14-18 - A New Vision for Secondary Education

by Lord Kenneth Baker

Sir Mike Tomlinson, Professor Alan Smithers, Professor Robert B. Schwartz, Andrew Halls, David Brandon-Bravo, David Harbourne, and Nigel Wyatt

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Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single, narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16. From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging interests...Read more
  • ISBN10 178093615X
  • ISBN13 9781780936154
  • Publish Date 24 January 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Academic