Sunday Times - Festival Of Education

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The Sunday Times
Festival of Education
2013

Come and help change the future of education

The Sunday Times Festival of Education – An unmissable event for academics, teachers, policy-makers, parents, students and anyone who cares about education

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Goals of the Festival
Having cemented itself as the UK’s premier forum for thought leadership, innovation and development in the field of education, the Sunday Times Festival of Education continues to attract the very best of education’s most forward thinking advocates, practitioners of change and policy makers.
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Speakers Include
Alongside A-list speakers from the world of education, business, politics and
entertainment, The Sunday Times Festival of Education will also feature world-class organisations that will be joining us to run workshops and shape the programme to cover all the major issues in education today. Read More…

Target Audience
The Sunday Times Festival of Education is aimed at everyone interested and involved in education, be they parents, teachers, lecturers and students. The Festival will cut through the jargon to provide you with sound and accessible advice about the key issues involved in education. We have brought together a vast range of speakers, all experts in their fields, to stimulate debate and answer your questions about schools, universities…and beyond. Read More…

Some of our high profile speakers include

Michael Gove

Secretary of State for Education

Stephen Twigg

Shadow Education Secretary and the Labour and Co-operative MP for Liverpool West Derby

John Lloyd

British television producer, and writer best known for originating the comedy television programmes Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder, and QI

Michael Wilshaw

Sir Michael Wilshaw is currently Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector at Ofsted. Previously he was Executive Principal of Mossbourne Community Academy

“The Festival of Education is the Hay-on-Wye of education”

David Willetts

Minister for Universities and Science

A C Grayling

Master of the New College of the Humanities and author and journalist

Ben Hammersley

British writer and technologist, specializing in the effects of the internet and the ubiquitous digital network on the worldʼs political, cultural and social

Katie Price

Self-made businesswoman, author, model and mother to her Autistic son Harvey, about whom she will be speaking

Will Kennard

One half of the band and production duo, Chase & Status. He is also a founding member of The East London Academy of Music