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<p>This Government is determined to deliver an education system that works for everyone
and ensures that all pupils – regardless of background, ethnicity or gender – have
the opportunity to achieve their full potential. We are therefore unapologetic in
setting high expectations for what all pupils will achieve.</p><p> </p><p>Our curriculum
and qualifications reforms will ensure that pupils receive a rigorous academic education
that prepares them for further study and ultimately success in employment. Our new
performance measures focus attention on the academic progress pupils make throughout
secondary school, as well as on GCSE attainment.</p><p> </p><p>We are encouraging
schools to help pupils develop essential qualities that underpin success in education
and beyond, such as resilience, perseverance and self-control.</p><p> </p><p>Disadvantaged
pupils attract the pupil premium, which is providing schools with £2.5bn of additional
funding in the current financial year alone to raise the attainment of eligible pupils.</p><p>
</p><p>We are continuing to strengthen apprenticeships and technical education routes
in partnership with industry, so that young people have a wider range of high-quality
education and training options which will equip them with the skills employers need
and value.</p><p> </p><p>We are also equipping young people to make informed decisions
on the education, training and employment options open to them. We are investing £90m
over this Parliament to ensure all young people have access to high-quality careers
advice – through the work of the Careers & Enterprise Company and a business mentoring
programme for young people at risk of underachieving or dropping out of education</p><p>
</p><p>In addition, we recently consulted on a number of measures designed to increase
the number of good school places – including allowing the creation of new selective
schools, lifting the cap on faith admissions and further drawing on the capacity and
expertise of the universities and independent schools. In considering these proposals
we are keen to understand how we can open up access to good school places for all
pupils – particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. We are currently analysing
the submissions to the consultation and plan to publish a response in the spring.</p>
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