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Today's Education Select Committee on Governing Body Reform -
There were two key issues that kept recurring in today's discussion of governing bodies: issues of training a governing body to be effective and the responsibilities that governing bodies have for driving school improvement. With that in mind, I've put today's tweets into these key areas and added a commentary on what LKMco's research, 'What Makes a Good School Governor...
Policy Exchange's report 'Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare -
Here are Anna's tweets from earlier summarising the key points and recommendations from the Policy Exchange report: Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare'. She has focused particularly on provision for disadvantaged children. [
What I think the Telegraph meant to say about A-Levels and University -
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director The Telegraph tells us today that: “hundreds of secondary schools did not produce a single pupil with high enough grades in tough academic subjects to win a place at elite universities.” I suspect this is nonsense. Here’s what I think they meant: Top universities have long produced lists of...
Sponsored academies *have* improved faster than other schools. But only a bit! -
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director Sponsored academies have improved more than other schools, but only by 0.7% when compared to similar schools.     The DfE press release yesterday reported that that results in sponsored academies had increased by 3.1% compared to 0.6% in other schools. This claim was repeated amongst others by The Guardian ...

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