“The key to improving our education system isn’t endless diktats from government, but the innovations that come from the ground – from networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards and improve outcomes for young people. That’s what we mean when we talk about a self-improving, school-led system.”
These words aren’t those of ASCL, though we very much endorse them, but of education secretary Nicky Morgan in a speech last year.
The reason for quoting them here is that they seem so completely at odds with one of the first actions of the new government elected in May – announcing that every pupil will have to sit GCSEs in the five English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects.
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