CLCs and BSF Research...?

I have often said that BSF (Building School for the Future) needs a decent research budget of around 3-4% - what other £60bn industry has zero research - and at a time of such change?

But there is wonderful national network of City learning Centres - and each one could (indeed often are) tasked with testing new learning approaches and engaging schools in the opportunity to try them out. If the CLCs were Research Learning Centres (RLCs) and tied much more closely into both the BSF and the 14-19 Skills agenda, then we would have really have fulfilled a big need.