«L'éducation peut changer la vie et, pour moi, est une question de justice sociale que les chances d'apprentissage est donné à chaque enfant, où qu'ils vivent et quelle que soit leur origine sociale".
"La educación puede cambiar la vida y, para mí, es una cuestión de justicia social que las posibilidades de aprendizaje se da a cada niño, dondequiera que vivan y sea cual sea su condición social".
"Bildung kann Leben verändern und, zu mir, ist eine Frage der sozialen Gerechtigkeit, dass die Chancen für das Lernen für jedes Kind gegeben wird, wo auch immer sie und unabhängig von ihrer sozialen Herkunft leben können".
“L’educazione può cambiare la vita e, per me, è questione di giustizia sociale il fatto che la possibilità di istruirsi sia data a ciascun bambino, ovunque egli viva e qualunque sia la sua provenienza sociale”.
Foreword by the Secretary of State for Education Education has the power to transform lives and, for me, is a matter of social justice – extending opportunity to every child, wherever they live and whatever their background. Good schools and a well-educated population make our country stronger, fairer, wealthier and more secure, and higher standards in the classroom mean better life chances for everyone. Investing in our education system is an investment in the future of our nation.
In 2010, we inherited an education
system where 1 in 3 young people left primary school unable to read, write and
add up properly; where the number of young people studying core academic
subjects had halved in 13 years. Far too many schools were failing, and far too
many children were left out or left behind. Recent international assessments,
comparing the performance of our young people in 2011/2012 with their
international peers, have shown that our education standards have remained
static, at best, whilst other countries have moved ahead. Over the course of
the last Parliament we put in place bold reforms to drive up standards in schools.
We tackled grade inflation and restored the integrity of our qualifications,
introduced a new, more ambitious national curriculum, raised the bar for entry
to the teaching profession, and gave more freedom and autonomy to headteachers
and leaders through the academies and free schools programme.
Thanks to the hard work of
thousands of teachers, headteachers and governors, huge progress was made and
schools today are better than ever before. However, there still remain too many
pockets of educational nderperformance – areas where too many young people miss
out on the chance to benefit from the best possible education. This is deeply
unfair. So this white paper sets out our plans for the next five years,
building on and extending our reforms to achieve educational excellence
everywhere. Where great schools, great leaders and great teachers exist, we
will let them do what they do best – helping every child to achieve their full
potential.
Where they do not, we will step
in to build capacity, raise standards and provide confidence for parents and
children. We will put children and parents first. We will set high expectations
for every child, ensuring that there are no forgotten groups or areas and we
will focus on outcomes. All the policies in this white paper follow that
approach. To make sure that our plans are consistent and coherent, we have
followed five guiding principles, as set out in our departmental strategy
overview at Annex A. 3 We believe in supported autonomy: aligning funding,
control, responsibility and accountability in one place, as close to the front
line as possible, and ensuring that institutions can collaborate and access the
support they need to set them up for success. And we will work to build a system
which is responsive to need and performance, ensuring that institutions respond
to changing needs. Autonomy will be both earned and lost, with our most
successful leaders extending their influence, and weaker ones doing the
opposite. To put these principles into practice, we will move to a system where
every school is an academy. And to harness the opportunity that greater
autonomy provides, we will do more to ensure the profession has the tools it
needs to succeed: improving teacher training and qualifications and ensuring a
strong, diverse pipeline of leaders. In particular, we will place a sharp new
focus on areas of the country where standards are unacceptably low and where
chronic underperformance is compounded by a lack of capacity to improve.
It’s an ambitious programme, and an exciting one. But the prize of
securing educational excellence everywhere means it is the right thing to do. I
hope that teachers, leaders, governors and parents will join us in working to
improve standards across the country and will make the most of the
opportunities on offer. Children only
get one chance at education and every child deserves the opportunity to reach
their full potential. As a parent, I know only too well that childhood is
short, and when it comes to a child’s education, there’s no time to waste.
Access to a great education is not a luxury but a right for everyone.
Nicky Morgan MP Secretary of State for Education
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