Amendments proposed to the Education and Inspections Bill - continued	House of Commons
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Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

258

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     24,     at end insert—

    '(8)   In relation to the teaching of each core subject for the fourth key stage, a maintained school shall make provision for—

(a)	accelerated or enriched course of study designed to stretch higher ability pupils within the school;

(b)	courses of study for pupils of lower ability designed to reduce differences between the attainment of lower and average ability pupils.

    (9)   The National Curriculum for England may specify programmes of study in relation to the courses of study under subsection (8).'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

239

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     28,     leave out from 'in' to 'entitlement' in line 29 and insert 'one or more subjects within each'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

84

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     29,     leave out 'four'.

   

Mr Edward Leigh

410

Clause     61,     page     43,     leave out line 36.

   

Mr Edward Leigh

411

Clause     61,     page     43,     leave out line 37.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

82

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     40,     at end insert—

'(aa)

sciences, comprising—

(i)

biology,

(ii)	chemistry, and

(iii)

physics,'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

83

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     40,     at end insert—

'(aa)

English literature (comprising only that subject),'.

   

Mr Edward Leigh

412

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     41,     leave out '(comprising only that subject)' and insert—

'(ii)

information and communication technology,'.

   

Mr Edward Leigh

413

Clause     61,     page     43,     leave out lines 42 to 47.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

240

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     46,     after 'State', insert ', which shall include standard Mandarin, modern standard Arabic and Castilian Spanish,'.

   

Mr Edward Leigh

372

Clause     61,     page     43,     line     47,     at end insert ', and

(e)	classical Latin and Greek'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

241

Clause     61,     page     44,     line     11,     after 'him' insert 'to a suitable standard'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

242

Clause     61,     page     44,     line     15,     after 'him' insert 'to a suitable standard'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

243

Clause     61,     page     44,     line     32,     at end insert—

    '(7)   In this section "suitable standard" means the course of study and the teaching of that course shall be of a standard which should or ought to enable a student of average ability to achieve grades A*, A, B or C at GCSE.'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

259

Clause     61,     page     44,     line     32,     at end insert—

    '(1A)   The set of qualifications specified in subsection (1B) are hereby approved under section 98 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 for the purposes of section 96 of that Act.

    (1B)   The set of qualifications referred to in subsection (1A) are the International General Certificate of Secondary Education in any subject awarded by—

(a)	University of Cambridge International Examinations,

(b)	Edexcel International Examinations, or

(c)	any other awarding body that the Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe.'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

244

Clause     61,     page     44,     line     35,     at end insert 'and'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

254

Clause     61,     page     44,     leave out lines 37 to 43.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

245

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     3,     leave out from 'school' to end of line 6.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

246

Clause     61,     page     45,     leave out lines 7 to 11.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

229

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     12,     leave out 'in'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

247

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     16,     at end insert 'other than in the entitlement areas of geography, history and modern foreign languages.'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

248

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     26,     after 'areas', insert ', other than the entitlement areas of geography, history and modern foreign languages,'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

249

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     27,     after 'authority', insert 'or the governing body of a maintained school'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

250

Clause     61,     page     45,     line     32,     after 'authority', insert 'or the governing body of a maintained school'.

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Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

251

Clause     62,     page     47,     line     1,     leave out from 'area' to end of line 3.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

252

Clause     62,     page     47,     leave out lines 4 to 8.

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NEW CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 5

Curriculum requirements for first, second and third key stages

   

Sarah Teather
Greg Mulholland
Annette Brooke

NC44

To move the following Clause:—

'In section 84 of EA 2002 (curriculum requirements for first, second and third key stages), after subsection (3)(g), insert—

"(ga)

personal, social and health education,".'.

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Abolition of National Curriculum for England

   

Mr Edward Leigh

NC47

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   The National Curriculum for England is hereby abolished.

    (2)   All maintained schools shall have complete freedom over their curriculum.

    (3)   EA 2002 is amended as follows.

    (4)   In section 80 omit subsections (1)(b) and (3)(b).

    (5)   Omit sections 81 to 96.'.

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Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

260

Clause     64,     page     49,     line     26,     at end insert 'and

(c)	travel between—

(i)	schools at which they receive education or training, or

(ii)	institutions within the further education sector at which they receive education and training,

where the schools are making collaboration arrangements under section 88(4) of EA 2002.'.

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Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

253

Schedule     8,     page     185,     leave out lines 6 to 8.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

261

Schedule     8,     page     187,     line     38,     at end insert—

'(7)	All children or persons of sixth form age are eligible for the purposes of subsection (4)(c) of section 508B of EA 1996.'.

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Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

422

Schedule     9,     page     188,     line     10,     at end insert ', including (but not limited to)—

(a)   the admission forum for the area of the local education authority;

(b)   parents of children who already receive transport from the local education authority;

(c)   the governing body of any special school whose pupils might be affected by the scheme;

(d)   the governing body of any school with a religious character whose pupils might be affected by the scheme;

(e)   further education colleges; and

(f)   bus operators.'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

423

Schedule     9,     page     188,     line     10,     at end insert—

'(3)	The local education authority must publish a summary of responses to the consultation together with the authority's response to the consultation before a scheme may come into effect.'.

   

Mr David Willetts
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr John Hayes
Mr David Evennett

424

Schedule     9,     page     190,     line     28,     leave out from beginning to end of line 22 on page 192.

Prepared 27 Apr 2006