Schools and Young People
MYA have carried out reviews of school performance in Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, and Lincoln. They have evaluated the impact of Neighbourhood Renewal Funding on education in Bristol, the East Midlands and Lincoln City. Liz Cousins has evaluated the effectiveness of Bristol's Supplementary Schools and their links with mainstream education. Martin Yarnit and two associates designed City Learning Centres for Doncaster and Blackburn which are now in operation alongside four secondary schools.
Re-thinking the future of schooling has been a major theme of our work in recent years. With funding from the Edge Foundation and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, we worked with nine secondary schools to develop new approaches to active learning. The project demonstrated the potential of a new approach that deals with what young people learn as well as how they learn, and crucially involves them in shaping both.
The RSA's Charter for Education - http://www.thersa.org/projects/education/education-campaign/education-for-the-21st-century-a-charter - grew out of a series of discussions and seminars initiated by MYA, including the publication of the Smith Institute report, New Models of Schooling - http://www.smith-institute.org.uk/pdfs/schools.pdf. Edited by Martin Yarnit, other contributors include Andy Powell, Matthew Taylor, Valerie Bayliss, Tim Brighouse, Fiona Millar, Liz Cousins and Richard Pring.
Examples of work are displayed below.
Downloads
- Study of the effectiveness of the partnership between supplementary and mainstream schools in Bristol for Bristol City Council/Bristol NRF
- Incentives and Achievements Scheme, Bristol City Academy - the impact of a ground-breaking NRF project to drive up achievement in inner city Bristol for Bristol City Academy Project
- Building Schools for a Transformation - Fishing Rods, Schools and Regeneration
- Family Learning and Employment Project (FLEP) Manchester
- School Support Projects in Nottingham: report for DfES/NRU, 'Interventions Outside the Classroom: Focusing DfES Resources on Failing Communities'
- School Support Projects in Nottingham: report for DfES/NRU, 'Interventions Outside the Classroom: Focusing DfES Resources on Failing Communities'
- Active Learning Schools: Proposal to the Smith Institute
- Schools and Neighbourhood Renewal leaflet (Part I) *
- Schools and Neighbourhood Renewal leaflet (Part II) *
- Schools and Neighbourhood Renewal A5 leaflet (Part I) *
- Schools and Neighbourhood Renewal A5 leaflet (Part II) *
- Accreditation of Community Languages in Bristol
* Leaflets are also available for Ashfield, Bolsover, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield and Nottingham on request by email.