Or will those near to towns be absorbed by development into suburbs?
… “The academies white paper doesn’t specifically target small schools, but the requirement that all schools should join multi-academy trusts, recently described by senior Conservative back bencher Graham Brady as “new and distant bureaucracies”, has led to fears that this model of rural education will become unviable and unattractive to the sort of trusts favoured by the government.” …
East Devon Watch 