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 14 July 2004.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Context
Good schools
Historical context
2 The school admissions
process
The School Admissions and Appeals Codes of
Practice
The status of the Codes
New developments in the 2003 School Admissions
Code of Practice
Guidance vs regulation
Admissions arrangements
Oversubscription criteria
Looked after children—children in public
care
Medical/social grounds for admission
Siblings
Interviews
Order and clarity?
Coordinated admission arrangements
The Pan-London Coordinated Admissions Project
Admissions forums
The Rights of the Child
3 The operation
of parental preference
Admissions arrangements: flexibility and
discretion
School performance tables
Choice and certainty
Admission by lottery?
Information for parents
Appeals and complaints
Appeals
Complaints
School admissions and appeals: evaluating
performance
Admissions and standards
Schools and their communities
4 Admission by
selection
Fair Banding
Selection by aptitude
Partial selection
Grammar schools: selection by general ability
5 Grammar school
ballots
Grouped ballots
Stand-alone ballots
Defining the electorate for grammar school
ballots
Petitions
The question
6 Conclusions
The Government's aims and objectives
Consistent policy making
The School Admissions Code of Practice
Parental preference, satisfaction and decision
making
Interviewing
Review Arrangements
Equity in school admissions
Information for parents
Children with SEN, disabilities and looked
after children
Admissions and standards
Cooperation and coordination
Selection
Appeals and complaints
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Reports from the Education and Skills Committee, Session 2003-04
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 58-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 58-II)
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