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Grammar school plans: a dangerous distraction

By Mel Ainscow Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 14, 2016

It’s rare for a public policy consultation paper to shock, but proposals from the UK Government to expand the provision of grammar schools have caused a storm of protest. Mel Ainscow believes this is a dangerous distraction and argues that more collaboration in schools, not increasing segregation, is what our children need.      The decision […]

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

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National policies are fuelling segregation in primary schools

By Mel Ainscow Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 13, 2016

Responding to pupil diversity is a key policy challenge for schools, nationally and locally.  But is our education system working in a way that supports this aim?  No, say professors Mel Ainscow CBE and Alan Dyson, who have found that national polices are actually preventing primary schools from responding effectively to increased diversity in the […]

Tagged With: diversity, education policy, ethnic diversity, MIE

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Clearing up the mess in the English school system

By Mel Ainscow and Alan Dyson Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: April 29, 2015

New proposals for the reform of the English education system are outlined in a report written by Mel Ainscow CBE and Alan Dyson, Professors of Education and co-directors of the Centre for Equity in Education at The University of Manchester, and their colleagues Sue Goldrick and Dr Kirstin Kerr. The English school system is in […]

Tagged With: education, MIE

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