Professor Ainscow
A radical reorganisation of Greater Manchester's education system has resulted in unprecedented improvements in test and exam results, especially among children and young people previously regarded as unreachable. The scheme brings together schools and colleges, local authorities, community organisations, businesses and national government within a new approach to educational improvement. It has given the opportunity for its Director, Professor Mel Ainscow from The University of Manchester, to put into practice the findings of ten years of his research into the improvement of urban schools. Following an initial phase of three years, new structures now exist that are helping to improve the performance of all schools, across the ten local authorities. The structures - Families of Schools, school to school partnerships and National Teaching Schools - are coordinated by 18 outstanding head teachers from across the city region. In this week's GCSE results, the Greater Manchester average score shows a 6% pt improvement on 2009, and a huge 11% pts since 2007, exceeding the national picture by far. In addition, the number of schools securing results above 70% in Key Stage 4 - the official benchmark for 'outstanding' - more than doubled.
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