This report considers understanding previous policies, how they worked, what went well, and what challenges were faced, essential to developing and delivering good policy. Each of the Learning from the Past reviews id focused on a specific historical policy.
A 2018 international comparative review by NFER, across 6 jurisdictions, on the relationship between accountability and curriculum. The researchers would prefer stronger data but even so, the wide range in approaches to accountability are clear, illustrating policy options, subtlety in thinking and unforeseen consequences.
Schools Week extract from Issue 312, dated 10th February 2023, with a very handy key to the status of each policy.
This is a 12 page tabular review of governance structures in 12 leading education jurisdiction compared to England. It documents the prevalence of long-term planning and the abundance of advisory bodies, wide consultation and strong supporting institutions.
In this short document Sam Freedom presents the case for an Education Policy Knowledge Centre, for politicians and practitioners. It looks at the problems inherent to education policy making, the solution of an evidence-based knowledge centre and presenting how the EPKC would work and integrate with existing bodies.
This is a 12 page tabular review of governance structures in 12 leading education jurisdiction compared to England. It documents the prevalence of long-term planning and the abundance of advisory bodies, wide consultation and strong supporting institutions.
This is a 11 page ppt plus appendices, examining 30 Institutions around the world which provide a measure of educational research, analysis, reviews and synthesis relating to education policy. The analysis shows that an EPKC would offer a unique position.
This is a 6 page analysis in tabular format, exploring 7 organisations that provide assistance to the NHS in policy development. It indicates that support for NHS policy making is vastly better supported than for Education.
This is a 8 page presentation documenting how in England evidence for practitioners is better mediated than evidence for policy makers. This contrasts with other jurisdictions where there are established institutions serving this need.
This publication is the lightly edited transcripts of conversations with nine former Secretaries of State. The aim of the interviews was to explore how they carried out their time in office, and reflections on it. It makes the case that education is too important to be purely within the gift of Ministers, and that the right type of environment – people, research, programmes, insight and intelligence – needs to be around them in order to support effective policymaking and address some of the most challenging problems within the system.
This report considers a framework for long-term, strategic planning of education policy: how education policy decisions might be best made, structures for planning and governance, who the decision makers should be, and how best to manage the complexities of education policy.
An overview of the Education Policy Knowledge Centre which would synthesise and present evidence and knowledge about system-level policy reform, from the UK and the rest of the world.
From the Office of the Secretary of State