We are delighted to be the main supporting organisation for the upcoming Wellington College run Academies Conference that takes place on Friday 13 May 2011. The Secretary of State, the Rt. Hon Michael Gove MP, will give the keynote speech and will be joined by other leading figures, including Lord Andrew Adonis, Elizabeth Sidwell (the [...]
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Still waiting for Sebastian James…
The long heralded James Review on the future of schools capital seems to have had more pencilled-in launch dates than a NASA Shuttle. But we are pretty confident it will be launched shortly… For an industry that thrives on certainty, local authorities that need to plan and schools that need investment, this delay has implications. [...]
Times Plus / Michael Gove education debate…
“EVIDENCE IS NOT THE PLURAL OF ANECDOTE…..” Give me the decayed glamour of a music hall in the East End; a panel discussion on education and I’m a happy man. This week I was a guest of Teach First at a Times Plus Newspaper debate:- ‘ Are our Schools Fit for purpose? ’ at Wilton’s [...]
Waiting for Superman: Free Schools vs Local Schools – the debate starts here
On Monday 22 November, we are lucky enough to be hosting the first UK screening of the Oscar shortlisted film ‘Waiting for Superman‘ that has rocked the US education system and is set to send the debate about Free Schools in the UK into orbit. We know that the film will generate a huge amount [...]
Studio Schools – if its good enough for Da Vinci…
Yesterday’s national launch of Studio Schools represents a major step forward for thinking about future schooling. This has been a patient, studied five year evolution that is set to be one of the much needed revolutions the system needs. Incubated and piloted under New Labour and now validated by the Coalition this could represent a [...]
School building programme overhaul: a busy day
So the early contours of the new government’s approach to ongoing school rebuilding is becoming a good deal clearer. Michael Gove has a short video statement here that includes a continued commitment to renewal and renovation …..
What you may have missed in May
With so much to look forward to in June (National School Environments Week 18-25 June and the BCSE Industry Awards 24 June), we thought we’d make sure that you haven’t missed any of the important developments we picked up in May. It all seems so long ago now, but a month ago, we weren’t entirely [...]
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. [...]
Gove 1 Balls 0 – A Battle of Ideas
The Conservative Party will make education its top campaign message this week. The two main parties have been engaged in ‘political mirroring’ for months; it’s now time for political attack. I met Michael Gove MP, again at the weekend in Brighton at their spring policy forum. This man is in the right place at the [...]
Kunskapsskolan – new dynamics in teaching and learning?
In 2008 we did our first of many study tours to Scandinavia including visits to a number of Kunskapsskolan schools. At the time people wondered why we were so interested in this chain of schools and what impact it might have on the UK. Fast forward a couple of years and you cannot read one [...]
