Schools to make profit: This Week's News Crib Sheet

Schools becoming more like businesses - advice is to make profit, no plans to implement as yet

• Let for-profit firms transform weak state schools, urges former headteacher http://bit.ly/znR0Vj
• 'John Lewis' business model is advocated for schools http://bbc.in/AmRDBT
• Profit making companies should run state schools http://tgr.ph/xNUEAq
• Let teachers run John Lewis-style schools for profit, says thinktank http://bit.ly/xRtXaE
• The Love of Money: How schools became Markets, and everyone lost. http://bit.ly/xPcKZ3
• Public services, big earners: a sector-by-sector analysis: Schools making money http://bit.ly/xK7tqS
• ‘A crude bonus structure’ - performance related pay http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6182989

Prominent headteacher wins false accusation case but still loses career, is working as a delivery driver instead

• Head teacher cleared over claims of violently restraining pupils http://tgr.ph/z3aFwj
• Head teacher accused of assaulting children wins fight to clear his name... but leaves education anyway http://tgr.ph/wYooiP
• Who'd be a headteacher in 2012? http://bit.ly/xEmjCV

Satisfactory is now officially unsatisfactory, good enough no longer good enough

• formal capability for "satisfactory" lessons? http://bit.ly/xXbXH

• Harrogate Teacher sets himself on fire... TES Forums http://bit.ly/zrErHJ