The Daily Telegraph
" This week George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a potential 25% spending cut in the budget for education. this announcement means that potentially Teachers and lecturers will face a two-year pay freeze from 2011. Teacher's unions have warned that "this level of funding reduction will inevitably include fairly savage staffing cuts, inevitably leading to many schools being closed. Many children will find themselves unable to find a school to go to, unless they can afford to go private".
Michael Gove, the education minister, has already admitted certain schools will need to be closed down due to the spending cuts. The most notable schools to potentially be closing down are the Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes, which has space for 2600 students, and the highly anticipated Nottingham Academy, which is expected to house 3500 students upon completion. However Mr Gove released a statement regarding private funding for these schools which could possibly save them from completely closing down, coming from the 'U.M.A. - The United Monopolies Association'.
The U.M.A was set up when some of the world's biggest companies joined together to form a conlomerate capable of sustaining itself. Headed by Richard Branson of the Virgin Group, the U.M.A is made up from varying companies including; Starbucks, McDonalds, Burger King, Tesco, Amnesty International, KFC, Fox News and Easyjet.

The U.M.A already own many things in the world including; Wall Street, Brighton, Guantanamo bay, United Arab Emirates and fund many of NASA's experiments. The conglomerate has bought many schools in the USA in states such as Florida, Texas and Nevada. These particular schools have seen a rise in the rate of students going to college, a statistic rumoured to have been the reason Michael Gov approached them in the hope of helping Britiains failing pass rates.
The downside of these Fast-Food-Schools is an increase in obesity, litter and early death rates in the areas affected. However, this has had the upshot of a growth in the economy of those areas, with an increase in the amount of; gyms, funeral parlours and litter collectors being built. Mr Gove and Mr Osborne met earlier in the week to discuss the possibility of this happening in this country, both we're apparently "happy with the budget cuts, as in the foreseeable future it would bring economic growth to the country".
Mr Gove's possible move to allow the U.M.A to buy out schools in the UK has been met by some protest from the RSPCA and WWF, who say the affect on wildlife in unaccountable.
"These areas are not suitable for huge growth. The animal life would suffer dramatically from an increase in lorries, pollution and food wasted from these outlet stores. We have already seen the effect on foxes from McDonalds waste, who knows what would happen in these places if we added new kinds of food."
The WWF released a report regarding an incident in Nevada where a pack of coyotes attacked children leaving their school after the day was finished. The coyotes' growth was found to be excelled by the amount of additives in the food, and that their aggression levels increased by the amount of lights.
The possible effect on British wildlife is unknown however. Pauline Koupparis has said she would be at the spearhead of a campaign to stop the move, after her children we're attacked by foxes and destroyed in a controlled explosion. "