It's a TINA dogma thing and it's part of a multi layered attack on the education system.
I was having a discussion last week about school places with a guy who couldn't get his child into any of his local state primary schools in London, all full (
the London Evening Standard was reporting that almost 4800 primary school kids have yet to find a primary school place in Greater London).
This is leading to many parents like himself, that wouldn't normally choose to do so, having to consider private schools in the vicinity simply to avoid the hassle and cost of long travels each morning to get your kid to a state primary school miles away each day.
Now once they feel obliged to go down that route, fee paying primary education, it becomes more acceptable to introduce fee paying secondary education too, or at least partial fee paying. There are Academies opening in areas already overprovided with secondary education places. What's that all about?
I think that's what Gove really wants to introduce largely by engineering the situation to ensure that when it happens, such schools will also be highly profitable for the owners.
Get rid of national pay scales and collective bargaining, get rid of even requiring teaching qualifications especially those issued by by those lefty liberal teaching colleges, and then incentivise profit as there's oodles of money to be made, tax payers money to be diverted into private accounts, especially for those who subscribe to that philosophy, are organised and have financial backing to get in on the act early.
Cue Virgin Education or more likely some gang of carpetbaggers from the States, Gove's favourite place, with a catchy cod latin company name like
Educatium, coming to a place near you, and getting a load of tax payers money to run these places at profit.
Of course they will strenuously be called non-profit making but I confidently expect the Governors will be salaried and obviously selected from the
right sort, and the heads of such schools will probably be drawn not from education but from finance and naturally they will expect financial recompense commensurate with their experience. I mean, how can we expect to attract the right talent unless we pay them that sort of money (strange how it's a different story for the lowly teaching staff...)
It will be like the NHS Trust nonsense, an anonymous bunch of highly paid and largely self appointed worthies creaming our money away from the increasingly starved front line.
Because they're worth it.