Sally Burtonshaw is a Director in Public First’s Education Practice where she leads work on schools and post-18 education policy. She leads on Public First’s role in the Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools and the inquiry into White Working-Class Educational Outcomes. Her recent work also includes the future of state funded tutoring in schools and colleges, the attendance crisis, and a review of the collaborative outreach programme, Uni Connect.
Sally joined Public First from London Higher where she was Head of Policy, leading the Policy Team and representing over fifty London HEIs across a range of policy issues. Sally started her career at Dyke House College in Hartlepool and worked on access and participation policy at fair access charity, The Brilliant Club. She has an undergraduate degree from Durham and completed her PhD at UCL on the relationships between schools and universities in supporting progression to higher education.
Sally is a trustee of fair access charity, The Elephant Group and a member of the Independent Schools Inspectorate’s Education Advisory Forum.
