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Grammar schools and Downton Abbey politics

Helen Gunter By Helen Gunter Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 16, 2016

This week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published its report comparing education systems worldwide and its Head of Education questioned the evidence for selection as a way of improving schools.  Those who attended grammar schools such as Theresa May, argues Helen Gunter, make claims disconnected from research evidence and based on their […]

Tagged With: education policy, grammar schools, inequality, MIE

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Consultants still playing a big role in government

Helen Gunter By Helen Gunter Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 2, 2014

Four years on from the bonfire of the quangos, non-elected consultants are still playing a significant role within government, says Prof Helen Gunter. The focus on leadership as the solution for improving public services continues to dominate reform. And aligned to this is the whole concept of ‘consultocracy’, a term first coined by Hood and Jackson to underline the […]

Tagged With: consultocracy, education, Hood and Jackson, michael barber, pat collarbone, tony mackay

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