They will be allowed to convert into semi-independent academies as early as September this year if the Tories win, giving them more power over the curriculum, qualifications, staff, budgets and admissions.
These schools will be allowed to convert into semi-independent academies as early as September this year if the Tories win, giving them more power over the curriculum, qualifications, staff, budgets and, most crucially, admissions.
We now have the worst of all worlds: the hierarchy is steeper than ever but diversity that did exist within the non-selective system is being ironed out as schools are forced into chains and obliged to conform on everything from curriculum, qualifications and culture, to the dress codes of pupils and staff.
Hardip Begol, director of assessment, curriculum, qualifications and accountability at DfE, said Alam had engaged in conduct "aimed at undermining the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths or beliefs".
"The coalition government is making policy decisions about academies, the national curriculum, qualifications and even teacher training provision.
A former permanent secretary at the Department for Education, Sir David says there should be no more major changes to the curriculum, qualifications or structural changes to schools during the course of the next Parliament.
The admission requirements, training duration, contents of the training curriculum, qualifications awarded, and clinical duties for CPNs, CPOs, and CMHOs are detailed in Table 1.
It's largely due to the toxic mix of accountability pressures, curriculum and qualification reform, compounded by mixed messages from the government".
"I would hope by the end of a five-year parliament there was a consensus about creating a 14-19 curriculum and qualification framework, and I would not be surprised, or indeed saddened, if that meant in a decade's time we were beginning to phase out GCSEs".
· Geoff Stanton is a researcher into post-14 curriculum and qualifications.
