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Taking a lead: how to access the leadership premium

As plans for whole system structural reform have developed, much of the government’s education reform strategy has come to turn on its being able to capitalise a leadership premium.
 

Steps forward, steps backward: what to make of the government’s plans for higher education market reform

There has never been a period when higher education has faced so much turbulence and change as it is now, nor one for which both the sector and government are so ill-prepared.
 

CMRE Annual research digest 2015

Evidence-based policy has become somewhat of a catchphrase in politics – everybody is for it and nobody is against it. But there is evidence and there is evidence. For long, education policy has unfortunately been guided by research of poor quality, which in turn has contributed to confusion regarding what works and what does not work to generate higher pupil outcomes.

Collaborative overreach: why collaboration probably isn't key to the next phase of school reform

Collaboration between schools has come to be regarded as an important way in which they may find the means to improve their educational performance. Yet little is known definitively about what impact this has for improving pupil attainment.

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