Ministers often have a “limited policy agenda” to improve teaching, with structural reform considered more “easy”, a former head of the Department for Education has said.
Jonathan Slater, who was sacked over the 2020 exams fiasco after four years in post, made the comments on a panel at the Foundation for Education Development national education summit today.
He said education secretaries “always say” the best way to improve schools is good teaching and leadership, with “quite a lot of evidence” to back them up.
