Details from the Cambridge Primary Review's invitational seminar on 1 April:

At the seminar we discussed a draft set of post-election policy priorities for primary education. The priorities have now been firmed up in light of these discussions and are presented in the attached briefing paper. The briefing will be released tomorrow (Tuesday) and is being sent to party leaders, their education spokespersons and a large number of education organisations and stakeholders, both official and independent.  We expect the briefing to be covered in the Education Guardian tomorrow and the TES on Friday, but on this occasion we are not actively seeking - and indeed do not want - the kind of media exposure that attended the CPR's interim and final reports. 

There was some discussion at the seminar about the possibility of presenting the priorities as a letter to the press with multiple signatories, but after considering the pros and cons of this approach we didn't take it further and the attached paper goes out in the name of the CPR only.

You will note that the preamble to the list of priorities addresses the question that we discussed at the end of the seminar. That is, given that one of the top priorities is to re-empower teachers and re-balance the relationship between government and schools, how do we present the list in a way which doesn't imply that reform remains a matter for government alone? 

If you'd like hard copies of the briefing, please contact Julia Flutter - jaed100@cam.ac.uk. Otherwise, feel free to download, copy and/or forward the briefing as you see fit.