What is the purpose of education?
01 December 2015
What is the purpose of education?
This is the question being asked by the Education Select Committee in the latest of a series of inquiries exploring the fundamentals of education in England.
This latest investigation will look at:
- The purpose of education for children of all ages
- What measures should be used to evaluate the quality of education against this purpose
- How well the current education system performs against these measures.
The Committee claims that approaching this basic question of the purpose of education will pave the way to examine whether our curriculum, qualifications, assessment and accountability systems are fit for purpose.
Alongside the formal call for evidence (deadline 25 January 2016), the Committee is encouraging views to be submitted on a new
online forum on the Committee’s website.