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Professor Toby SaltCEO, Ormiston Academies Trust
Towards the FutureReykjavik February 2015
The Teaching Profession, Leading the FutureHitting the target but missing the point?
About Toby
The world has changed
Education is a political football
What is our purpose as leaders and educators?What is the point of education?
The Teaching ProfessionLeading the Future
� A lack of teachers, and a lack of leaders� Overcoming disadvantage� Increasing globalisation –
and what this means for education
Challenges we face globally
Shortage of teachers and leaders
Tackling disadvantage
Globally, the world is changing...
How do we overcome these challenges?We might be hitting targets but missing the point.
UK Secretaries of Statefor Education
� 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
Structural change
Structural change
Academies and Free Schools
Teachers
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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)
Teachers
$68,000
How much are we paying teachers?
$27,000
$54,000
$42,800
Teachers
“Teachers really, really love their jobs… but they feel unvalued, under-recognised and unsupported.”
Julie Bélanger, OECD
Support our teachers
Leaders
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Average experience of lower secondary princials, 2013
Principal Other school management roles Teaching experience Years in jobs outside teaching
Times Educational Supplement, August 2014
Experience of our leaders
Leaders and the UK government
Class ratios
“Quality of teachers has a clearer impactthan 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 andearly childhood deficiencies
(ranked using all-GCSE measure)
Overcoming disadvantage andearly childhood deficiencies
The Economist, September 2014
Overcoming disadvantage andearly childhood deficiencies
“Excellence in education requires more than money”PISA 2012
Spending per student
OECD annual report 2014
Spending per student
What can we learn fromgeese?
What can we learn fromgeese?
� Parents must be encouraged, aided and supported to be better consumers.
� They need to be more demanding and clearer about what they want.
� How else can we address disadvantage?
Make parents tougherconsumers of education
We are all the people we’vebeen waiting for
We are all the people we’vebeen waiting for…
Professor Toby [email protected]