ABSTRACT
In 2004, David Miliband, then Schools Standards Minister, put ‘Personalised Learning’ at the heart of the UK government’s vision for education, defining it as ‘high quality teaching based on sound knowledge of each child’s needs’ and emphasising that there must be,
high expectation of every child, given practical form by high quality teaching based on a sound knowledge and understanding of each child’s needs. It is not individualised learning where pupils sit alone at a computer. Nor is it pupils left to their own devices – which too often reinforces low aspirations.
(Miliband, 2004, p. 3)