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Asked about the CBI’s comments on GCSE standards the PMS that the Government was as committed as the CBI to raising standards in secondary schools. The CBI was part of the consultation group for the Tomlinson report, looking at secondary education, which would be publishing its conclusions soon. The PMS noted that there had been improvements in standards. There were now more pupils emerging from secondary schools with better results than in 1997 and people were well aware of that. This did not mean that anybody was complacent about standards and the Government was as committed as anyone else to raising standards. Asked how their comments suggesting that more and more children were leaving school unable to read and write were not in conflict with this the PMS repeated that the Government’s aims were not in conflict with the CBI. One of the reasons the Tomlinson report was set up was to look at secondary education and how improvements could be made.

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The Economist had an interesting piece last week (on their web site at,
<a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3107032">http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3107032</a>
but subscribers-only, sadly) pointing out the important fact that "… educational results do generally improve as countries get richer." As the economy grows, we should expect exam results to improve. They don’t get any closer to the answer to the question, "yes, but by how much?", of course.
Comment by Chris Lightfoot — 27 Aug 2004 on 1:19 am | Link

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