:00:00. > :00:00.of their first match tomorrow against the West Indies. That is in
:00:00. > :00:15.the next 15 minutes, after the papers.
:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are Head of News for The Times Fay Schlesinger
:00:23. > :00:36.and energy correspondent for the FT Kiran Stacey.
:00:37. > :00:47.Let's start with the New Day. Fay, the great British schools shake-up.
:00:48. > :00:52.An interesting choice of picture on the front page. I have no idea what
:00:53. > :01:00.it is. I think it is a sponge and a classroom window. The shake-up is
:01:01. > :01:04.about a bit more than sponges. They are all going to become academies?
:01:05. > :01:08.One of the key announcements from tomorrow's Budget will be that by
:01:09. > :01:14.2022, every school in England will be an academy. That means they go
:01:15. > :01:19.from being under the control of the local authority to getting their
:01:20. > :01:22.funding direct from the Department for Education. It is a big change.
:01:23. > :01:27.We have had local authority is running our schools since 1902, sat
:01:28. > :01:31.over 100 years. The theory is that you can have more power for the
:01:32. > :01:36.people. It will put the power back in the hands of those that want to
:01:37. > :01:39.run the academy chintz. If a school refuses to turn into an academy,
:01:40. > :01:44.there will be taken over by the government, so this is a real push
:01:45. > :01:49.to get standards up. We are almost inexplicably behind on maths
:01:50. > :01:56.especially compared to places like Shanghai. And we cannot work out
:01:57. > :02:01.why, so this is a push to give more power to these schools to do better.
:02:02. > :02:08.They will also allow schools to open for an hour longer and give them
:02:09. > :02:12.funding to do so. Kiran, the jury is out as to whether turning a school
:02:13. > :02:16.into an academy mix the standards better. Sir Michael Wilshaw, the
:02:17. > :02:21.chief inspector of schools, only last week said that in three or four
:02:22. > :02:25.cases, it has not worked. It is always going to vary, because it is
:02:26. > :02:29.giving more power to the people who run these schools. So some will get
:02:30. > :02:34.better and some will get worse. One theory is that a lot of them have
:02:35. > :02:38.got better so far because it gives schools a bit of extra cash and a
:02:39. > :02:41.boost in confidence. And parents decide, I want to send my kids there
:02:42. > :02:48.instead of the comprehensive down the road. So it sucks pupils away
:02:49. > :02:52.from those comprehensives. If every school is an academy, we will see
:02:53. > :02:57.whether the theory works across all schools. If so, great. But if what
:02:58. > :03:00.has been happening is that good pupils are sucked out of other
:03:01. > :03:07.schools, we will see this model fail. Fay, no national collective
:03:08. > :03:09.bargaining as far as teachers' salaries are concerned. And no
:03:10. > :03:14.national curriculum. It is a freefall. It is a real mark of this
:03:15. > :03:18.government that they are trying to put power back in the hands of
:03:19. > :03:21.people. We have seen it with clinical commissioning groups within
:03:22. > :03:25.the health service as well. They are trying to move away from having the
:03:26. > :03:29.local council in control and putting it back into the hands of those at
:03:30. > :03:36.the coal face. It is a bit of an experiment. It is great, as long as
:03:37. > :03:39.it is then carefully controlled. When we start seeing standards
:03:40. > :03:46.falling, you have to wrestle control back. There is a big question about
:03:47. > :03:49.what happens to failing academies. We are not sure what will happen to
:03:50. > :03:56.schools that do not succeed when they turn into academies. Maybe the
:03:57. > :04:00.government has to step in. It could be a big centralisation programme.
:04:01. > :04:04.It could end up not being power to the schools, it could be the central
:04:05. > :04:15.government taking back control. Now to the Financial Times. Kiran,
:04:16. > :04:18.Osborne to break promise of fiscal claustrophobic? It is a good
:04:19. > :04:25.headline. George Osborne is going to have his hands tied tomorrow. There
:04:26. > :04:29.is a spending gap in his Budget of ?18 billion because although the
:04:30. > :04:32.economy is growing, wages are not. That means the tax receipts are not
:04:33. > :04:35.flowing through to the Treasury in the way George Osborne thought they
:04:36. > :04:40.would. So instead of being able to have a big giveaway as we get
:04:41. > :04:44.further through this Parliament, he is going to have to make further
:04:45. > :04:47.cuts of about 4 billion by the end of this Parliament. That means when
:04:48. > :04:51.it comes to Budget Day is like tomorrow, he will not be able to do
:04:52. > :04:56.what he loves to do, which is pull a rabbit out of the hat at the end.
:04:57. > :04:59.Don't speak too soon! Well, he might pull a rabbit out of the hat, but it
:05:00. > :05:04.will not be an expensive one because he doesn't have the money to play
:05:05. > :05:10.with. So we think he's going to miss one of his big fiscal targets, and
:05:11. > :05:14.that is cutting debt as a share of GDP. He promised he would cut it
:05:15. > :05:20.every year. That will not happen, because the tax revenues are not
:05:21. > :05:23.flowing through. Fay, how does the Conservative government continue to
:05:24. > :05:29.sell the austerity line before the targets are being missed? This is an
:05:30. > :05:34.argument that junior doctors make. If you are trying to scale back, why
:05:35. > :05:38.are you not hitting your targets? For Osborne, it plays into his hands
:05:39. > :05:42.to have an element of economic instability, both in the run-up to
:05:43. > :05:47.the next elections, and also in the run-up to the EU referendum. He
:05:48. > :05:50.wants us to stay in the EU. Any sense of not being on course
:05:51. > :05:55.economically would play into the hands of those who want to stay with
:05:56. > :05:58.the EU, because we don't know what happens with Brexit. This is the
:05:59. > :06:03.political calculation Osborne has made throughout. He has missed
:06:04. > :06:07.target after target, but each time he has said the alternative is
:06:08. > :06:11.worse, so stick with me. That has become even bigger for him now that
:06:12. > :06:16.Jeremy Corbyn is in charge of the Labour Party. The Independent,
:06:17. > :06:25.Russia set to ditch Assad. He has pulled his forces out of Syria. This
:06:26. > :06:32.piece is arguing that the West hopes that is the case. We had the
:06:33. > :06:36.extraordinary announcement yesterday that Putin would pull out a loss of
:06:37. > :06:40.his forces. There is a whole set of things at play. He might be wanting
:06:41. > :06:44.to concentrate on Ukraine and has too much on his plate. He has
:06:45. > :06:48.massive financial problems with the state of oil at the moment. He might
:06:49. > :06:56.feel, I made Assad stronger and now I can get out and still keep him as
:06:57. > :07:04.an ally. Or he might be saying here is a weak leader and we will get rid
:07:05. > :07:12.of him. There is no one to replace Assad, frankly. But if he does bail
:07:13. > :07:19.out on him, we could have to delete different landscape. We are running
:07:20. > :07:24.out of time. Kiran, there is a reason you are sitting to Fay's
:07:25. > :07:30.left! A little item on the front of the Daily Telegraph. BBC battle for
:07:31. > :07:35.prime spot on the sofa. That is because Louise Minchin and the
:07:36. > :07:39.replacement for Bill Turnbull, Dan Walker, are sitting on the sofa and
:07:40. > :07:47.having a Barney as to who sits on the left are going to the viewer and
:07:48. > :07:54.who sits camera right, viewer right. Kiran? This is a revelation to me.
:07:55. > :08:03.Apparently, the camera left seat signals seniority in TV circles.
:08:04. > :08:08.This is something we newspaper hacks had no idea about. We have our own
:08:09. > :08:11.equivalent. If you open a newspaper, the right-hand page is more
:08:12. > :08:15.important because people look at it first. I guess that is the argument,
:08:16. > :08:20.that because you read from left to right, when you look at a screen,
:08:21. > :08:25.you look from left to right. This is a key argument about sexism at the
:08:26. > :08:30.BBC. I think you will find that watching television news with
:08:31. > :08:33.co-presenters works on every challenge Click channel. You will be
:08:34. > :08:38.back in an hour to look at more of the stories behind the news. Now,
:08:39. > :08:51.Sportsday. Hello, I'm Olly Foster,
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