THE Conservatives have announced plans for widespread academy school education. An academy school is no bad thing, but to roll this out on the scale that the Conservatives are proposing is alarming and a seriously flawed idea.

The cost of making so many of our secondary and primary schools academy schools is one subject of debate.

However, here is another point which the Conservatives have either overlooked themselves or are hoping that the voting public will overlook: to have so many academy schools will require there to be a heck of a lot of education experts outside of local authorities in order to run them to the required standard.

It is asking too much for one nation to have a sufficient number of such people.

In criticising the Labour Government, the Conservatives either have nothing to say over what they would do differently, or when they do offer an alternative idea it is so radical that one just cannot expect the infrastructure to exist to support it.

Jeremy Whiting, Great Lumley, Chester-le-Street, Co Durham.