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.