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Debate between Nick Boles and Jo Cox
Monday 25th April 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Boles Portrait The Minister for Skills (Nick Boles)
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I am happy to reassure my hon. Friend that the college would have a clear responsibility to ensure that those students were able to complete their A-levels at another high-quality institution, and I would be happy to work with him to ensure that it lives up to that responsibility.

Jo Cox Portrait Jo Cox (Batley and Spen) (Lab)
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Does the Secretary of State accept that all the evidence shows that being an academy is intrinsically neither good nor bad for a school’s performance? With expert opinion now lined up from the County Councils Network to the Bow Group, it is surely time to revisit this flawed plan to force schools to become academies against their will.

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