A statement from the Chair of the New Visions for Education Group, Professor Sir Tim Brighouse The provision of teacher education is undergoing an unpublicised crisis in recent months. This statement looks at two issues to do with the initial training of teachers in England. The first is the Government’s ambivalence towards the initial training [...]
A. Submissions
In this collection are papers agreed by the New Visions Group as submissions to Ministers, opposition parties and other policy making groups
COHERENT STRUCTURES AND GOVERNANCE FOR EDUCATION: economy, accountability and improving educational performance.
This statement has been endorsed by the Group and was published to the Press and Media on 27 July 2012. Click here for the Press Release This is the first public contribution made by the Group to the debate on how the public education service in England should be organised and governed. There is already [...]
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An Unstable Framework – Critical perspectives on The Framework for the National Curriculum
Critical perspectives on The Framework for the National Curriculum (report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum Review) Margaret Brown and John White This paper was formally endorsed by the New Visions for Education Group at its meeting on 28 March 2012. In January 2011, the Coalition government launched its National Curriculum Review. As [...]
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North of England Education Conference 2012 Presidential address
Mick Waters The opening of this conference has expressed the warmth of the welcome to the city of Leeds and we look forward to a stimulating and enjoyable three days of debate. We have delegates from Ghana and Gosforth, Pakistan and Pudsey, Nigeria and Nottingham. The conference title is ‘Passion, Potential and Performance’ and these watchwords will be explored [...]
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How do we prepare students for a world we cannot imagine?
Dylan Wiliam Institute of Education, University of London Abstract The educational achievement of a country’s population is a key determinant of its economic growth, and so improving educational attainment is an urgent priority for all countries. A number of ways that this might be done have been attempted, including changes to the structure of schooling, [...]
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Education Select Committee Inquiry: The English Baccalaureate
Education Select Committee Inquiry: The English Baccalaureate Written submission from the New Visions for Education Group The New Visions Group draws together individuals who are involved in education and are concerned for its future. Chair: Sir Tim Brighouse. Its members include some of the country’s leading educationists, among them headteachers, academic researchers, educational administrators and [...]
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The Education Bill 2011 – A critique of its underlying themes
Below the surface of the Bill At first read, many of the provisions of the Education Bill 2011 could be understood simply as a new government’s clear out of things which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, we don’t really need particularly at a time of swingeing cuts in public sector expenditure. That, [...]
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Evidence to the House of Commons Committee on the Education Bill
28 February 2011 Submitted by Professor Margaret Maden, County Education Officer, Warwickshire (1989-95) and Dr.Eric Wood, County Education Officer, Warwickshire (1995-2006) We are concerned that the Education Bill fails to secure the optimal means of achieving effective oversight and management of educational provision at the local level. Whilst we deplore the absence of local democratic [...]
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