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Access and Achievement Expert Panel
16 Jul 2012
Ofsted today announced details of the Expert Panel that will look into Access and Achievement issues to inform a major report to be published next year. The review, announced last month, will focus on the issues facing deprived communities and will aim to provide radical new solutions to what are long standing and deep seated problems.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, said:
'In too many areas the quality of educational provision isn’t improving fast enough, and the gap in educational outcomes between the richest and the poorest isn’t closing. A third of all pupils leave primary school without being secure in reading, writing and mathematics, rising to more than 40 per cent of the most deprived pupils. In secondary schools, a quarter of a million children do not achieve the benchmark 5 A* to C grades at GCSE, including English and maths and of the children entitled to free school meals, two thirds were below this benchmark. If this country is to compete economically in the global marketplace, and if we’re going to create a cohesive society, then education has got to be top of the agenda.
'The purpose of the panel is to bring some of the finest minds in education together to challenge the established structures. Just because systems worked in the past does not mean that they will work in the future. The panel will use their experiences, expertise and knowledge to help us to develop radical ideas to end the cycle of underachievement in too many parts of the country. Young people only get one chance to get the best possible education and Ofsted, and others, need to do much more to make sure this happens.'
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Access and Achievement Expert Panel
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