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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 February 2006-UK Government: Education and Inspection Bill: Higher standards, better schools for all(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Education and Skills Secretary Ruth Kelly will today publish (at 3.30pm) the Education and Inspection Bill that delivers the radical reforms needed to further drive up standards in our schools, especially in deprived areas. Measures to support stronger partnership, new curriculum entitlements, better discipline, a powerful strategic role for local authorities and turning around failing schools are at the heart of the Bill.
The Bill will provide a guarantee that primary legislation will ensure no return to selection by ability, announcing a series of measures to toughen up school admissions practices, including a bar on interviewing, a more robust status for the School Admissions Code of Practice and greater powers for Admission Forums.
Ruth Kelly said: "In the last eight years we have seen a transformation in the quality of education in this country. Excellent standards of teaching, radical reform and record levels of investment have gone hand in hand to deliver 5,800 more good or excellent primary and secondary schools today than in 1997, record test and examination results, and fewer failing schools.
"But still more than 40 per cent of children do not get 5 A*-C GCSEs, so we cannot afford to stand still.
"Specialist schools...
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