This news is about education in England and assessment system for children with learning problems.The education secretary, Michael Gove, has struck a conciliatory note over planned exam reforms in England which include a proposal to bring in a lower-level qualification for less able children. He thinks that a new reform in the evaluations of students with lower performance create a society of low expectations, so that students with learning deficits must adapt and work twice as hard compared to their peers. As a response to his statements, other ministers came out in defense of students, as there are some majeure force problems that necessarily need special tests. Gove said his proposed changes would "end the tiering of papers".
"We need to have higher expectations for all students." He criticised the division of GCSEs into two levels – higher papers and a foundation tier in which pupils can achieve a maximum of grade C. He also announced an acceleration of the academies programme, saying that every primary school in England that had been put in special measures or been given a notice to improve by Ofsted would become a sponsored academy.
Currently, 220 of the worst-performing primaries in the country are due to become academies. The new plan will affect more than 300 out of nearly 17,000 state primaries in England and Wales, the Department for Education said.
Gove said: "In the next year I want to extend our academies programme to tackle the entrenched culture of under-achievement in parts of the country where children are being failed."
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