The Staff College | Children’s Services

A New Era for School Improvement: Emerging Practice

Leadership Academy 1: A New Era for School Improvement: Emerging Practice, 27th January 2016 This first thematic seminar of the 2016 programme explored the changing......

31 August, 2016

Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments

“Despite strong progress in education, there are significant challenges to achieving the global education goal, SDG 4: Children cannot read after several years of school in sub-Saharan Africa;......

07 November, 2017

Are we in danger of shedding the middle tier?

This think piece provides a brief overview of the current debate around the ‘middle tier’ – the ‘mediating layer’ between central government and schools –......

24 May, 2013

Bits and Pieces No:5

The fifth in a suite of occasional reports. The views expressed in this publication, although personal, have been informed by the sessional discussions and thinking......

11 May, 2017

Career Ambitions ‘already limited by age of seven’

By the age of seven, children are already facing limits on their future aspirations in work, according to a report from the OECD international economics......

03 December, 2019

Closing the Gap? Trends in Educational Attainment and Disadvantage

The Education Policy Institute is an independent, impartial and evidence-based research institute which aims to promote high quality education outcomes, regardless of social background. This......

03 August, 2017

Commissioning in children’s services: What works?

Pressures to do more with less are likely to be exacerbated now Britain has voted to leave the European Union – it is too soon......

09 March, 2017

For long-term improvements, schools need to slow down

Pressure on schools to make rapid improvements discourages deeper thinking about long-term solutions. An article by: Jess Harris, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle......

11 September, 2017

How to Turn Around a Failing School: Lessons from 160 UK academies

This paper presents the findings from a study by The Centre for High-Performance (a collaboration between senior faculty at the Universities of Oxford and Kingston)......

27 February, 2017

Learning to Make a Difference : School as a Creative Community

The education system is failing to meet the needs of too many learners today because it ill equips them for the challenges of an uncertain,......