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Education & Arts Publications
Social Enterprise Schools: A potential profit-sharing model for the state-funded school system
James GrovesThis report says that the government should consider allowing private companies to set up and run schools under a social enterprise model. Allowing private providers to take over the running of publicly run schools will create new places at a time when there is a severe shortage in many parts of the country.
Vocational Value: The role of further education colleges in higher education
Ralph HartleyThere are many challenges facing the government and all providers of higher education and higher skills. This report looks at three problems, and argues that Further Education Colleges can play a strong role in responding to all three.
Best Behaviour: School discipline, intervention and exclusion
Alex Massey and James GrovesBest Behaviour proposes policies on discipline and exclusion which will protect those pupils whose education is harmed by the misbehaviour of others, whilst ensuring that the needs of all children are effectively addressed.
Room at the Top: Inclusive education for high performance
Policy ExchangeRead Publication Everyone wants a high performing education system but how to secure it is a hotly debated. In the UK we structure for educational mediocrity and we achieve it. We assume that that only a minority of advantaged children can reach high levels of...
Higher Education in the Age of Austerity: Shared Services, Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship
Alex MasseyUniversities could reduce potential student debt or protect teaching and research by being more imaginative about how they are run. The study calls for the HE sector to outsource functions like maintenance and accommodation that have little to do with education.
Special Educational Needs: Reforming provision in English schools
Ralph HartleyThis report considers potential reforms to the approach to SEN in England in the context of broader educational issues and policy changes. It also considers specific problems such as what SEN is, and how the government should approach inclusion before making further recommendations to improve assessment, funding and provision.
Faith Schools We Can Believe In: Ensuring that tolerant and democratic values are upheld in every part of Britain’s education system
Alice HarberFaith Schools We Can Believe In proposes key structural, legislative and contractual changes to the way in which both the Department for Education and Ofsted work in preventing schools coming under extremist influence.
Designing Student Loans To Protect Low Earners
Policy ExchangeDesigning Student Loans To Protect Low Earners outlines a new way to run student loans that will save taxpayers’ money while making sure that everyone equipped with enough talent and ambition can go to university. The proposals would see interest repayments on loans match the actual cost of borrowing by the Government.
Higher Education in the Age of Austerity: The role of private providers
Alex Massey and Greg MunroWe believe strongly that access to university title should be decided according to an institution’s quality, and not its legal status, so we recommend that the government immediately end this institutionalised discrimination against private higher education providers.
