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Education for All bill dropped but more changes may be on the horizon

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By: Esme Winch

Managing Director

Wednesday 16 November 2016

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The Education for All bill has been shelved this month, in a move by Education Secretary Justine Greening. This means that measures planned by her predecessor Nicky Morgan for all poor or low performing schools to convert to academies have now ended and the process for schools to convert is now voluntary.

The bill has been replaced by the Technical and Further Education Act 2016. The Act aims to set out extending the role of the Institute for Apprenticeships to cover school and college-based technical education as well as apprenticeships. This bill will then combine all current apprenticeship and further education reforms in one act of parliament.

Justine Greening has confirmed that there will be no further changes to education legislation during the current parliament, which gives the sector a little breathing room to embed the many changes that have still to be implemented into the curriculum. 

However, this being said, further changes may still be on the horizon for schools.

There still needs to be a bill to articulate the government’s plans for the expansion of Selective Schools. Plans and proposals have been outlined in the recent Green Paper (Schools that Work for Everyone), and any confirmation of this will have to be approved in parliament. Elements of the Education for All bill, specifically actions outlined in the previous government’s Educational Excellence Everywhere could be added to this legislation too.

With the issue of schools governance still a hot topic, we can expect further developments on these issues whilst the current government is in place (barring an early General Election of course) and we’ll be sure to keep you updated!

 

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