{"id":6535,"date":"2015-12-23T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2015-12-23T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:10:00","slug":"what-should-the-purpose-of-school-education-in-england-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/12\/23\/what-should-the-purpose-of-school-education-in-england-be\/","title":{"rendered":"What should the purpose of school education (in England) be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons\u00a0Education Select Committee has launched an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/education-committee\/news-parliament-2015\/purpose-quality-education-evidence-15-16\">inquiry<\/a> into the purpose and quality of education in England, with a call for written evidence [ deadline 25 January ] addressing the following points:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* What the purpose of education for children of all ages in England should be<br \/>\n* What measures should be used to evaluate the quality of education against this purpose<br \/>\n* How well the current education system performs against these measures<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alongside the call for evidence, there's a new online forum on the Committee website encouraging people to comment on the inquiry and submit their views. \u00a0A short video has been produced to start the discussion, and you can also join the conversation on Twitter by using #EduPurpose.<\/p>\n<p>This can\u00a0wait until the New Year. \u00a0Meanwhile \u2013 Happy Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons\u00a0Education Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the purpose and quality of education in England, with a call for written evidence [ deadline 25 January ] addressing the following points: * What the purpose of education...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}