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17/09/2012
Gove To Reveal GCSE Reform Plan
Reforms of the GCSE exam system in England will see just one single end-of-course exam, fewer top grades and a separate exam board for each subject.
Has plans for the reform are confirm by education secretary Michael Gove, pupils who started secondary school this year will be the first to take the revised exams in 2017.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised that the changes would "give parents confidence" in the exams taken by their children.
But Labour's shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, attacked the plans as "totally out of date, from a Tory-led government totally out of touch with modern Britain".
"Schools do need to change as all children stay on in education to 18 and we face up to the challenges of the 21st Century. We won't achieve that with a return to the 1980s," said Mr Twigg.
The reform plan will be announced to MPs later on Monday afternoon.
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Has plans for the reform are confirm by education secretary Michael Gove, pupils who started secondary school this year will be the first to take the revised exams in 2017.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised that the changes would "give parents confidence" in the exams taken by their children.
But Labour's shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, attacked the plans as "totally out of date, from a Tory-led government totally out of touch with modern Britain".
"Schools do need to change as all children stay on in education to 18 and we face up to the challenges of the 21st Century. We won't achieve that with a return to the 1980s," said Mr Twigg.
The reform plan will be announced to MPs later on Monday afternoon.
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