Educational professionals teaching in the UK could benefit from greater flexibility and autonomy as a consequence of the new Academies Bill.This is the view of Lorraine Heath, headteacher of Devon's Uffculme School, one of the educational facilities which is eligible to convert to academy status under the new law.She told BBC News that opting out of local authority control could enable her school and others like it to make its own decisions about how to administer necessary cuts to budgets.Ms He... Read more about Academies Bill 'could help schools to raise standards'