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!
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New government: long signalled, swift action
The change from Ed Balls to Michael Gove into the rebranded Department for Education is not going to be the only speedy change in the coming months in the worlds of education, and design. It is likely to be the most radical period of change that these policy areas has seen for almost a decade. [...]
Becta X – rated
Ewan McIntosh the mercurial host of yesterday’s #Bectax event suggested the 150 participants – taken from across education, tech and media industry – have a well earned Easter break before reflecting on the conference. So I’ll take his word and blog the morning after! The event (hats off to BECTA and Katz Kieley @katzy by [...]
Why school environments matter
As part of our launch of our School Environments Charter, we asked an ICT teacher from Hamble College in Southampton (who Ty met by chance at an SSAT event) to get his Digital Leader students to do a short poem and video about why they thought school environments matter. As you can see from the [...]
An end to factory schools
Leading headteacher and member of the BCSE’s Great Schools Inquiry and Commission, Anthony Seldon launches his latest report today which shares 20 ways of ending Factory Schools in England (Centre for Policy Studies). With an emphasis on a return to “the delight, gratitude and stimulus” in schools his work will resonate with a large number [...]
BECTA X to Nick Gibb – social media in action
I had a great chat with Katz Kieley – the mastermind of a fantastic programme of events in the digital world called B-tween. She has been asked by BECTA to set up a collaborative event at the end of March called BECTA X. My chat with her is now a blog on their site
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. [...]
The Swedish Schools model – will they work in the UK?
A quick post to share an interesting paper out today from the Centre for Economic Performance which concludes that: Importing the Swedish model may not make very much difference to the UK’s educational status quo… and Creating new schools will be expensive if large capital outlays are required and ‘bad’existing schools remain open
Technology and school buildings
The role of technology in school building programmes was called into question this week by prominent principal Armando Di-Finizio from Bristol Brunel Academy who was quoted in a Times article saying that millions of pounds were being wasted on “white elephant” technology in schools. He went further to say that there were pressures on schools [...]
