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Happy Birthday Open University
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So today is the Open University's 40th Birthday. Since 1969 over 2 million people have been educated through the OU and it's now the UK's largest university with 200,000 students each year.<>It was also one of the most radical educational ideas of the 20th Century and, although Harold Wilson took t</>...
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ESSA launches Manifesto 4 Change
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ESSA, the English Secondary Students Association has launched a video competition for young people to create three-minute films about how education could be changed for the better. ESSA are …
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Innovation in Education conference – 9th November
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by Claire McEneaneyWe are really excited about how things are shaping up for our joint conference with EducationGuardian! We have managed to secure a number of really great speakers and some truly inspiring case studies for the workshops.<>The conference looks at how and why innovation is imperati</>...
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10 Downing Street
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by Matthew HorneI spent Thursday morning in Downing Street at the launch of Power in People’s Hands: learning from the worlds best public services.The report is a good catalogue of interesting practice from the around the world.<>Most disappointing was their strategy for generating innovation in ou</>...
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Less is more
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by Matthew HorneDemos have published a report on how government can achieve cost savings and efficiencies in public services.Their argument is that governent should focus on effectiveness (doing better more effective things) and in the long run efficiencies will come.<>I am not convinced of their a</>...
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Spirit level
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by Matthew Horne<>Richard Wilkinson argues in this book that inequality in income lies behind most of the social ills in the broken society thesis. Unequal countries (UK, US, Oz, NZ) do much worse on every social problem than more equal countries <>(Nordic countries, Japan, France, Germany). The char</></>...
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SATS results dip for the first time since 1994
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by Matthew Horne<>So has Ed Balls taken his foot of the accelerator and what we really need is another big push from Sanctuary Buildings or is this the death knell of centralised efforts<> to manage the performance of the school system and the government needs to come up with a new model of improving</></>...
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