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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what assessment they have made of the notice and information given to schools, academies, and sixth-form and further education colleges on the need to introduce new programmes of study to enable students to benefit from the extra time available from raising the school leaving age in September 2013.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/92790/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "This Government has made a historic commitment to address long-standing concerns about the literacy and maths skills of young people in England. The Department for Education is reforming the English and mathematics curriculum and qualifications to be academically rigorous, and to keep pace with universities\u2019 and employers\u2019 demands. We want to make sure that young people have access to English and mathematics education that set expectations matching those in the highest performing countries.<\/p>
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The Department is also reforming A and AS levels in English and mathematics to make sure they properly equip students for higher education. Students will start to study the new A levels in English from September 2015. Reformed A and AS levels in mathematics will be introduced from September 2016.<\/p>
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New level 3 Core Maths qualifications are currently being piloted and will become available from 2015. These new qualifications encourage students to continue the study of mathematics post-16. The Government is providing £20 million in 2014-16 to support piloting and to build capacity to teach the new Core Maths qualifications in schools, sixth form colleges and further education colleges.<\/p>
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From 2015, students will be able to study new GCSEs in English and mathematics. These reformed qualifications will provide greater assurance of strong English, literacy and mathematics.<\/p>
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In July 2012, the Government announced that students that did not hold at least a C grade GCSE would have to continue to study English and mathematics from age 16 to 18 or the institution they attend would lose funding. More recently, Minister Hancock announced that, from September 2015, students holding a D grade in English and/or mathematics would have to take a GCSE course only rather than an alternative stepping stone qualification.<\/p>
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Since 2012, the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have been working with the sector and stakeholders to prepare for the expansion of post-16 GCSE teaching. A two-year, £30 million further education workforce package has been introduced, focusing on training existing teachers and recruiting more graduates to teach English and mathematics at GCSE level.<\/p>
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The Ofsted Report \u201cTransforming 16-19 education and training\u201d evaluates progress in the implementation of 16-19 study programmes immediately following their introduction in September 2013. Inevitably, it will take time for such far-reaching changes to take effect.<\/p>
The Department for Education introduced changes to the 16-19 curriculum to ensure that all students had clear education and employment goals and that the subjects they studied, and other activity, contributed towards these. Students who had not already achieved a GCSE in maths and English were also required to continue to study these subjects.<\/p>
Ofsted\u2019s report reveals that most schools and colleges had made changes, particularly in relation to English and maths.<\/p>
Schools and colleges were notified of the 16-19 Study Programme requirements in the termly Departmental emails sent to all head teachers and chairs of governors. Further communications will emphasise how these changes will affect Ofsted inspection grades.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what is their response to the Ofsted survey Transforming 16 to 19 Education and Training <\/i>(September 2014), in particular its statement on the absence of \"evidence of the transformational \u2018step change\u2019 intended with the introduction of the 16 to 19 programmes\" and its observation that \"many of the school and academy leaders....were unaware of the full extent of the requirements of the study programmes\".", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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