New and continuing perspectives - a Vice Chancellor

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New and continuing perspectives- a Vice
Chancellors viewProfessor Les Ebdon CBE,
Vice Chancellor and Chief ExecutiveUniversity
of Bedfordshire
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• the best place in the world for our children and
  
• young people to grow up
• Ed Balls
• John Denham
• Foreword to NCEE report October 2008

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NCEE Report

• 4 strands
• Business
• Higher Education
• Partners
• Parents
• 17 recommendations

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Business

• business-education partnership
• member of leadership team to be responsible
• focus on schools in the National Challenge
• promote good practice
• include in every Children and Young Peoples Plan

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Higher education

• more IAG, Ofsted benchmarked
• every primary school pupil to visit HE
• provision of better STEM skills
• Information Advice and Guidance
• - senior member of staff responsible
• - HEIs provide advice
• - better advice on 14-19 choices
• - inform about selective universities
• - publicity to highlight advantages of HE
• comprehensive widening participation strategies
• open, accessible admissions policies
• review data on A before using it

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Partnerships between providers

• High performing initiatives to support others
• Specialist Schools strengthen partnership to
  raise standards
• Outstanding leaders to support (or lead) others
• Inspection to reflect partnership work
• Independent and maintained schools and LAs to
  work together

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Parents

• place high quality parental engagement at the
  heart of the
• system through effective support for
  professionals

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HE Ambassadors Group- monitored implementation

• WPSAs ?
• Admissions ?
• A ?
• Schools engagement ?

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STEM remains a major challenge

• Royal Society report
• The UKs science and mathematics
• teaching workforce 2007

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• Government statistics under-estimate problem
• Need better recruitment and retention data
• Targets missed but these may be too low too

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• Need for inspirational teachers
• More practical work
• This means more support

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The elephants in the room

• 16-19 reforms
• Integrated science
• Connexions
• Fair access versus widening participation

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The mastodon in the room

• - Purpose of education

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The growing elephant in the room

• - Reductions in public expenditure

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Some especial challenges in teacher education

• TDA quotas
• Government requirements
• Ofsted
• Challenging demography
• Supply side problems
• Poor workforce planning
• Constraints on internationalisation
• Rising expectations, e.g. BSF

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Key role of teacher education

• Our supply chain
• CPD challenges
• Evidence-based

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• A teacher affects eternity
• Henry Adams