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Education ‘paralysed’ by a lack of trust

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Ensuring achievement for all students, building the professional skills of teachers, and promoting collaboration among institutions. These are the three “building blocks” that must be placed “at the heart” of system improvement, school leaders have said.

However, they have urged the government to show more trust in schools and to foster a culture of collaboration in order that the profession can be allowed to drive school improvement.

The calls have come after the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) published the findings of its recent Great Education Debate.

The initiative ran during the last academic year and engaged with the profession and wider education sector with the aim of fostering agreement about how to further improve our schooling system.

The resulting 84-page publication, entitled Leading for the Future, includes essays and contributions from a range of leading educationalists as well as school leaders, teachers and students.

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