PolicyMeet Manchester

The Education Foundation &

Labour Teachers

PolicyMeet Manchester

Tristram Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Education

Co-chairs: Ty Goddard, Co-founder, The Education

Foundation & John Blake, Co-founder, Labour Teachers

Speakers

Ros McMullen, Executive Principal, David Young Community

Academy in Leeds & CEO, LEAF Academy Trust

Tim Oates, Cambridge Assessment

James Eldon, Principal, Manchester Enterprise Academy

Jack Carney, Principal, Manchester College

Summer Turner, Head of English, East London Science School

Russell Hobby, General Secretary, NAHT

Laura McInerney, Deputy Editor, Academies Week

John Tomsett, Headteacher, Huntington School

Leora Cruddas, Head of Policy, ASCL

Venue and timings

Date: 20th September 2014

Time: 3.00pm - 5.00pm

Location: Manchester College, St Johns Centre,

New Quay Street, Manchester. M3 3BE

(5 minutes walk from the Labour Party Conference & outside the secure zone, so no pass required)

Background

The Education Foundation is the UK’s first cross sector education think tank, with a mission to help create a world class British education system. Co-founded by Ty Goddard and Ian Fordham in 2011 our work focuses on education reform, technology & innovation and helping to tackle the biggest policy challenges facing the system. We recently hosted the UK's first Education Reform Summit in July 2014 in partnership with the Department for Education as well as running major projects, collaborations and ventures with the education, policy and business sector.

Labour Teachers was established in 2011 to develop new ways of building dialogue between teachers in the Labour Party and policy-makers. Co-founded by John Blake and John Taylor we host discussions, roundtable meetings and innovative events to bring together party members at the chalkface together, with Labour’s education frontbench to share ideas and experiences.

PolicyMeet Manchester
This is the second PolicyMeet event run at the Labour Party conference - building on the successful event ran in Brighton in 2013 which was based on the TeachMeet format where grassroots teachers gather to share their experiences and work. The PolicyMeet gathers together educators, policy makers and politicians to share ideas that could potentially shape future policy and we are delighted to be running this event in Manchester at a crucial time in the lead up to the 2015 general election.

Book now

We expect demand for this event to be exceptionally high. To reserve a place at this free event, simply complete the order form above. For further details about the event, please contact the event organisers.

Partnerships

We are delighted to have Manchester College hosting this PolicyMeet event at their St Johns Campus in central Manchester, which is a short walk from the Labour Party conference and outside of the secure zone.