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SUMMARY:A new path for post-liberal schooling in the UK
DESCRIPTION:  \nSchools have rarely been out of the spotlight during the past 12 months\, but many of their problems long predate the pandemic. The inequality of provision; wrangles over the politics of class\, race and identity; the tunnel vision of examination grades and university entrance as the sole arbiters of success: these and more have bedevilled UK education for decades. \nMany of these problems are the result of the adoption into UK schools of ‘double-liberalism’. The creed of economic liberalism has turned school into a job training centre. What should be a public good has been twisted into a means of private advancement\, with social mobility for the few prioritised over an education that delivers for the many. Meanwhile\, social liberalism has done its best to hollow the school out as a potential site of meaning\, tradition and community. The curriculum is at once too academic and yet delivers none of the benefits of a traditional academic education\, even for its winners\, leaving the majority of school leavers culturally adrift. Notions of the other goals of an education – of training the character in virtue; of presenting to the growing mind a world of coherence; of helping students to appreciate the true\, the good and the beautiful – are lost. Meanwhile\, elite families send their children to a separate school system\, cutting their children off from the society of their compatriots\, whilst at the same time feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the notion of imbuing them with any sense of public service. \nAnd yet all is not lost. Some schools and educational thinkers shine out\, offering hope for how we can emerge from the pandemic with a school system that truly delivers for all. \nPanellists include: \n\nKatharine Birbalsingh\, Founder and Headmistress of Michaela Community School\nDominic Burbidge\, Founder of the Canterbury Institute\nMichael Merrick\, Executive Head\, St Ninian Catholic Federation\nJohn Milbank\, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and Founder of Radical Orthodoxy\nWill Orr-Ewing\, Founder of Keystone Tutors (Chair)
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/post-liberal-school/
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SUMMARY:Post Brexit food trade and food security
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe UK has finally agreed a deal with the EU\, and Brexit is now done. The ‘free trade and cooperation agreement’\, which came into operation on January 1st\, means no tariffs or quotas will be introduced on British food exports or European imports. While this sounds like good news for Britain’s food security\, British businesses and consumers are seeking assurance from Government that a limitless amount of perishable food products will continue to flow freely\, and that food will remain accessible and affordable for all. \nThis online event will discuss the new trade deal with Europe and what this really means for food producers and consumers in the UK: \n\nHow do we remove the technical barriers to imports and exports\, to avoid a major food supply crisis\, protect UK producers and prevent a rise in the cost of food?\nHow do we ensure that UK producers continue to recruit the workers they need to carry on feeding the nation?\nHow can future trade relationships with the EU and the rest of the world help the UK maintain its high standards of food production? \nHow can food businesses and Government work together to put safe\, nutritious\, and affordable food on every table and eradicate food poverty?\n\nPanellists include: \n\nRanil Jayawardena MP\, Minister for International Trade\nRichard Griffiths\, Chief Executive\, British Poultry Council\nNick von Westenholz\, Director\, Trade and Business Strategy\, NFU\nPhillip Blond\, Director\, ResPublica (Chair)
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/post-brexit-food-trade-and-food-security/
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SUMMARY:Lifelong Education Commission Launch
DESCRIPTION:You can find Chris Skidmore’s full speech here. \nFormer Universities Minister Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP will launch a new Lifelong Education Commission at ResPublica. \nThe Commission will seek to recommend how barriers to lifelong learning can be removed\, what future investment is needed to support this and what regulatory change is needed to ensure the maximum possible flexibility that will benefit learners. \nThe commission will also focus not only on the needs of the post-18 system\, and how this needs to be designed so that both Higher and Further Education institutions are valued\, but how the individual learner can be better empowered to make decisions and undertake their learning. Lessons can be learnt from abroad as well as mistakes made in the past\, but post-Covid\, the need to act differently than what has gone before will be essential. \nThe event will cover: \n\n\nQualification Reform: what existing qualifications\, such as degree apprenticeships\, need to be reformed to ensure they perform better? Flexible learning is essential for the future but will only work if the qualifications themselves are as flexible. How can this be achieved?\nRole of Universities in delivering Level 4/5 education as well as bitesize courses. Existing institutions can help roll out provision\, what is needed to enhance this?\nRemote and online learning- how can this be harnessed better to deliver reform?\nCan we break down barriers between institutions to create a new form of ‘Open University’ that places power in the hands of learners to choose courses at different places of study?\nWho pays: how should lifelong learning be funded in the future?\nHow can business and industry benefit from flexible learning rather than see it as an imposition or an added nice extra?\nHow can a post-18 education system enhance provision from those affected by educational failure?\n\nPanellists include: \n\nChris Skidmore MP\nProf. David Latchman\, VC\, Birkbeck University London\nProf. Edward Peck\, VC\, Nottingham Trent University\nPhillip Blond\, ResPublica (Chair)\n\nMore speakers TBC
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/lifelong-education-commission-launch/
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