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SUMMARY:Regional School Commissioners and England’s school system: state
 -funded but developed and managed in private? - Warwick Mansell
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CONTACT:Louise Johns-Shepherd
DESCRIPTION:Education journalist\, Warwick Mansell\, is our guest at the n
 ext LfL Supper Seminar in July 2014. This supper seminar will consider wha
 t seems to have been the Department for Education’s central concern sinc
 e the coalition came to power in 2010: the drive to get as many schools as
  possible to become academies. Specifically\, it will focus on the recent\
 , hardly-discussed\, development of a new form of school organisation - th
 e Regional Schools Commissioner system\, which will oversee all academies 
 and free schools from September - to ask questions about transparency and 
 public accountability.\n\nTo what extent does the public get a say in the 
 running of our schools? Do only politicians\, headteachers and semi-privat
 e sponsors get meaningful influence? Are these now supposed to be the new 
 guardians of the public interest\, and what happens when things go wrong? 
 Drawing on internal documents which have set out some of the DfE’s think
 ing\, including worries\, about its new structure\, these are some of the 
 questions the session will ask.\n\nWarwick started his career in the 1990s
  with the Cambridge Evening News\, latterly as its\neducation corresponden
 t. He spent nine years at the Times Educational Supplement\, before leavin
 g in 2009 to go freelance. He writes a regular diary column in the Guardia
 n’s education pages and a blog for the National Association of Head Teac
 hers. He was shortlisted for the 2008 Private Eye/Guardian Paul Foot award
  for investigative/campaigning journalism for his work on Sats testing. Hi
 s book\, 'Education by Numbers: the Tyranny of Testing'\, was published in
  2007.
LOCATION:Room GS4\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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