From the Guardian’s Bob Slavin: Which? doctor: “This month Slavin starts as founding director of York’s £11m Institute for Effective Education (IEE). The idea is to try to take the politics out of education policy by providing the bottom line in research on what works and what doesn’t. “The issue of evidence-based reform is the only really fundamental way forward in education. It transformed medicine, it transformed agriculture, it transformed technology. I don’t know why that shouldn’t be the case in education,” he says.”