The answers aren’t easy but everyone has their hands up

New on Lucid Magazine this month...

New Labour’s education record is patchy but are the coalition’s reforms asking the right questions? Athena Kugblenu attends a RSA debate to see for herself.

http://www.lucidpolitics.co.uk/2010/09/16/answers-arent-easy-hands/

The event:

In September 2010, BBC Two presents a major season on education, focusing on our schools, the tough choices parents have to make and whether we could all do better.Join the RSA and the BBC for a debate to explore the issues further and to ask - where next for our children’s education? Speakers: Professor Dylan Wiliam - Deputy Director of the Institute of Education and presenter of The Classroom Experiment (a BBC production), Toby Young - journalist and contributor to Start Your Own School (a Renegade Pictures production), Amanda Blue - series director and producer of The Big School Lottery series (a Blast Films production), and Sir William Atkinson - Executive Headteacher of Phoenix High School.Chair: Matthew Taylor, Chief executive, RSA