Centralised education system is failing pupils - Clegg
The Government’s ‘one size fits all’ approach to schools was accused on Monday of failing thousands of pupils by not providing a personalised education by Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg.
In a speech on 16 June, Nick Clegg set out plans to give schools greater freedoms, allowing them to tailor education to the needs of their pupils. He proposed:
· Scrapping mandatory national tests for seven and 14 year olds, with the money saved put into early assessment at age five and a huge expansion of one-to-one reading and numeracy tuition.
· Abolishing the overly prescriptive national curriculum and replacing it with a shorter document, and allowing all schools the curriculum freedoms currently enjoyed by Academies.
· Taking the politics out of the day-to-day management of schools by establishing an independent Education Standards Authority and slashing the size of the central government department by half.
· Changing targets so that schools are incentivised to address the needs of all pupils, not just those ‘borderline’ pupils.
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