Manchester Policy Week: Education Policy and Educational Inequalities
All the major political parties in England are currently committed to reducing educational inequalities. In recent years, the nature of policy intervention has shifted from Labour’s centrally-designed and often multi-agency programmes, to school-led interventions, targeting individuals and funded by the Pupil Premium. In both versions, socio-economic inequalities have been prioritised and inequality measured in terms of gaps in test scores. This wide-ranging conference will take a broader view of the problem of educational inequalities, looking beyond school and beyond the socio-economic dimension. Delegates may attend for the whole day or attend for individual sessions.
Schedule:
9:30am
Registration and coffee
10:00am-10:30am
Keynote address: What no Education Secretary wants to hear: uncomfortable propositions about policy and inequalities with Professor Ruth Lupton, Professor of Education , University of Manchester
10:45am-12:15am - Parallel Sessions
- Poverty and education
- Informational inequalities: do they exist and are they a problem for Manchester? Chaired by Dr Andrew Whitworth, The Univeristy of Manchester.
12:15-1:15pm
- Lunch break and outputs from Children’s Policy Workshop. See the outcome of an exciting and innovative workshop involving local school pupils, as they decide how their knowledge at KS2 should be assessed.
- Manchester musician, Jah Wobble, will also offer a 20 min personal perspective on socio-economic disadvantage, with a chance to ask questions.
1:15pm - 2:45pm - Parallel Sessions
- What is wellbeing and does it matter?
- Critical education poverty
- Inequalities in education (Note: 2pm-4pm at Manchester Central Library,
organised by the Centre of Dynamics in Ethnicity (CoDE)
3pm - 4:30pm - Parallel Sessions
- Schools, communities and educational inequalities: does policy help or hinder? Speakers include: Lynne Heath (principal) and Patsy Hodson, Manchester Communication Academy, Carol Powell (Principal), Gorton Mount Primary Academy, Phil Mellen (Principal), Stanley Grove Primary Academy, Professor Alan Dyson, University of Manchester and Sue Goldrick, University of Manchester
- The role of educational research into policy
4:30pm-5pm
Tea break
5pm - 6:30pm
Manchester Education Debate: Closing the Socio-Economic Gap: Where should policy go next? - Please email emma.carter-brown@manchester.ac.uk to register for this event. .
Organisers: Policy@Manchester, Manchester Institute of Education (MIE)
To confirm your attendance at this event please follow the registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-policy-week-education-policy-and-educational-inequalities-registration-12931609793
Speakers
Professor Ruth Lupton
Role: Professor of Education
Organisation: University of Manchester
Dr Drew Whitworth
Organisation: University of Manchester
Jah Wobble
Role: Manchester Musician
Lynne Heath
Organisation: Manchester Communication Academy
Carol Powell
Role: Principal
Organisation: Gorton Mount Primary Academy
Professor Alan Dyson
Organisation: University of Manchester
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