And an article for Education for Tomorrow and the STA journal Education for Liberation earlier this year on similar themes:
Education faces the most sustained political attack since the formation of a state education system in the 1870s. That much is plain. The academy and 'free' schools privatisation programme, attacks on education workers' pensions, regressive curriculum and qualification changes, and the dismantling of national pay are all part of a broad 'reform' programme which seeks to dismantle the state education system and replace it with a fully-privatised education market, driven by profit.