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Reza Schwitzer

As seen in: The Times, The i Paper, Schools Week, Civil Service World, FE Week, Local Government Chronicle, The Wonkhe Show
Covers:  Education policy, the civil service and wider government affairs.
Ex DfE and Public First. Now Director of Assessment Reform @AQA. Occasional mourner for Arsenal. Views own

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Reza Schwitzer’s Biography

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Reza brings over a decade of experience across education policy, strategy, communications and public sector delivery. He spent more than three years in senior leadership roles at AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance), most recently as Director of Assessment Reform.

Earlier in his career, Reza was Associate Director in the education practice at Public First and spent eight years in government, mainly in the Department for Education, where he worked on school funding, qualifications & ass…

Reza Schwitzer’s Journalist Portfolio

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Unintended Consequences in Local Government

Unintended Consequences in Local Government

A recent article by Ruth Lucas in SchoolsWeek was the first I've seen on a topic that needs more coverage tha…

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How to go from well intentioned to success with SEND reform

How to go from well intentioned to success with SEND reform

A readiness to readjust, sustained political focus and the capacity to deliver on goals are vital if Labour i…

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📜 What ministers want

📜 What ministers want

Reza Schwitzer, External Affairs Director at AQA, talks to Tom Hashemi.

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Policy changes can help save the civil service - but only if politics changes too

Policy changes can help save the civil service - but only if politics changes too

Policy solutions to fix the civil service aren't viable without political change

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How Labour can achieve 'parity of esteem' for less

How Labour can achieve 'parity of esteem' for less

The Labour government would do well to reconsider the DfE's default setting of pushing for structural reform …

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Levers of change: Ways that policymakers can shape the education system

Levers of change: Ways that policymakers can shape the education system

With a general election looming there is much debate in the world of education about the next government's de…

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Unintended Consequences in Local Government

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By Reza Schwitzer
| avencera.ai
A recent article by Ruth Lucas in SchoolsWeek was the first I've seen on a topic that needs more coverage than it's currently getting. OK, it's about local government re-organisation, but please don’t click away just yet… We know already that many local public services currently struggle with a lack of scale. In my career I've seen it particularly with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Children's Social Care (CSC), though there are other examples too.
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Policy changes can help save the civil service - but only if politics changes too

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By Reza Schwitzer, Lauren Crowley
| Civil Service World Verified
It seems almost everyone agrees that the civil service is struggling. Overcentralised, insular and stubborn, it is painted as an outdated mess – a fax machine in a world of computers. In government, both major parties have proposed policy solutions to fix this – including reducing headcount, creating new schemes to bring in outside innovators, and increasing collaboration with external experts.
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The public favours meritocracy when it comes to levelling up and university admissions

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By Reza Schwitzer, David Kernohan Verified, Jonathan Simons, Jim Dickinson Verified
| The Wonkhe Show Verified
Public opinion in this country has long been rooted in the importance of fair play and an implacable belief in the value of personal responsibility. On crime, for example, public opinion remains clear on the need to properly punish criminals. On economic policy, work must be seen to “pay”. And – famously – it was the idea of taking back personal control that played such a decisive role in our decision to leave the European Union. The same fundamental truth applies to education policy.
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