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David Blunkett said secondary shool standards would take longer than primary to improve
School standards ‘will not rise for a decade’

It could take a decade for the government’s reforms to improve standards in England’s secondary schools, David Blunkett has argued. The former education secretary said changes to nursery and primary schools had raised the results of national tests in the late 1990s. During an interview with his successor, Estelle Morris, on the Teachers’ TV channel,… Read more »

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A report by the education watchdog said one in four schools were failing to teach citizenship properly
Ofsted: Schools failing citizenship test

A quarter of secondary schools are failing to teach citizenship to a sufficient standard, a report by education watchdog Ofsted warned today. Compulsory citizenship lessons – which cover subjects including law, local government structures, the electoral system and human rights – were introduced for 11 to 16-year-olds in 2002 as part of a government drive… Read more »