Up early for a 1 hour journey to Reading, the home of the charitable trust CfBT, which started life as the Centre for British Teachers but today is a large and diverse provider of Education services both in the UK and internationally. One of its valued clients is guess who? ..the Aussie government, via AusAid. But I digress, as did the erudite and amusing Director of Education, Tony McAleavy. His experience ranges over education reform projects in the Gulf States and the Middle East, as an Ofsted inspector in England, strategy and implementation of the CfBT academy schools and an extensive research program. He is seriously into 'education metrics' as he calls it and his favourite quote is 'don't quote me!'. topics of interest were accountability in a decentralised schooling system and incremental versus radical reform. You will have to read my Churchill report in December to learn more...
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