Showing posts with label Secondary Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secondary Schools. Show all posts

Monday, 14 October 2013

Education Statement by David Laws today on accountability, and destination measures

I was in the House today for the announcement by David Laws of the product of the
The full text of the statement is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/reforming-the-accountability-system-for-secondary-schools
Hansard will be live tomorrow as to the question I raised and his answers both to me and others.
The measures were welcomed across the House by Labour as well as the Coalition.
For me the key points were:
- a change to the present system of accountability discourages schools from focusing on the lowest attaining pupils.
- changes to floor standards to measure performance in a fairer way, to take into account a school intake
- more information to be published
- schools that overachieve will not have to do an Ofsted inspection the following year