Billed as an ‘Inconvenient Truth’ for education, a new documentary from Lord Puttnam and Sir Michael Barber is exploring the UK education system.

Good News from the LSC?
This is not a headline anyone in the Learning and Skills sector would have expected following the LSC Capital project difficulties, which have left several colleges facing financial difficulties, and the Train 2 Gain funding shortfall which has strained the solvency of many work based learning providers.
But perhaps the LSC [...]

Catering for individual students who find it hard to engage in a traditional school environment can be difficult for overstretched schools. There are several organisations out there designed to help with just this problem, helping to engage pupils and therefore avoid increasing disinterest which can lead to truancy and drop-outs.

What Comes Next?
The Channel 4 Education Summer conference gathered together an eclectic mix of digital media and education professionals to consider how the UK Education system “struggles to respond to ever increasing demands, new policy initiatives, new demands from parents and students, and all the innovations in pedagogy, technology and neuroscience.”
This was a timely event [...]