The Condition and Future of Primary Education

Event Name The Condition and Future of Primary Education
Start Date 19th Oct 2009 6:00pm
End Date 19th Oct 2009 7:30pm
Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes
Description Download a copy of Robin Alexander's speech text.


The RSA, Cambridge Primary Review and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation host a public event to launch the debate about the final report of the Cambridge Primary Review.

Join a panel of expert commentators as they discuss the implications of the report for teachers, schools, local authorities, national policy, children and childhood.

Speakers: Robin Alexander, Director of the Cambridge Primary Review; Mick Brookes, General Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers; Professor Mary James, formerly Deputy Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme; Roger Luxton, recently-retired Director of Children’s Services and Deputy Chief Executive, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham; Barry Sheerman MP, Chair, House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee; Dame Gillian Pugh, Chair of the National Children’s Bureau and of the Cambridge Primary Review Advisory Committee.

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