Today’s Education Questions was the first of the new Parliamentary session. With little opportunity for detailed policy announcements over the summer there was always the potential it would be a somewhat bitty session, punctuated only with the inevitable boasts from MPs wishing to promote school results in their constituencies and a few bashes from Gove about the upcoming strikes. Thankfully there were a few more positives (not least Gove recording his thanks to teachers for their efforts in continually improving school quality) but there was also the downside of the questions being very patchy indeed.
When it came to the Advanced British Standard, I was initially guilty of judging a policy book by its cover. My first impression of the ABS was that it sounded too much like IBS to become a compelling brand. I then wondered about the ‘B’; given our devolved education system, what would be British about…
As one of my first projects at CfEY, I was delighted to join the team working on a rapid review of the current landscape surrounding school trips in England on behalf of the Clore Duffield Foundation. Our project aimed to gather key insights on how school trips can be made more accessible to children and…
Leaves are falling. I feel like hibernating. And the chancellor is up for speaking. Nothing says autumn like an Autumn Statement. Autumn Statements are chances to tweak, not transform. Unlike the Comprehensive Spending Review (where more radical, long-term ideas can be taken forward), these statements tend not to be too disruptive to departmental spending plans….
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