David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and Baroness Morris
It’s not often you get four ex Secretaries of State for Education in the same room, let alone in reflective mood. On Monday night, I was at the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee to see Lord Baker, David Blunkett, Baroness Estelle Morris and Charles Clarke discuss long term trends in education. There was lots of common ground and some great quotes (more to follow on this next week). In the meantime, what were their 10 lessons for education from their time in office:
- The best initiatives are those owned by schools
- The confident headteacher chose the initiatives they wanted
- The pace of change in all aspects of life is fast – education needs to keep pace
- Education is an inherently conservative world
- Partnership with the profession is vital
- Our education system is as good as the average teacher not the best teacher
- We should give schools the confidence to do things differently but we are nervous about what the press will say
- We had a crap teaching profession; we don’t anymore
- Teachers need to embrace change …. but culture change needs to be on the right footing
- None of them liked going to the NUT conference
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