The Commission for Racial Equality is delaying its response to the consultation process as its new chairman, broadcaster Trevor Phillips, has yet to take up his post.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation summoned 130 or so education heavies (many of them grantees) to Seattle this week to attend the foundation's gala unveiling of its long-awaited education strategy, the culmination of an intense rethinking process spearheaded by the new education director, Vicki Phillips.