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accountability
So what, if anything, can be done to help all pupils in schools where there is a large number of disadvantaged children?
What effect, if any, does disadvantage have on school children?
Are 20% of school leavers illiterate?
What about maths? How many school children leave school innumerate?
What makes a successful school?
Do academies get better results, or improve more quickly, than other state schools?
Has there been grade inflation in GCSEs and A levels?
Would Performance-Related Pay improve educational outcomes?
Is it true that two thirds of businesses in 2012 complained about school leavers’ basic literacy, numeracy and computer skills?
What are the key factors of a school accountability system? The OECD lists ten.
How can school governors help in holding schools to account?
admissions
Would bringing back selection at 11 result in higher educational attainment?
How successful have recent policy initiatives been in closing the social class gap?
international
How are UK pupils measured against children in other countries?
Is the UK tumbling down the international league tables?
What are the examination systems in other countries?
What does a January 2013 review of evidence say about market intervention in education in Sweden and Chile?
What are the examination and assessment systems in OECD countries?
How are schools held accountable in OECD member countries?
What do schools systems which score highly in PISA have in common?
Do English pupils spend fewer hours in class than in other countries?
How did England do in the 2013 Adult Skills Survey?
Shoud international test results be used with caution?
What does PISA say about UK 15-year-olds?
How did the 2012 Learning Curve report rank UK education?
How did English 10 year-olds perform in PIRLS?
How did English and Northern Irish pupils perform in the TIMSS?
What did UNICEF say about UK education in 2013?
local schools
What do we believe in?
What are the changes to Ofsted inspections due to take place in September 2015?
policy
Do market forces in education increase achievement and efficiency?
What risks did the NAO describe in its report about delivering public services through markets?
Trojan Horse – what action did Peter Clarke recommend for the Department for Education (DfE?)
Trojan Horse – what action did Peter Clarke recommend for Multi Academy Trusts?
Trojan Horse – what action did Peter Clarke recommend for all schools?
Trojan Horse – what action did Peter Clarke recommend for Ofsted?
Trojan Horse – what action did Peter Clarke recommend for Birmingham City Council (BCC) in particular and for all local authorities generally?
What did the Education Select Committee say about academies and free schools in January 2015?
school culture
How can the Government attract talented people into the teaching profession?
What is a qualified teacher?
How can school governors help in holding schools to account?
school types
The Government cites a 2008 report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to justify its academy conversion programme. Does this report wholeheartedly endorse academy conversion?
What did the National Audit Office (NAO) really say about academies in 2010?
Did the Public Accounts Committee 2011 report conclude that academies had been a resounding success?
Is it true that schools with more autonomy tend to achieve better results?
Do academies get better results, or improve more quickly, than other state schools?
What did the University of Birmingham find out about academy performance up to 2007?
What warnings about academy conversion were given in the Sutton Trust Report 2007?
The Academies Commission 2013: what did the Commission say?
What problems do Local Authorities face when schools become academies according to 2012 report?
What did the Public Accounts Committee say about the Academies Programme in 2013?
What did the Sutton Trust say about academies in 2008?
What were the policy implications listed in the Sutton Trust 2008 report into the academies programme?
What were the findings of the final LGA/DfE 2012 report into the role of LAs in education?
Do local authorities control their schools?
How do schools convert to academies? What’s an academy trust?
What did the NAO report on free schools (2013) recommend?