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Education Reform in England
David Miliband MP
Minister of State for School Standards
• Current Situation
• Challenges
• Next Steps
Two Very Different Countries
• National Curriculum
• National Tests and Exams
• National Inspectorate
• National Accountability
• National Funding
400 450 500 550
Japan
Korea
New Zealand
Finland
Australia
Canada
Sw itzerland
UK
France
Ireland
US
Germany
Spain
Italy
We are now performing better than the OECD average at age 15
SOURCE: OECD Programme for international student assessment (PISA) 2000
400 450 500 550
Finland
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Ireland
Korea
UK
Japan
France
US
Sw itzerland
Spain
Italy
Germany
OECD AVERAGE
READING MATHS400 450 500 550
Korea
Japan
Finland
UK
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Ireland
France
US
Sw itzerland
Spain
Germany
Italy
SCIENCE
OECD AVERAGE OECD AVERAGE
98
81
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
But our socio-economic gap is wider
SOURCE: OECD Programme for international student assessment (PISA) 2000
First Term
• Primary Schooling
• Teachers
• Infrastructure
• Excellence in Cities
Key Stage 2
(provisional)
Those that have least improved mostKS2 English : % pupils gaining L4 plus - change from 1996 -2001
% pupils who are eligible for free school meals
above 50%>35% to 50%>20% to 35%>8% to 20%8% or less
% p
oin
t ch
ange
fro
m 1
996
to 2
001
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
-10
-20
-30
“I am not suggesting that going from good to great is easy … I am
asserting that those who strive to turn good into great find the process no more painful or exhausting than
those who settle for just letting things wallow along in mind-numbing
mediocrity.”Jim Collins, Good To Great, 2001, p205
Challenges
KNOWLEDGE POOR
PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT
NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION
KNOWLEDGE RICH
2000s Informed
professional judgement
1970s Uninformed professional judgement
1990s Informed
prescription
1980s Uninformed prescription
Beyond the Classroom
Workforce Reform
Leadership
StructuresTeaching
& Learning
'Real terms' Recurrent Unit Funding per 4-19 year old pupil 1996-97 to 2005-06
£2,8
30
£2,8
30
£2,8
70 £2,9
80
£3,1
80
£3,3
90
£3,5
20
£3,7
40
£3,8
00
£3,9
50
£2,500
£3,500
1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Education, Education, Education.