Having always been clear that education is one of the key ingredients of the Northern Powerhouse, a contender with skills for the most critical, I am clear that as a Partnership the most important report we have published was Educating the North. It highlighted the detail of the education divide between pupils in the north and those elsewhere in England which then creates barriers for those young people to go into more productive, higher paid careers.
My thoughts for Forum Strategy on the importance of place and community engagement
Those of us with rather longer careers than we would want to be reminded of will remember the contribution to education made by Prof John Tomlinson. The Guardian obituary in August 2005 described him as ‘a prophet’ principally for his ability to anticipate and pioneer...
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