Public First has worked with Eton College and Star Academies to launch the “Eton Star Partnership” – a major new education think tank that will bring together the expertise of both organisations to develop and deliver solutions that dismantle barriers to achievement. The new organisation will have three aims:
- Commissioning and publishing research that generates new insight on the key barriers that hold young people back from realising their potential. Importantly, it will work with schools, colleges, universities, sector organisations and international partners to ensure that its findings inform policy, investment and school practice.
- A comprehensive learning exchange to stimulate best practice and spur growth and development of the sector. The Eton Star Partnership will gather the most influential school system leaders and solution-focused educational thinkers in the country to explore current issues and influence policy. Today’s conference at Eton College’s Dorney Lake is the first of this conference programme. A network of Lighthouse Institutions will be created to enrich the country’s architecture of educational CPD and research and play an important role in shaping national policy.
- An innovation hub which puts research into practice on the ground and incubates high ambition, high impact initiatives which can be scaled up. At its core will be the three Eton Star sixth form colleges, which Public First has also worked to support
Alongside the launch of the new organisation, Public First has also worked with Eton and Star, and the Education Policy Institute, to publish a new study on the motivations and drivers of highly attaining GCSE students who don’t go on to university.
