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Standards and Effectiveness Unit (SEU)

Overview

Background

The Standards Site is managed by the Department for Education and Skills' Standards and Effectiveness Unit (SEU). The SEU was established to implement the Government's policies for raising standards of education in schools in England.


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Remit

The Unit's key tasks include:

  • improving and sustaining standards of attainment by all pupils;
  • promoting diversity and innovation; and
  • monitoring performance in education and intervening where necessary.

    The Unit is also responsible for a number of innovative policy ventures, including:

    National Literacy Strategy LEA Policy and Improvement
    National Numeracy Strategy Education Development Plans
    Key Stage 3Local Public Service Agreements
    Excellence in Cities Beacon Councils
    Gifted and TalentedSchool Improvement
    School Diversity ProgrammesSchools in Special Measures
      Diversity PathfindersFresh Start
      Training schoolsThe Autumn Package of Pupil Performance Information
      Beacon SchoolsBoys' and Girls' Achievement
      Specialist SchoolsHomework
      AcademiesThe Research Informed Practise Site
    Education Action Zones Innovation Unit
    Study Support


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    Organisation

    The Head of the Standards and Effectiveness Unit is Professor David Hopkins. The SEU is divided into the following separate Divisions/Units: Pupil Standards Division (Andrew McCully), School Performance and Accountability Division (Nick Baxter), Leadership and Teacher Development Division (Richard Harrison), The Innovation Unit (Mike Gibbons) and Education Advisers (David Woods). The SEU Communication and Management Unit (Sue Dasey) works across the SEU.

    The SEU has 17 Education Advisers who are externally recruited from a range of roles and experiences including school headship, inspection and advisory services, and LEA senior management. This approach provides an overall spread of education and management expertise to meet our business needs. They work with shared objectives alongside other civil service colleagues and Regional Directors for the National Literacy, Numeracy and Key Stage 3 Strategies, as part of the SEU. There are currently 16 territorial Education Advisers who link to specific LEAs and to the Government Office regions. This innovative approach helps the Department to forge new partnerships with outside bodies, including LEAs and schools, which in turn informs policy making.


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