Leading experts like Sir Michael Barber and organizations like the OECD and McKinsey, have shown us time and again that the top performing nations have several key attributes in common:

• First, they value and respect their teachers and employ the very best people in their classrooms;
• Second, they step back and let schools get on with it, free from bureaucratic control;
• Third, they encourage collaboration between schools; and
• Fourth, they hold schools to account in an intelligent way."

Nick Gibb MP,  Schools Minister