Our reforms also mean that academies and free schools can choose whether they want to follow this curriculum or develop their own, using the best ideas from anywhere in the world to help.
Teachers will also be trained to appropriately select freely available ICT tools that suit their own needs in terms of planning, implementing and sharing pedagogical ideas, managing their classroom and organizing the curriculum.
He and the board members assembled a lay staff with a broad skill set, he said, including businessmen, educators and public relations experts who could share ideas about everything from fund-raising strategies to curriculum standards.