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25 Cornwall schools interested in becoming academies

Graham Smith | 13:51 UK time, Friday, 25 June 2010

According to the , becoming an academy gives a school:
* freedom from local authority control
* ability to set their own pay and conditions for staff
* freedom from following the National Curriculum
* ability to change the lengths of terms and school days.

Here are the schools which have expressed an interest:

Secondaries
Penair School, Penryn College, Treviglas Community College, Pool Business & Enterprise College, Falmouth School and Penrice Community College.

Primaries
Newquay junior school, St Hilary school, Sandy Hill community primary, St Buryn primary, Mabe county primary, Gwinear community primary, Trenance infant school, St Francis C. of E. primary, Mawgan-in-Pydar county primary, Goonhavern primary, Bosvigo, Grade Ruan, King Charles, Lewannick, Mounts Bay, Parc Eglos, Rosemellion county primary, Sir Robert Geffery, St Cleer primary.

The full Department for Education list is .

"Expressing an interest" is not the same as applying to become an academy, but this list will worry County Hall.

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