What's wrong with our schools and how to reinvent them
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Parents, teachers, students and experts alike say that the UK’s education system desperately needs reform. The Times Education Commission has spent the past year trying to figure out how to fix it. Today, we take a look at the recommendations in its report from a more robust focus on children’s wellbeing and mental health to a broadening of the curriculum.
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Guests:
- Rachel Sylvester, Times columnist and chair of the Times Education Committee.
- Lucy Kellaway, teacher and commissioner.
- Nicola Noble, co-head teacher at Surrey Square Primary School.
- The pupils at Surrey Square Primary School.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Times Education Commission, Evening Standard, Children's Commissioner for England.
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| 0:30.0 | Britain's education system is in crisis. |
| 0:42.0 | A new poll by the National Education Union has found almost half of teachers in England |
| 0:48.0 | plans to quit their job in the next five years. |
| 0:52.0 | We know that one in seven five year olds in England fail more than half their developmental indicators in reception year. |
| 0:59.0 | There are more children with a probable mental health condition. |
| 1:03.0 | New figures released last year indicate this has now jumped to one in six children. |
| 1:09.0 | We also know that nearly one in five children reaches the age of 19 without getting five GCSEs |
| 1:15.0 | a technical equivalent or an apprenticeship. |
| 1:18.0 | No one can honestly believe that 20% of children are incapable of achieving basic qualifications. |
| 1:24.0 | It should be a national scandal. |
| 1:30.0 | Long before the pandemic hit, teachers, families and experts |
| 1:35.0 | were already warning that the education system wasn't working. |
| 1:41.0 | And then lockdown brought a whole host of new problems |
| 1:45.0 | from teachers suffering burnout to missed exams and the impact on students' mental health. |
| 1:51.0 | The system is now in urgent need of major reforms. |
| 1:57.0 | I worry that as an education system we are not genuinely putting children's wellbeing at the heart of what we do. |
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