Plans to overhaul teacher training and school funding will be set out later today as part of the government’s education White Paper.
Schools will get tough new targets for achievement in the White Paper, which is expected to lay out sweeping proposals covering teacher training, qualifications and assessment, inspections, league tables and funding.
On the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme last weekend, Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "We want to get rid of modularisation of GCSEs. Instead of GCSEs being split into bite-sized elements we think it’s important that at the end of the GCSE course the student should be examined on everything they have learnt at one time… we’ll have fewer exams but a concentration on a more rigorous approach at age 16. I think that balance between a greater emphasis on standards but also greater freedom for teachers to teach and less time and money being spent on examinations is a good thing."
Meanwhile, shadow education secretary Andy Burnham MP feared that this would create a "competitive, fragmented and segregated schools system… There will be winners but there will also be losers. I don’t think education has to be like that. I want to have all schools as good schools and I’m not convinced Michael Gove has a plan to make that a reality," he said.
We will keep you updated as we get more information.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/24/schools-targets-education-white-paper