If Britain’s got talent, then why are we so obsessed with GCSEs? On the PM’s speech about education…

The Prime Minister made an interesting speech about education a couple of days ago: We liked this bit: “Two teenage boys from a special school summed it up for me – let me read you what they said “all students have some talent which may be hard to find or encourage. In my school we [...]

Let a thousand flowers bloom: on parent power and making it easier to set up a school

I read Prospect’s piece on Tory education plans this weekend and it got us thinking about two of the most interesting issues we’ve come across in the debate about reforming education. The first is, how to innovate in schools. As the Studio Schools Trust is being set up, we at the Young Foundation have seen [...]