Education and Skills - Fourth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 12 May 2003.
Contents
Terms of Reference
1 Summary
2 Introduction
Scope of the inquiry
Why does it matter?
3 Diversity in English
Secondary Education
Comprehensive schools
Selective schools
Faith schools
Independent schools
The new diversity
City Technology Colleges
and Specialist Schools
Academies
A Shifting landscape
of initiatives
4 Development of Government
policy
The 1997 inheritance
Specialist schools re-launched,
diversity discovered
Choice and diversity
Diversity and faith
Diversity Pathfinders
Specialist status for
all
5. Issues arising from
the evidence
Diversity redefined
Communities of schools:
how schools impact upon their neighbours
Diversity and standards
Measures of achievement
Measures of disadvantage
Separating the impact
of investment from specialism and other initiatives
School admissions
Selection by aptitude:
rationale and evidence?
Competition vs. collaboration
What matters most?
6. 28 November 2002:
Implications of the universal specialist model
Can the achievements
of the few be extended to the many?
7. Conclusions and recommendations
Formal minutes
Witnesses
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Wednesday 20 November 2002
Wednesday 27 November 2002
Wednesday 15 January 2003
Monday 20 January 2003
List of written evidence
List of unprinted written evidence
Written evidence
Reports from the Education and Skills Committee
since 2001
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