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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

HOW DID WE GET HERE?. Gallagher & Smith Sept. 2000 Burns Report Oct. 2001 Report on Consultation Oct. 2002. Key Consultation Messages. Support for high achievement Concern about low achievement Demand for change Focus on needs of the child as a learner;

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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  1. HOW DID WE GET HERE? • Gallagher & Smith Sept. 2000 • Burns Report Oct. 2001 • Report on Consultation Oct. 2002

  2. Key Consultation Messages • Support for high achievement • Concern about low achievement • Demand for change • Focus on needs of the child as a learner; • Transfer Tests should be abolished;

  3. Pupil Profiles; • Academic selection/informed election; • Common curriculum to age 14; • Choiceof curricular options at age 14; • Flexibility; • Co-operation and collaboration; • Local Solutions

  4. Academic Selection • Majority primary schools against • Grammar schools for • Secondary schools against • Majority education partners against • Majority Household Responses for • Political parties divided

  5. Way Forward • Last Transfer Test Nov 2004 (M McG) • End Tests “as soon as practicable” (JK) • Discussions on way forward • Establishment of Working Group

  6. Remit of Working Group “To take account of the responses to the consultation on the Burns Report, including the diversity of views on academic selection, and provide advice on options for future arrangements for post-primary education.”

  7. The advice should provide for: • Development of alternative transfer procedures; • Development of a Pupil Profile to inform parental and pupil choice; • Access for all young people to a broader curriculum providing greater choice;

  8. Flexible arrangements that can meet the developing needs of young people; Greater co-operation and collaboration among schools and with the FE sector; Development of local arrangements that meet local needs, wishes and circumstances.

  9. The Working Group should also advise on: • Guiding principles and measurable outcomes for future post-primary arrangements; • Criteria for the development and assessment of proposals together with measures to encourage and support their development and implementation; • Outline arrangements for the planning and implementation of future post-primary arrangements.

  10. Development Package DE and DEL will make an additional £0.5m available to: • Support the development of a Pupil Profile; • Expand the range of vocational options including vocational GCSEs; • Expand existing pilots of on-line learning and assessment opportunities; • Develop models of collaboration among schools and between schools and FE colleges.

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