Synopsis
Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates a businessman whose companies have been paid millions from school budgets and asks whether it is the pupils who are paying the price.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: Profits Before Pupils? The Academies Scandal
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2018
- Sociology | How has the UK education system changed? | The diversity of educational provision: Government policies from 1988 onwards, including vocational and work-based training. Ideological influences on government educational policy: New Right; social democratic. The impact of educational policies on: inclusion, access to education and opportunities; gender, class, ethnicity; competition, diversity and choice; raising standards.
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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