti Academies Alliance