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Baroness Perry of Southwark

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House of Lords: Governance
Tuesday 20th January 2015

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I am not entirely sure. I believe that it is next year, but I will come back to the noble Baroness on that.

Baroness Perry of Southwark Portrait Baroness Perry of Southwark (Con)
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Does my noble friend agree that the introduction of the new Progress 8 measure will enable every child to have a broad and balanced curriculum—much more so than in the past?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I agree entirely. We want every child to engage in a broad and balanced curriculum; Ofsted will inspect against that, and, as I have already said, many more options are now available through Progress 8. Previously we had what the shadow Secretary of State described as the “great crime” of the C/D borderline; we will now value many more subjects widely and will rate Bs to As and Es to Ds much more highly than we have in the past.

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