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Neil Kinnock/Education

Asked to comment on the Guardian interview with Neil Kinnock’s views on education reforms, the PMOS said that the NAO report yesterday set out our position on education very clearly. The number of failing schools had halved since 1997. Equally, however, there was a lot more still to be done to bring all schools up to the same standard. That was precisely why we had to apply the lessons of those schools that had become successful, and apply it in a way which brought all schools up to the same level. In terms of selection, the White Paper only altered the rules of submission in one way, which was to toughen up the adjudicators’ code by making their guidelines applicable for three years, rather than one year. In terms of the overall approach, it was to keep building on the success that we had had with City Academies and Trust schools, but equally, there was no change to the process.

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