Learning Objectives

Success Criteria

How will the broader educational landscape influence tour school context and need?

What impact does this information have on a) the questions you answered earlier and b)
what you know about your school

Local authorities used to have complete power over educational institutions.

The secret garden speech nobody knew what was going on in schools. They were not held
accountable to anybody.

More power has gone to central government and devolved to schools.

The standards v structure debate

Standards what is taught assessment, curriculum

Structure how is it taught staffing, budget, delivery

Late 1980s devolving of school finances to individual head teachers, schools could divorce
local authorities and were funded directly by the central government.

Structure national curriculum, league tables, Ofsted

Tony Blair standards not structure