{"id":4355,"date":"2024-04-17T12:31:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/?page_id=4355"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:34:29","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/act-now\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4355\" class=\"elementor elementor-4355\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36830b84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36830b84\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Act Now: Education<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4f55b5d2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4f55b5d2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b0151c0\" data-id=\"1b0151c0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ab33f45 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https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Education-1054x1536.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/commonsensepolicygroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Education.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">\"Act Now: Education\" by the Common Sense Policy Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c400091\" data-id=\"7c400091\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-601aff70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"601aff70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Britain\u2019s education system frequently fails to produce the outcomes\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">we need. Our children are seldom equipped with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">skills necessary for the challenges they will face across their\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">lives. In the state school sector, there is an obsession with a small\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">number of subjects to the detriment of the diversity of experience\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and knowledge needed to engage with a rapidly developing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">society. This system is associated with unhappiness and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">poor health outcomes in both children and teachers, not least\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">because they know that those who can afford to pay for education\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">are likely to leapfrog state school pupils for reasons that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">have very little to do with merit. In order to have an educational\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">system that facilitates democratic processes and realises the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">potential of all children, reforms are required at all levels. We\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">need a system that prioritises care, consideration and cooperation\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">across the sector, with a significant increase in educational\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">spending to level the playing field and reduce the\u00a0 segregation\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">that concentrates wealth and opportunity in an ever smaller\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and more detached part of society. Here, we set out means of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">broadening and balancing the curriculum to produce healthy,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">happy children capable of repairing our society in adulthood\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and creating democratic structures that restore and recognise\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">teachers\u2019 professionalism.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c29134 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c29134\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31dd9d26\" data-id=\"31dd9d26\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-681c43fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"681c43fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Recommendations<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-11f454c6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"11f454c6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-719841b7\" data-id=\"719841b7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f2b9f73 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f2b9f73\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol>\n<li>Prioritise care, consideration and cooperation and reduce the cliff-edge implications of assessment that harm pupils\u2019 health and wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>Increase school spending by at least 9%, sixth form spending by 23%, further education spending by 14% and higher education spending by 18% to return to pre-austerity levels.<\/li>\n<li>Remove distortionary forces by removing private school charitable status, prohibiting profit making in the sector and merging public and private provision.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce educational segregation and value social diversity by granting local authorities direct control over admissions policy.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure all children have a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our children to rebuild our society as adults.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce democratic structures and remove the arbitrary power of wealthy actors in order to ensure that experts direct education in consultation with communities.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that teachers are graduates with core academic capacities to guide our children through education.<\/li>\n<li>Take active steps toward removal of higher and further education tuition fees to achieve a level playing field after five years, removing the ideological experiment that has burdened our younger generations in ways that are projected to last their lifetimes. While this takes place, sixth form, further education and higher education students will receive additional support from the basic income element of the social safety net, providing a replacement for the Education Maintenance Allowance discontinued under the coalition government.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act Now: Education &#8220;Act Now: Education&#8221; by the Common Sense Policy Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/) Britain\u2019s education system frequently fails to produce the outcomes\u00a0we need. Our children are seldom equipped with the\u00a0skills necessary for the challenges they will face across their\u00a0lives. 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