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Along with the think tank Reform, AQA is co-hosting two events at the Labour and Conservative conferences this year.

At a time of great change in education, with major qualifications and curriculum reforms, the focus will be on the lessons to be learned from previous governments about the difference between policy aspiration and implementation.

The event at Labour conference comes at a time when Labour is reviewing its policies as part of a two-year process. Labour's shadow education secretary Andy Burnham will reflect on the recent past and look to the policy agenda for the next few years.

At the Conservative conference Graham Stuart, chair of the Education Select Committee, will consider what history tells us about the various attempts at education reform that have taken place over the last 25 years, and what the government needs to reflect on as it embarks on the Curriculum Review and qualifications reform.

Labour

Tuesday 27 September 2011
18.00-19.00hrs
Reform & AQA

Learning lessons: Government's role in qualification reform

Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Andrew Hall, Chief Executive, AQA,
Professor Jannette Elwood, School of Education, Queen’s University, Belfast

ACC Convention Centre, Hall 13

Conservative

Monday 3 October 2011
17.45hrs
Reform & AQA

Delivering Qualification Reform: What does history teach us?

Speakers : Graham Stuart MP, Chair - Education Select Committee; Russell Hobby, general secretary, NAHT, Andrew Hall, Chief Executive – AQA,

Radisson Edwardian Hotel : Pankhurst Suite