Shiny Happy Students

This is the Hackney City Academy, a secondary school less than a year old that epitomises the direction that education has been taking in the UK over recent years. I can't help but think that the prime reason for the success of these new institutions is the money that has been thrown at them, and that the much vaunted private money invested just provides a smoke screen. I'd love to know if they are real, long term, value. The other half of the equation tomorrow.