Today’s Education Select Committee: DfE Reform (23rd January 2013)

CfEY’s latest policy investigation focusses on the current and future roles of area-based partnerships. These are local, non-statutory, voluntary partnerships of schools, academies and often (but not always) the local authority, working together to take responsibility for school improvement in an area. If you work or lead in a local authority or local area based…

Our Government is at fault for the failings of the National Tutoring Programme, but schools also need to raise their game to ensure its success. ‘Just give us your f***ing money!’ Who remembers Bob Geldof, in the middle of the heat of Live Aid, shouting this at all of us watching on TV?’ Well, sometimes…