Amanda Spielman is Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation. She chaired the exams regulator Ofqual from 2011 to 2016 and the schools inspector Ofsted from 2017 to 2023.
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Bridget Phillipson’s schools bill is back in the Commons today. The scope of the legislation is twofold: firstly, looking at the welfare of children in schools and secondly at fundamentally changing the landscape of secondary education by doing away with academies (and with it the legacy of the previous Conservative government on education). The plan
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Today’s GCSE results show an exams system that has largely returned to pre-Covid norms. It has also given the government a chance to talk about skills and apprenticeships – something that Bridget Phillipson’s predecessor as education secretary was also keen on. Cindy Yu talks to James Heale and Amanda Spielman, former chair of Ofqual and
