In the week before December’s general election, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) published its analysis of the manifesto plans for education (Andrews et al, 2019). Its executive director Natalie Perera concluded: “Our analysis shows that while each party has some well-designed and helpful policies, none has a properly evidence-based strategy to meet their ambitions. In order to address the inequality gap at age 16, parties should commit to policies which build on the evidence of what works.”
What this surely tells us is that we need a national strategy on education which is underpinned by evidence and which sets out key priorities with realistic timescales and costings.
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