Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that he is changing the education system to return to more traditional educational values. He plans to aid students to achieve much higher results at Primary and GCSE level in both English and Mathematics.
With many students still not achieving a Level 4 in National Curriculum tests in Primary Schools and at least 5 A*-C grades at GCSE, Gove plans to bring in a higher standard of Headteachers to push the students at struggling schools to achieve these targets. Other plans to achieve higher grades in schools include:
- extra funding to allow struggling schools to be taken over by successful heads
- improve the quality of teacher training
- to give teachers aptitude tests when entering the profession
- give teachers a greater control over the material they teach
- increase the salaries for the teachers whose classes are receiving better grades
- make more bursaries available to teachers to pursue masters degrees or other postgraduate qualifications to further knowledge of their subjects
- remove the current GCSE structure of frequent modules, which will be replaced with a single exam at the end of two years
- more plans to encourage academy-style independence to more school
- persuade people who have had successful careers elsewhere (eg. ex-servicemen) to go into teaching via the TeachNext Scheme
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