ASCL Annual Conference: Leading the System

Hilton Birmingham Metropole

Date(s): 23/03/2012 to 24/03/2012 (2 Day Event)

Keynote speakers to include

Rt Hon Michael Gove MP
Secretary of State for Education

Estelle Morris
Baroness Estelle Morris of Yardley

Steve Munby
Chief Executive, The National College

Michael Wilshaw
HM Chief Inspector, Ofsted

Andreas Schleicher
Head of Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD

Robert Peston
BBC Business Editor

Marcus Orlovsky
Director, Bryanston Square

Joan McVittie
ASCL President

Brian Lightman
ASCL General Secretary

Debate

Do we need a new national curriculum?

Speakers to include:
Tim Oates
Chair of the Expert Panel National Curriculum Review

John Bangs
Formerly Assistant Secretary, NUT

Gerard Kelly Editor
Times Education Supplement

Seminar sessions

Wide ranging and interactive, delegates will have the opportunity to attend three different sessions of greatest interest.

Thought provoking and challenging speakers, who are experts in their field, have been invited to lead the sessions covering topics such as:

The new Ofsted Framework
Teaching Schools: the initial experience
Cooperation - partnerships and collaboration or competition?
Do Local Authorities still have a role to play?
Update on curriculum and qualifications
Using the ‘engine room of the school' to Lead the System
Behaviour: the current climate
Delivering national collaboration through information sharing
The future of Higher Education
Revising the 16-19 funding formula
What next after City Challenge?
Policy versus reality: the NLE/NSS programme
The importance of engaging with stakeholders and developing new partnerships
Education for apocalypse? How "making do" may be good for innovation, resourcefulness and resilience
Interference or a force for good?
Can businesses work with schools in a genuinely constructive way?
Leading the system ... to what? Creating the right school for the future
The growing impact of academy chains
Update for branch secretaries
What a national fair funding formula might mean for our schools
Personal access to technology for all - achievable, affordable, sustainable
Employment Law: what do I need to know?
Leading two schools - Executive Headship: Golden Opportunity or Poisoned Chalice?
Lessons from "It's a Wonderful Life": Transforming outcomes in challenging circumstances
Update on Teachers' Pensions
Performance Management and the new standards
The new Ofsted Framework REPEAT

Business Management update

Friday morning 10.00 - 12 noon
For those wishing to attend the business management update only there will be no charge.