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In 2017 the Journalist and director of the New Schools Network, Toby Young, attended a social mobility summit hosted by Teach First, who asked him to write a blog for them. [54] [1] Teach First disagreed with the content of the work submitted by Young, and published it with a rebuttal from another author working in the field. [54]
The Department for Education (DfE) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for child protection, child services, education (compulsory, further, and higher education), apprenticeships, and wider skills in England.
In 1989, under the Education Reform Act 1988, the LEAs lost responsibility for higher education, with all polytechnics and colleges of higher education becoming independent corporations. A further wave of local government reorganisation during the 1990s led to the formation of unitary authorities in parts of England and throughout Wales, which ...
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
Education is compulsory until 18, thus post-16 education can take a number of forms, and may be academic or vocational. This can involve continued schooling, known as sixth form, leading to A-levels or alternative Level 3 qualifications. It can also include work-based apprenticeships, traineeships and volunteering.
The Education Act 1902 formalised the relationship between central government and education delivery by abolishing the 2568 school boards set up by the 1870 Act, and transferring their duties (and schools) to local government (borough and county councils) in a new guise as local education authorities.
Professor Robin Alexander. Robin Alexander is a British educationist and academic known particularly for championing the cause of primary education, [1] [2] for his leadership of the Cambridge Primary Review, [3] and for his research and writing on education policy, culture, curriculum, pedagogy, dialogic teaching [4] and comparative and international education.
At the time, the government said it had decided to close Downhills Primary School and re-open it as a Harris Academy because of "chronic underperformance" at Downhills. [24] According to national news reports, standards of education at Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane quickly improved with the Federation's involvement. [25]