Sir Peter Lampl is acknowledged to be the UK's leading educational philanthropist. He spoke at Policy Exchange discussing his experience of philanthropy and how to improve social mobility and education in the UK.
Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien has the cover story and three page spread in this week's Spectator on the growing financial, cultural and political gulf between London and the rest of the country. He also discusses his article in The Spectator's first ever podcast.
A potential profit-sharing model for the state-funded school system
With profit making already existing in large parts of the state education system, this report calls for the government to consider allowing private companies to set up and run schools under a social enterprise model.
In a speech at Policy Exchange, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts argued that our greatest national assets - our universities, our science facilities and researchers - are the best single hope for making our way in the high-tech world of the future, creating jobs and opportunities and boosting high tech economic growth.
The Times Higher Education covers Sir Peter Lampl's remarks at his speech to Policy Exchange on Education and Social Mobility. Sir Peter argued that the government's strategy on social mobility - if it has one - is in disarray.
Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien discusses the topic of his cover story in The Spectator - the growing financial, cultural and political gulf between London and the rest of the country - in The Spectator's first ever podcast.
This report says that the government should consider allowing private companies to set up and run schools under a social enterprise model. Allowing private providers to take over the running of publicly run schools will create new places at a time when there is a severe shortage in many parts of the country.
There are many challenges facing the government and all providers of higher education and higher skills. This report looks at three problems, and argues that Further Education Colleges can play a strong role in responding to all three.
Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien examines the positive effects school federations are having, highlighting that schools in federations of 3 or more schools see the fastest rate of improvement. He also sets out a list of policy questions raised by the increasing number of school federations.
Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien praises Michael Gove's proposals to hand control of the examination system to universities and outlines some of the pioneering innovations that have been made in the field of examinations and learning.
Sir Peter Lampl is acknowledged to be the UK's leading educational philanthropist, having personally invested tens of millions of pounds and devoted the last 15 years to strategic educational philanthropy. He will be speaking on how the Sutton Trust, of which he is a founding member and chairman, seeks to improve social mobility through education.
Since becoming Chief Inspector of Education, Sir Michael Wilshaw has helped change the debate about underperformance in schools. Instead of just being an argument about how to improve the very worst schools, the question is now how to raise standards in the much larger number of schools that were previously thought to be satisfactory. Will the policies used until now to tackle school failure cope with this much bigger task, or do we need a new set of ideas?
