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What are schools for?
How are we preparing young people for the future?
Monday 6th December
9.30am – 4.45pm
Grand Connaught Rooms, London
Welcome and introduction - Dr. John Dunford
Dr. Dunford will introduce the current education context, highlighting both the threats and opportunities for those concerned with education and working with young people and the role Whole Education can play.
Why we need an end to factory schools - Dr. Anthony Seldon
Dr. Seldon will explain why there is an urgent need for debate about the way education is heading, with the pressure on schools to create exam factories making it very difficult for school leaders and teachers to prepare young people for the 21st century.
What’s the point of school? - Prof. Guy Claxton
Prof. Claxton will address the fundamental question – what’s the point of school? If it is to prepare young people for the future, we need to rediscover the heart of education.
What are employers looking for? - Caroline Waters, BT
Caroline Waters, Head of People and Policy at BT, will provide an employer’s view on what skills, qualities and knowledge young people will need for the future, from the perspective of her own organisation.
Breakout sessions include:
- Whose curriculum is it anyway? (Dr Kevin Stannard, Director, University of Cambridge International Examinations)
- Applying the findings from the Nuffield 14-19 Review (Prof. Richard Pring, Director, Nuffield 14-19 Review of Education and Training)
- Big Society? Creating Communities for learning (Rob Robson, Sam Whitbread Community College)
- What are employability skills and how can schools provide them? (David Nicoll, Chief Executive, Studio Schools)
- Why we need happy, resilient young people - (Mark Williamson, Movement for Happiness)
- Improving engagement and outcomes for young people (David Price, Lead, Learning Futures, Paul Hamlyn Foundation)
- Applying findings from the Cambridge Primary Review - (Alison Peacock, Headteacher, The Wroxham School and National Network Leader of the Cambridge Primary Review)
- Big Society? Closer working between schools and third sector (John Bateman, Chair of 7KS, ex-Chief Executive, UK Youth)
- What skills, qualities and knowledge do young people need? (Marius Frank, CEO, ASDAN)
- Whole Education and implications for teaching (Julia Elliot, Head, Crosshall Junior School)
Panel Debate
Conference will close with a panel debate with keynote speakers discussing audience questions.
Costs
£145
(£75 for practitioners)
Booking and information
For more information please contact Charlotte on 0207 451 6837 or at charlotte@wholeeducation.org
When & Where
Grand Connaught Rooms
61 - 65 Great Queen Street
WC2B 5DA London
United Kingdom
Monday, December 6, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 4:45 PM (PT)
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