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 6 June 2008
NCSL/ NET
Pupils produce 'Children’s Charter' in celebration of
innovative approaches to learning
Up to 150 pupils from 17 primary schools across the country contributed to the
Charter at the What Makes Learning Exciting? Conference at the National College
for School Leadership (NCSL) in Nottingham.
Click here to read the Press Release
12 March 2008
Who rules in the classroom?
 By Mike Baker
BBC News
It is commonplace for teachers and parents to complain that politicians interfere too much in education, constantly making announcements and launching initiatives but often having no real effect.
Click here to read an online copy of this article.
8 March 2008
Former minister says Government is 'thrashing around' on school reform
The Independent
The former Labour education secretary, Estelle Morris, last night mounted a scathing attack on the Government's school reforms, warning there was a risk that "we thrash around from one initiative to another" with ministers and senior education figures failing to ask key questions about whether reforms were actually working.
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4 March 2008
Ex-minister attacks school reform
BBC News
Former education secretary Estelle Morris has questioned whether the government really knows what it is doing with its school reforms.
Click here to read an online copy of this article.
Estelle Morris asks "Schools: Does anyone really know what we’re doing?"
"Despite improvements in overall school standards, the gap between the highest and lowest achievers has barely changed," former Education Secretary Estelle Morris asks in her National Education Trust lecture (Tuesday 4th March).
Baroness Morris of Yardley says that this gap is a cause for concern both for politicians and educationists. She also expresses her fear that: "...there is a risk that we thrash around from one initiative to another without asking ourselves some key questions: Are we using the right levers? Is the relationship between politicians and educationists as it should be? Why do others do so much better than us?" The former Education Secretary tells her audience that it is essential that we, as a society, get the answers to these questions right, if we are to move forward into the next stage of educational reform.
The lecture, which marks 18 months since the inauguration of the National Education Trust (NET) in September 2006 took place at the Mercers' Hall in London on Tuesday 4 March 2008 at 6.00pm.
The Trust exists to influence local, regional and national policy through its work with practitioners across all phases and sectors of education, and is establishing itself as a leading voice in educational debate, and as a third sector provider of education services.
Commenting on the lecture, NET Director Roy Blatchford, said "We are delighted to have Estelle Morris deliver our second annual lecture. Her voice in education over the past decade has been a very influential one. She will doubtless be challenging our large invited audience to look afresh at what is going on in the nation’s schools, colleges and universities".
For further information, contact Marc Rowland at the NET offices on:
0207 702 0707 or 07932023948
marc@nationaleducationtrust.net.
The National Education Trust is an Independent Foundation dedicated to improving the quality of education nationwide, shaping its future and working to close the achievement gap.
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