Professor Michael Barber is rightfully considered the leader of educational reform in the UK. In particular, he implemented a new approach to the content of education, related to the ability of students to apply their knowledge in practice (“competence-based approach”), as well as a number of projects in the field of centralization of education quality management. Professor Barber contributed to the introduction of a system for evaluating the performance of educational institutions based on "added quality". According to this system, the growth of achievements of each student (progress in learning) is evaluated, and the school as a whole is evaluated by the sum of the individual results of its students (in dynamics). In addition, as studies have shown falling literacy rates among students, Professor Barber has introduced a special literacy course in schools, which has significantly corrected the situation.

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Professor Michael Barber is currently Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister on Education, Health and social sphere. Works in the government building on Downing Street. His responsibilities include preparing programs and providing resources to enable the government, in collaboration with the current parliament, to address priorities relating to health, education, law enforcement and transport.

Until June 2001, Barber headed the Division of Standards and Efficiency in the Department of Education and Employment, and was the principal adviser to the head of the Department of School Standards. In this position, he was responsible for the implementation of the government's line in the field of school reform, in particular, for the implementation of large-scale programs designed to achieve improvement in the performance of each school. His responsibilities also included implementing the National Literacy Strategies program, working with dysfunctional schools, modernizing secondary education in big cities, and building a mechanism for terminating contracts with inefficient regional education authorities.

He was educated at Bootham School (York), Oxford and Georg August University in Göttingen (Germany). He has worked as a high school teacher in Watford and Zimbabwe. Moved to the position of research assistant in the National Association of Teachers. In 1989-1993 Headed the department of education of the association. He also served as chairman of the Hackney Borough Education Committee (London). He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham.

Since 1993, he has been a teacher of pedagogy and director of the School Success Center at Keele University. In 1995, he became Lecturer in Education Sciences and Vice-Chancellor for Educational Innovation at the Institute of Education at the University of London.

He led a number of major research projects, mainly related to the study of the effectiveness of school education, ways to improve the work of schools, as well as the political significance of education.

He has numerous publications in scientific journals and the press, and regularly speaks on radio and television on educational policy issues.

Short list of main publications:

• "Education and teachers' associations" ("Education and the Teacher Unions"), Cassell 1992;
• The Making of the 1944 Education Act, Cassell 1994;
• “State educational standard. Political Aspects” (“The National Curriculum: A Study in Policy”), KUP 1996;
• “A game of learning. Arguments for an Education Revolution” (“The Learning Game: Arguments for an Education Revolution”), Indigo 1997;
• How to achieve the impossible. How to do the Impossible: A Guide for Politicians with a Passion for Education, Institute of Education 1997;
• "A World Class Education Service for the 21st Century", IARTV 1999;
• Large-Scale Education Reform: A Work in Progress, University of Toronto, 2001.

On September 4, 2012, a participant in the APEC business summit delivered a lecture to students and teachers of the School of Pedagogy and the Ussuri branch of FEFU.

Sir Michael Barber, professor at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, chief educational adviser to the British company Pearson needs no introduction. He is known not only for his current work in international education research and training, driving innovation, and leading Pearson's strategies for education in the Third World, primarily in developing countries Oh. Mr. Barber is not only an authoritative analyst and theorist, but also a recognized practitioner - the author of the project and one of the leaders of the educational reform in Great Britain in the 1990s. This reform is considered one of the most successful attempts to introduce such a large-scale change in this area in the entire last century. The work of the scientist-reformer in the British Ministry of Education was so effective that he was asked to apply the accumulated experience to improve the functioning of other state institutions. The future Lord became an adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and headed the department for fulfilling campaign promises. At present, to his advice in matters social policy resorted to by the governments of more than 40 countries, including the United States and Russia, as well as major international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

While in Vladivostok as a participant in the business summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, Mr. Barber expressed a desire to visit the FEFU School of Pedagogy and speak to students and teachers. When asked what could interest a prominent British scientist in the problems of education in the Russian Far East and the views of future teachers and their teachers, Sir Michael replied that in a historical perspective, the role of a global leader is moving from the Atlantic region to the Asia-Pacific region. Education of the highest world standards is one of the keys to the success of the Pacific nations, and well-trained teachers are one of the keys to the future of education. Hence the interest in communicating with future teachers of Primorye.

Before the lecture, Mr. Barber and his head of staff, Katelyn Donnely, had a long conversation with the director of the School of Pedagogy and the Ussuri branch of FEFU, Professor S.V. Pishun and Deputy Director of the School of Pedagogy for Strategic Development G.A. Kapranov. The guests gave their hosts new book"Oceans of Innovation: the Atlantic, the Pacific, Global Leadership and the Future of Education", and the hosts to the guests - a collection published in two languages ​​(English and Russian) scientific works of Russian and foreign scientists, prepared by the FEFU School of Pedagogy together with the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Information Policy, as well as the representative office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Khabarovsk for the APEC summit.

Mr. Barber devoted his lecture to the theme of improving national education systems. The lecturer, in particular, named a number of conditions necessary, in his opinion, for the successful solution of this problem. The first of these is compliance with international standards, which includes studying the standards of education in other countries, creating a "transparent" database on our own schools and identifying the reasons for each child's lagging behind. The second is the dependence of the quality of the system on the people working in it. Careful selection of those who can become the best teachers, their excellent preparation, continuous improvement of skills and knowledge is necessary. The third aspect concerns the structure of the organization and the effectiveness of its management, whether it has a willingness to change and the power to control its budget. At the initiative of the British guest, the second half of the lecture was held in the form of a "question - answer". And there were a lot of questions from the audience, who were keenly interested in the topic: they were asked by both students and teachers. At the same time, some of the questions looked more like polemical speeches, which, obviously, was part of the plans of Mr. Barber, who gave detailed answers and willingly joined the discussion.

Having signed the book of honored guests, Mr. Barber went to Secondary School No. 25, where he not only met with the director, but also attended the lessons.

I.V. Varitsky.

Ordered to get results. How the implementation of reforms in the UK public services sector was ensured Michael Barber

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Title: Ordered to achieve a result. How the implementation of reforms in the UK public services sector was ensured
Author: Michael Barber
Year: 2007,2008
Genre: Management, recruitment, Popular about business, Foreign business literature, Foreign educational literature

About Michael Barber's book Ordered to Get Things Done. How was the implementation of reforms in the UK public services sector ensured?

The book is dedicated to the history of the transformation of public sector management in the UK, which took place in a short period of time and had a significant impact on the life of every Briton. The author - Sir Michael Barber during the second term of Tony Blair's tenure as Prime Minister of Great Britain (2001-2005) was responsible for the implementation of reforms in the field of public services. The narration is conducted in the genre of memoirs, which is in demand at all times, and the methodological core of the book is an appendix that combines documents that are a kind of instruction for implementing the political decisions of the government and consolidating the results achieved.

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