More than a year ago, Sir Brian McMaster, in his report on excellence in the arts From Measurement to Judgment, pointed to a need to move away from top-down targets. More recently, BBC Reith lecturer Michael Sandel concluded that the era of market triumphalism now ended was far too dependent on assumptions that were "no better than a hunch".
Meanwhile, Ruth Lee, former head of policy at the Institute of Directors, tells us that "the public sector has been administered on a very basic, and misleading, interpretation of how the private sector operates. Education is not just a matter of hitting targets".
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