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Create a National Council for Educational Excellence, bringing together business leaders, heads, teachers, parents and representatives from higher education and the voluntary sector, expected to be chaired by Gordon Brown.
Fundamental review of numeracy teaching.
Schools to have their own individual business partners.
Setting in “key subjects” such as maths, English, science and languages to become the norm.
Proposals for all-age (primary and secondary) and “studio” schools.
Ofsted to be asked to “consider raising the bar” on behaviour.
Pledge to stamp out bullying, in and outside schools.
Training and retraining to help teachers “become expert tutors and subject specialists”.
Teach Next programme to encourage talented mid or late career professionals to move into teaching.
Expansion of Teach First, a similar scheme aimed at new graduates.
Every school to work directly with other schools and arts, cultural and sporting communities in their area.
Individual schools to have their own university or college partners.
More joint working between state and private schools to raise standards.
All secondary pupils to have access to after-school small group tuition
Pilot of learning credit for pupils in low income families to spend on “extra provision”.
Aspiration to raise combined public and private investment in education to 10 per cent of national income.
Open-ended goal to raise state school funding from £5,500 per pupil “towards” the £8,000 enjoyed by private pupils in 2005/06.
Possibility of making it easier for universities and colleges to sponsor academies by reducing the required cash contributions.
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