| Description |
1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of authors and contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 An education service for the future: values and principles -- 1 Towards a learning education system?: globalisation, change, improvement and accountability in uncertain times -- Introduction -- The change imperative -- Revisiting the purposes of schooling -- the UK context -- The improvement paradox and accountability -- Towards a learning education system? -- Lessons from a small country -- Wales |
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Reflections -- Policy options -- 2 Aims and values: direction with purpose -- Introduction -- What young people need for the predicted future -- 21st century skills -- Education and global competences -- about more than employment -- Parental views -- Values -- Implications of not responding to the changing world -- Reflections -- Policy options -- 3 Developing your vision: principles and implementation challenges -- Introduction -- Foundation principles and the choices they lead to -- Policy implementation: stakeholders and levers for change |
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Learning from the past and drawing on expert network knowledge -- Interdependencies in the education ecosystem -- Making major policy decisions: balancing idealism with practicalities -- Service complexity -- Managing complexity -- Reflections -- Policy options -- Section 2 England: a case study, a vision and a cautionary tale -- 4 A 'national education service': what can we learn from the past? -- Introduction -- A national education service locally delivered -- The age of optimism and trust: central and local government roles |
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The age of doubt and disillusion: shifting power from local to of central government -- The age of markets and managerialism -- centralising power -- The legacy of successive Secretaries of State -- 'unnecessary and unwarranted interference' -- 1945-2018: an attempt at a balance sheet of what worked and what was less successful -- Governance structures -- Finance -- Accountability arrangements, examinations and testing, school improvement and curriculum -- The supply and retention of teachers -- Reflections and disclaimer -- Policy options -- 5 Politics aside: from fragmentation to coherence |
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DfE Tops list of concern -- Current status of English state education -- the problem -- The impact of the problem -- pressure on the system -- These problems may be invisible to policy makers -- Possible tactical solutions -- Houston, we have a bigger problem -- The big idea -- separation of power between education delivery, oversight and politics -- Why? -- Reflections -- Policy options -- 6 Education England: from chaos to consensus? -- Introduction -- Our proposal: Education England -- Expected benefits -- Understandings fundamental to the proposal -- Education England -- foundation values |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leask, Marilyn
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Younie, Sarah
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| ISBN |
9780429523311 |
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0429523319 |
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