I am delighted to go live with this year’s BCSE Annual Conference – hosted in partnership with Manchester City Council on the 9-10 November 2010 – which will be bigger and better than ever before. With 4 big themes around the Changing Landscape – for Schools, Academies, Free schools and the Big Society – we [...]
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New government – the first ten days
In the first of our podcasts Ty reflects on the first 10 days of the new government, the newly launched coalition programme for government that shares some more detail about schools policy and the rumoured cuts to the Building Schools for the Future budget. Note: please excuse the wobbly camerawork – its our first one!
Wales 21st Century Schools programme
I was invited to be part of a panel discussion at yesterday’s launch of the Welsh Assembly’s school capital programme. The 21st Century schools programme is a major collaboration between government, the WLGA and local authorities and although the budget has not been set it could be as much as £2bn. The introduction to the [...]
Why wait for BSF?
Yesterday I spoke at an event entitled, ‘Why wait for BSF?’ , hosted by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. It’s early days for their work on this issue but some of the invited schools had done fantastic work. Like the BCSE’s Big School Makeover schools – these schools had not waited for permission to [...]
Great Schools Commission – a shake up for the system
The BCSE’s Great Schools Inquiry and Commission interim report launch is just over a month away. So now is a good time to reflect on the landscape in which we are now working. It is clear to me that there is a time when every government policy or spending priority needs a good shake up [...]
School capital investment – getting our house in order
This is an absolutely vital time. This major investment in school buildings has made a difference, and we really can’t afford to go back to not spending money consistently on infrastructure. The sheer scale of this investment is hard to absorb for many people, and it’s been ill-served by some of the ‘research’ flying around. [...]
David Cameron, report cards and education policy
Its been a pretty interesting 24 hours in the education landscape. Yesterday’s David Cameron speech to the TED 2010 conference set the broader scene for the Conservative party’s own domestic programme of reforms for greater transparency for government with a number of non departmental public bodies (NDPB’s) in the firing line. The section of the [...]
Thinktank 1.0 vs 2.0
I’ve been reflecting on the Centre’s first week and wanted to share a bit of the thinking behind the creation of a web 2.0 thinktank and how that might be differ from the way other think tanks and organisations are currently working and engaging with people in the field. The image below reflects the contrasts [...]
Using social media to change education policy
I’m speaking at the Be2Camp session that forms part of Social Media Week on Monday, and I’m working on what I’m going to say. In setting up The Centre for School Design, we were helped by Paul Evans – a social media geek with an interest in how interactive technologies may change the way that [...]
