Eight years on from David Hargreaves' first think pieces on a self-improving school system, this paper, written in collaboration with Teaching Schools Council and Browne Jacobson, dives into what may be next for the future of the school system.
The early signs of a self-improving school system can be found prior to 2010, for example with the introduction of national leaders of education. However, it was the 2010 White Paper ‘The Importance of Teaching’ which set out a plan to establish a national network of teaching schools as part of the policy aim of developing a self-improving school system. In the same year, the Academies Act established the legislative context for the extraordinary rise of autonomous schools and groups of schools that has characterised the last eight years of the English education system.
