Fair Education Alliance Report Card Manchester Launch

The Fair Education Alliance would like to invite you to the Manchester launch of the Fair Education Alliance’s second report examining educational inequality across England, on Tuesday 14 June 2016.

The Fair Education Alliance was launched in June 2014 and is a coalition of over 55 of the UK’s leading organisations from business and the third sector. Its aim is to work towards ending the persistent achievement gap between young people from our poorest communities and their wealthier peers.

The Alliance’s second Report Card, released in April 2016, looks at where things currently stand across the five Fair Education Impact Goals: where we’ve made progress since the last report, where things are going well, and where there needs to be improvement. The report also investigates where there are pockets of best practice that should be scaled up, and where there are policy changes that need to happen.

The launch event will feature a keynote speech from Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Lemn Sissay, and a presentation of the Report Card by Fair Education Alliance Director, Lewis Iwu. There will also be a Q&A session with a panel including:

• Nick Bent, co-founder of the Tutor Trust
• Chloe Spencer, ReachOut Manchester Director
• Tarun Kapur CBE, Chief Executive and Academy Principal the Dean Trust
• Stephanie Lee, Head of Widening Participation and Outreach University of Manchester
• Kelsey Dumville, Volunteer at City Year

The agenda for the evening is as follows:

6:00pm Arrival – Refreshments and networking

6:30pm Welcome by Julian Skyrme, Director for Social Responsibility University of Manchester

6:40pm Keynote speech from Lemn Sissay

7:00pm Presentation of Report Card by Lewis Iwu

7:10pm Panel Q&A

7:40-8:30pm Drinks and networking

We hope that you will be able to join us,

The FEA team.