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Brown outlines education vision | Brown outlines education vision |
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Gordon Brown has announced a drive to raise aspiration and achievement among children and to eradicate failure from England's schools. | Gordon Brown has announced a drive to raise aspiration and achievement among children and to eradicate failure from England's schools. |
The Prime Minister said councils would be encouraged to use new powers to intervene in failing schools. | The Prime Minister said councils would be encouraged to use new powers to intervene in failing schools. |
Britain needed to do more to close the achievement gap between children from different backgrounds, he said. | Britain needed to do more to close the achievement gap between children from different backgrounds, he said. |
And he announced plans to overhaul the apprenticeship system to make training more widely available. | And he announced plans to overhaul the apprenticeship system to make training more widely available. |
Minimum standards in England's schools would be raised over the next five years, with all schools needing to have 30% of their pupils achieving five high grade GCSEs by 2012-13, the prime minister announced. | Minimum standards in England's schools would be raised over the next five years, with all schools needing to have 30% of their pupils achieving five high grade GCSEs by 2012-13, the prime minister announced. |
Schools which failed to meet that target could face being taken over by interim management boards, or by other successful schools including independent schools, or being turned into academies. | |
"We can no longer tolerate failure," he said. | |
He outlined his vision for education: "No longer acceptable for any school to fail its pupils, no longer acceptable for young people to drop out of education without good qualifications without us acting. | |
"No more toleration of second best in Britain - no more toleration of second best for Britain." | |
Mr Brown talked of the need for greater parental engagement with schools and children's learning. | |
That was the "single biggest determinant" of a child's achievement at school, he said. |