View from the GOC: Review in full swing

Last October in an interview with Joe Ayling, I spoke about how new technology and societal demands are changing the way practitioners provide services – and that education needs to keep pace with that change.

Our Education Strategic Review is now in full swing, with a consultation currently open in which we’re asking about the concepts and principles that might underpin a new education system in the future.

I will be very disappointed if we only end up with a small change rather than a radical one. In particular, we want to free universities and colleges up to develop innovative, responsive and agile education programmes that can respond to a dynamic UK optical sector.