Industry trends

Key Industry trends

What is driving the education industry?

Growing Emphasis on reducing Educational INequalities

Increasing urgency to tackle widening educational inequalities

Widening educational inequalities between the rich and the poor

Widening educational inequalities between the rich and the poor

Lower-income families continue to face financial hardship post-covid and will be forced to limit discretionary spending, limiting their education opportunities

Disposable income share by quintile group for FYE 2021 in UK, ONS

Widening educational inequalities between the rich and the poor

Additionally, current school choice system in the UK favours children from higher-income families

High-performing schools are often over-subscribed

Parents submit an ordered list of preferences for schools

Only high-income families can afford to live nearer to the good schools due to high house prices around the area

Distance is used as a criteria of determining who gets into the oversubscribed schools

Academic quality of school attended, by disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children, Sutton Trust

Widening educational inequalities between the rich and the poor

Underqualified teachers in deprived schools

Unequal funding across North and South areas

Teacher qualifications by Free School Meal (FSM) quintile of school, SMF

• The most affluent quintile schools have more highly qualified teachers
• Deprived schools tend to be less supportive of new teachers, with less high-quality mentoring, less supportive colleagues and tougher teaching assignments

Funding received in schools per student in 2022, Child of the North All-party Paliarment Group

On average, students in London received

9.7%

more than students in the North

Increasing urgency to tackle widening educational inequalities

Urgency to align with UN SDGs

Widening inequalities in educational outcomes

House of Lords Library, 2022

Increasing Importance to support teachers

Peer-to-peer collaboration between teachers is key

Evolving role of educators

Evolving role of educators

Teachers have now become facilitators of learning instead of providers of knowledge

As technology becomes more embedded in the teaching process, students have access to any possible information and spoon-feeding is no longer viable

It is crucial to empower teachers, suppory them and invest in continuous professional development of teachers so that they can be more prepared for the 21st century classroom

Educators play an important role in guiding students to adopt necessary 21st century skills relevant to real life such as developing higher order thinking skills, effective communication and collaboration

Classrooms are no longer teacher-centered but child-centered and gives more importance to students and their learning

Peer-to-peer collaboration between teachers is key

Collaboration between teachers using technology have been highlighted to help them improve pedagogy

Teachers will be teaching each other, there will be a lot more professional development with peer-to-peer resource sharing.

Lord Jim Knight, former schools minister, edtech adviser and life peer

• A study conducted by Goddard and Goddard (2007) found that 47 schools in a large urban school district were positively influenced by teacher collaboration
• When teachers have opportunities to collaborate professionally, they build upon their distinctive experiences, pedagogies, and content to enhance their lessons

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Hungary

Countries such as

dedicate a fair amount of time to activities for teacher collaboration (OECD, 2004)

Increasing Use of technology in education

Edtech industry is growing globally

Edtech industry is growing globally

Forecasted expenditure on education technology increasing more than from 2018-2025

5 times

Statista, 2023

Edtech industry is growing globally

Digital textbooks

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

65%

of 15-year-old students in OECD countries were in schools whose principals agreed that teachers had the technical and pedagogical skills to integrate digital devices in instruction

Online lessons/courses

54%

of 15-year-old students in OECD countries were in schools where an effective online learning support platform was available

Learning Management Systems

Reduced Inequalities

Goal 10

Reduce inequalities within and among countries

Video clip from: Changing Role of a Teacher in 21st Century | Dawn Taylor | TEDxMountAbuSchool, 11 April 2022

• 18 new attendance hubs across 6 regions, bringing the total to 32 and will see nearly 2,000 schools helped to tackle persistent absence

• With an investment of up to £15 million, over 3 years, the programme will provide direct intensive support to more than 10,000 persistent and severely absent pupils who usually come from disadvantaged families

Quality Education

Goal 4

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

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Video clip from: Changing Role of a Teacher in 21st Century | Dawn Taylor | TEDxMountAbuSchool, 11 April 2022

• Education funding reaches almost £60 billion in 2024/25 - its highest ever level in real terms

• Includes additional funding for both disadvantaged pupils and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

• Children from disadvantaged families attend schools with a much lower proportion of children achieving the benchmark of at least 5 A* to C grades.

• The gap in the academic quality of school attended between poor and non-poor pupils averages at 6.9 percentage points. To be clear this is a very substantial effect.

• Leads to clustering of students from high-income families in high-performing schools and students from low-income families in the less established schools (IFS, 2022)

• Inequality is reflected through the North-South education divide, where students in the North are "left behind"