Best Practice

Case study: Regional education federations

School improvement
A federation of schools and colleges in Norfolk has become the first sub-regional federation of its kind in England. Dick Palmer explains.

Imagine a world in which school and college heads were free to focus all of their energies on enhancing teaching and learning, in which there was strong sub-regional collaboration to improve outcomes for all, and where there were clear progression routes with relevant pathways for all students.

An impossible ideal in today’s increasingly competitive and ever more fragmented education marketplace? Well this is precisely what is being created here in Norfolk, thanks to a new federation: Transforming Education in Norfolk (the TEN Group).

The TEN Group is the first sub-regionally based educational federation of its kind in England, although perhaps not for long as there is strong interest from schools and colleges elsewhere in the country in adopting the Norfolk model. So how does it work?

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