Primary Review: notice of next group of interim reports - 'Governance, Funding, Reform and Quality Assurance'

The next group of interim reports from the Primary Review is published today, 29 February 2008. Copies of these and of the full reports may be downloaded from the Primary Review website.

The following documents have been published:

• Governance, Funding, Reform and Quality Assurance: policy frameworks for English primary education. Overview briefing on research surveys 3/2, 4/3, 10/1 and 10/2.
• Research survey 10/2, The Governance and Administration of English Primary Education, by Maria Balarin and Hugh Lauder.
• Research survey 10/1, The Funding of English Primary Education, by Philip Noden and Anne West.
• Research survey 4/3, Quality Assurance in English Primary Education, by Peter Cunningham and Philip Raymont.
• Research survey 3/2, The Trajectory and Impact of National Reform: curriculum and assessment in English primary schools, by Dominic Wyse, Elaine McCreery and Harry Torrance.
• Plus separate briefings on each of the above reports.

Please feel free to forward this message and the attachments to others. Following the extensive media coverage of our previous interim reports, we want today’s reports to reach the widest possible audience in order to provoke discussion which will feed back into the Review as we begin to pull the evidence together in preparation for our final report, which we hope to publish towards the end of 2008. We would therefore be glad to hear what you think about the issues raised: email evidence@primaryreview.org.uk .

As on previous occasions, we stress that these reports have been commissioned as evidence to the Review and we are publishing them in order to encourage discussion and debate. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Primary Review itself, and we shall reserve judgement on their findings until we have assessed the full array of evidence.

Robin Alexander
Director, The Primary Review