SEP 05
Academics and Policymakers
Sample contentWhat should education become?
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Summary
Academics and policymakers respond to the student conversation. The discussion moves from diagnosis to design: if the constraint is assessment, what would credible alternatives look like — and what would it take for policy to permit them at scale?
Key questions
- What should education optimise for when content is freely available?
- What evidence would convince a regulator to permit alternative assessment?
Important observations
- Educators and students converge on the same diagnosis from opposite directions.
- Policy participants stress that pilots with honest measurement move faster than mandates.
Where we agreed
- Teacher development is under-invested relative to its leverage.
- Pilots need published results — success or failure — to build policy credibility.
Where we disagreed
- How much standardisation is compatible with genuine learner agency.
Proposed solutions
- Teacher-led learning circles with dedicated time inside the working week.
- A published evidence protocol for every Beyond Syllabus pilot.
Transcript
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