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Drawing on and celebrating the launch of the recent publication Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences, this webinar introduces speakers from the four nations and authors from the book to debate the key challenges for education policy today. The book focuses mainly on England as, following an intense period of deregulation and marketisation of the school system and teacher education since 2010, practices in the education sector have become an international outlier. As the opening speaker, Sarah Younie will focus on policy development in England which is presented as a cautionary tale about how overzealous interventions by politicians has caused fragmentation and a loss of coherence in what was a successful system. She will outline a way forward for England to return to a coherent and stable education system with managed innovation, high quality CPD and teacher education, and a leading-edge curriculum preparing learners for the 21st century. The proposal is based on the setting up of a National Education Board called provisionally, “Education England”, with decisions arrived at through decision making through consensus between the major political parties, educational stakeholders and others. The contributions by Graham Donaldson from Scotland, Tom Crick from Wales and Paul McFlynn from Northern Ireland will draw on their experiences of recent national education policy development prior to opening up a wider discussion amongst the participants.