Ruskin College Speech

The Great Education Debate 40 Years On #LiminalLeadership

Prior to the 1980s, education was very much a local issue set within the context of the 1944 Education Act.  A move to comprehensive schools in the 1960s was arguably the major event.  How times have changed.  Like many people of my age, I have been honed, damaged and shaped by an era of increasingly pernicious accountability and the confused autonomy granted to us by successive governments.  Continue reading →