Hitting the target but missing the point Professor Toby Salt CEO, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Hitting the target but missing the point Professor Toby Salt CEO, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Hitting the target but missing the point Professor Toby Salt CEO, Ormiston Academies Trust About T oby What is our purpose as leaders and educators? What is the point of education? intelligence plus character Martin Luther King 1947
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What is our purpose as leaders and educators? What is the point of education? “intelligence plus character”
Martin Luther King 1947
Challenges we face globally
- 1. A lack of great teachers, and a lack of great leaders
- 2. Overcoming disadvantage
- 3. Increasing globalisation –
and what this means for education
- 1. Shortage of teachers & leaders
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Africa and Arab States Ireland, Finland, Scotland
- 2. Tackling disadvantage
- 3. Globally, the world is changing…
How do we overcome these challenges…? We might be hitting targets but missing the point.
UK Secretaries of State for Education
Structural change
- 16,788 primary
schools
- 3,329 secondary
schools
- 2,600+ private schools
- 1,033 special schools
- 4,170 of these school
are academies
Education System in England
T eachers
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Finland France Germany Italy New Zealand UK US Under 30 years 30-39 years 40-49 years 50-59 years 60 years and over
How old are our teachers?
OECD (2013) and Times Educational Supplement, September (2014)
T eachers
Finland $42,800 Switzerland $68,000 9/65 Germany $54,000 25/65
How much are we paying teachers?
Support our teachers
Teachers really, really love their jobs…but they feel unvalued, under-recognised and unsupported.” Julie Bélanger, OECD
Leaders
Experience of our leaders
5 10 15 20 25 30
Average experience of lower secondary princials, 2013
Principal Other school management roles Teaching experience Years in jobs outside teaching
Times Educational Supplement, August 2014
Leaders and the UK government
“Quality of teachers has a clearer impact than class size” Andreas Schleicher - PISA
Class sizes and pupil-teacher ratios
“Because of its strong links to earnings, employment, overall wealth and the well-being of individuals, education can reduce inequalities in societies, but it can also reproduce them.” OECD 2014
Overcoming disadvantage
(ranked using all-GCSE measure)
Overcoming disadvantage
1 in 1000 FSM go to Oxbridge
Overcoming disadvantage and educational attainment
[The Economist, September 2014]
Spending per student
“Excellence in education requires more than money” PISA 2012
Spending per student
2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 Mexico Chile Hungary Slovak Republic Czech Republic Estonia Poland Israel Portugal New Zealand Korea Italy Slovenia Spain Finland France Japan Ireland Australia United Kingdom Belgium Netherlands Sweden Austria Denmark Norway Switzerland United States
Spending per student
[OECD annual report 2014]
Moving forward
- Addressing disadvantage and raise
aspirations
- Making parents tougher consumers of
education
- Recruiting and retaining our teachers
- Working together
- Invest in our staff and in our service
- Influencing policy makers