Talk:New Schools Network

Copyvio Material and POV
I've removed some really obvious copyvio material which had been C&P directly from The NSN website. This can't be replaced - I'll look more carefully at the rest of the content later to check for other clear copyvios - I've tweaked the lead to avoid clear copyvio material, but much of the article seems to be sourced from the NSN site so this does need checking.

I've also tried to tone the obvious promotional basis of the article down. As it stood it clearly pushed the organisation's POV and lacked any real NPOV nature. Again, this is clearly unacceptable under wiki guidelines. I fear there's more to do on this.

I also removed the massive list of free schools. These are in the sources and, in the case of the 24 existing schools, in the Free Schools article as well. We don't need massive lists of stuff in an article like this - a list article, perhaps. Of the 79 schools which have outline approval for September 2012 my understanding is that only a handful have, at this point, a 100% go ahead - so the article has been toned down to reflect that.

I'll look more at this - but any help, particularly in maintaining a NPOV and sourcing from outside the group's own website, would be very helpful. Ta Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:43, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Section 'Free Schools Open in 2011' should be deleted.
It was irrelevent in 2011 but is now out of date as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfbray (talk • contribs) 11:49, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

NPOV edit request
I am the digital campaigns officer at New Schools Network, and would like to request some changes which will reflect updates to the organisation.

1) The introduction should be amended, to reflect our campaigning activity and pre-opening support: The charity supports groups setting up free schools within the English state education sector. They also campaign to identify and encourage good new free school applicants to come forward and support successful applicants as they prepare to open their schools.

2) The history section has not been updated since 2013. The following should be added: Evans left the organisation in 2015. Nick Timothy, special adviser to then Home Secretary, Theresa May MP, became Director . Timothy was appointed joint Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister when Theresa May MP replaced David Cameron . In 2016, NSN announced a new Advisory Council, drawing on expertise from across the political and education spectrum. The Advisory Council includes former schools minister, David Laws, and Sally Morgan, who served as chair of Ofsted from 2011 to 2014. The council also includes Suella Fernandes, a prominent member of the education select committee, and several experts with links to the last Labour government . In 2016, it was announced that journalist and free school founder Toby Young would become Director in January 2017.

3) The section titled 'free schools open in 2011' is very out of date, and also links to the general 'Free school (England)' page. We would recommend removing this or having a link under 'open free schools'. I will be providing an updated list of open free schools on the 'Free school (England)' page in due course.

Infonsn (talk) 11:00, 3 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Any chance you could provide more third party citations rather than internal ones? The Gran and FT are fine, but if you provide the citations then I'll start digging at those places and write some prose when I get time perhaps. Thanks. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:41, 3 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Not sure of another source for the first point - expansions of our activity are only explicitly explained on our own website (as the citation on the existing page). Schoolsweek is an external print and online newspaper. Infonsn (talk) 16:13, 4 January 2017 (UTC)