Five education secretaries and one scrapped schools bill later, here’s what we could find out about what remains of the government’s ‘Opportunity for All’ white paper. John Dickens reports …
Policy: By 2030, 90 per cent of primary pupils will meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, up from 65 per cent in 2019.
Progress: Ministers are even further away from when they started at key stage 2, with the percentage of children leaving primary at the expected standard falling to 59 per cent last year.
Policy: An “ambition” to increase the national GCSE average grade in English language and maths from 4.5 in 2019, to 5 by 2030.
Progress: The allowance of some grade inflation last year led to the average maths GCSE score rising from 4.53 in 2019 to 4.72, while the average English grade rose from 4.96 to 5.17.
