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14-18 - A New Vision for Secondary Education
Hardcover
$120.00
By Kenneth Baker, Mike Tomlinson (Contribution by), Alan Smithers (Contribution by), Robert B. Schwartz (Contribution by), Andrew Halls (Contribution by), David Brandon-Bravo (Contribution by), David Harbourne (Contribution by), Nigel Wyatt (Contribution by)
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Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single, narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16. From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should extend only to the age of 14 and that t...